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People won't serve you HTML 5 video unless you impersonate a mobile device. It's still a problem if you don't want to change your user-agent every time you visi
by cookiecaper 15y ago
People won't serve you HTML 5 video unless you impersonate a mobile device. It's still a problem if you don't want to change your user-agent every time you visit a website and just cross your fingers that they think you're mobile and therefore serve up HTML 5 (and as others have pointed out, often in a format that non-Chrome won't play anyway).
- jrockway 15y agoyoutube.com/html5
- cookiecaper 15y agoRight, YT is one among a handful of exceptions that serve HTML 5 to a desktop browser. That doesn't really change the general argument -- almost all sites are not going to give HTML 5 video as an option to desktop clients.
- jrockway 15y agoI didn't realize anybody used other sites for video :)
- lazugod 15y agoThey somewhat appear to want to: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/21/apple-google-cold-war http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/21/apple-google-col...
- jrockway 15y agoI don't think this is "Fuck Google" so much as it is "Fuck people uploading stuff through this interface." If I write some software that costs $999 and only works on HP/UX, it's not "Fuck Microsoft" or "Fuck Apple". It's "Fuck me." I think they call it cutting off your nose to spite your face.