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Slightly off topic: I really wish Bloomberg would respect peoples mobile data limits and not auto load video on mobile.
by reustle 8y ago
Slightly off topic: I really wish Bloomberg would respect peoples mobile data limits and not auto load video on mobile.
- m-p-3 8y agoI hate autoplaying videos in general.
- ghrifter 8y agoEspecially those "newsy" videos that consume bandwidth with video clips and snippets of text. These are a scourge on facebook feed (before I deleted it). Also hate it on any mainstream media site. These videos are totally useless too. just regurgitating a video with text from the _actual_ article.
- anoncoward111 8y agoShort sighted metrics yield long-term consumer loss :)
- ddeck 8y agoI wish they didn't even have the video to begin with. It's literally someone reading out the first paragraph of the article. Of course the real reason is that it then auto loads the next video letting them push additional content at you.
- chongli 8y agoThis really ought to be handled by the browser vendor. Auto playing video on a mobile browser should be disabled by default.
- Macha 8y agoSome companies work around this by encoding videos as gifs or loading keyframes one by one when playback is not available :(
- atom_arranger 8y agoShould images also not display by default? What about short videos used as replacements for GIFS? Loading the gif would actually use more bandwidth. All these restrictions on mobile browsers make web development a pain.
- coldacid 8y agoI remember that browsers used to actually have an option to not load images. Of course, that was back in the 90s when everyone still used dialup.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago> All these restrictions on mobile browsers make web development a pain. Were web developers not causing so much pain for the users, we wouldn't have this topic in the first place.
- nordsieck 8y ago> What about short videos used as replacements for GIFS? Loading the gif would actually use more bandwidth. It seems reasonable to have an option to lazy load gifs and video. Same with audio. My browser does this right now with flash: if I want to play flash content, I have to opt in. I never want to opt in. > All these restrictions on mobile browsers make web development a pain. I don't understand why you seem to think the browser should serve websites' interests over users interests.
- atom_arranger 8y agoThat's very accusatory. I'm just trying to make a nice experience for users. As I said the GIF version would use more bandwidth, so if browsers force me to use GIFs instead of an HTML5 videos it's making things worse for the user by that metric. If you want to browse an internet without images (or GIFS, or HTML5 gifs) I think you should be able to but I don't think that's what most people, including myself, want. Aside from that though video autoplaying is part of the spec. I think that browsers not following specs properly has made the web a much worse place overall. Browser incompatibility has significantly hindered the web as an application platform.
- chickenfries 8y agoiOS safari gets this right, with an exception for videos without sound, I believe.
- novaRom 8y agoFirefox asks now wether to start playing.
- scarejunba 8y agoBloomberg News is low quality news. Don't read them unless you want to be misinformed. They're copy paste jobs from other low quality news.
- bardworx 8y agoWhat would you recommend, instead?
- scarejunba 8y agoFinancial Times. The WSJ is mostly accurate but you have to watch out for some things (ignore the entire editorial section, for instance).