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Seems fair to say “we aren’t going to let web developers cripple the user experience”. A bit like the inane fight over autofill and passwords a few years back
by geoffyoungs 3y ago
Seems fair to say “we aren’t going to let web developers cripple the user experience”. A bit like the inane fight over autofill and passwords a few years back - web developers don’t always know best, don’t always have the users’ interests at heart, are often subject to foolish and outdated requirements from their bosses/organisations etc
Where this policy falls down is in assuming that video content consumption is all Netflix or YouTube. The absence of an API makes certain experiences that use video in different ways.
The UK driving test has a hazard perception part where the examinee has to click to indicate a developing hazard - if there are hardwired buttons on the video player that popup a new window, you can’t build something like that safely.
Half the point of JavaScript in the browser is that the browser development team cannot predict all the possible meanings of a click in a rich web experience.