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In a way they're doing it better. Twitter only seems to support MP4 whereas gfycat et al will deliver WEBM or MP4 based on the user's browser.
by discreditable 12y ago
In a way they're doing it better. Twitter only seems to support MP4 whereas gfycat et al will deliver WEBM or MP4 based on the user's browser.
- skrowl 12y agoAgreed. MP4 doesn't work on Firefox (out of the box).
- pyre 12y agoYou should probably qualify that somehow, because MP4 works for me on Firefox (on OSX 10.9).
- preek 12y agoIt does not work for me, too. FF30, OSX 10.9.3. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/e81e070a-4e2e-4367-9eb1-83a7f6fe151f/42755f0246227bd75eb5e1099f857348/deep/0/About-This-Mac-and-Embedly-Blog,-What-Twitter-Isn't-Telling-You-About-GIFs---Vimperator.png https://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/e81e070a-4e2e-4367-9eb...
- pyre 12y agoOSX 10.9.2 + FF30 here: http://i.imgur.com/uTlQkg7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/uTlQkg7.jpg
- DCKing 12y agoRight click the video. It's probably Flash. Plays using Flash in Firefox on my machine. OS X is the last platform where Firefox doesn't support H.264. They're working on it, but it doesn't seem to be landing soon.
- nacs 12y agoMP4 works out of the box on my Firefox (latest stable).
- cookiecaper 12y agoIf you have a H.264 decoder installed (and most computers do), new-ish versions of Firefox will try to use it to play embedded H.264 videos. Unfortunately, a lot of sites are still in "Firefox == Flash" mode and automatically serve up the Flash version to Fx users without even trying a <video> tag.