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How will this effect video backgrounds like Airbnb used to have?
by filleokus 9y ago
How will this effect video backgrounds like Airbnb used to have?
- ohazi 9y agoI hope it breaks them. What a spectacular waste of bandwidth and energy.
- whytaka 9y agoAgreed. There's a concept that the cheaper and more plentiful a resource gets the more it gets wasted and thus, the resource will be scarce again. The "richness" of media today is often too thick for me to stomach. I don't know why people are so impressed or think it impresses people.
- dhritzkiv 9y agoRegarding bandwidth… what if the video is efficiently encoded to less than the file size of a high-quality PNG/JPEG (assuming the image was not optimized itself)? Artifacts in heavily compressed video files are often more acceptable than artefacts in highly compressed still JPEGs, IMO.
- minikites 9y agoPerhaps the correct answer is to have a solid color or similarly simple background. Aids in readability too.
- saidajigumi 9y agoFrom the "Best Practices for Web Developers" section: It’s worth pointing out that the new auto-play policies apply both to video used as a tool for making something visual happen (like background video or video-as-animated-gif) and also to video that serves as consumable content. We recommend web developers test their site with these new behaviors, ensuring any custom media controls behave correctly when auto-play is disabled, either automatically by Safari or by users. I.e. you now need to verify that your site still looks good and works well when background video auto-play has been denied.
- atomwaffel 9y agoAlthough one might argue that there's something seriously wrong with your website already if it doesn't work without video playing in the background. According to the article, blacklisting (or lack of whitelisting) is also easy to detect by handling the Promise rejection, which means you can easily provide a static fallback for video that's used purely decoratively.
- ovao 9y agoI'd guess that a specified poster image would still work as expected.
- dbbk 9y agoI think they'll be fine, there's already special exceptions for videos that don't have an audio track.
- JBReefer 9y agoHopefully negatively. Those are a great example of the "let's break the Internet for everyone that isn't on unmetered broadband using Chrome latest" phenomenon.