On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 14:08:16 +0000 Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:06 AM Adam Wilson <mox...@riseup.net> wrote: > > > > > There's more there, and I can't really be bothered to go on. > > > > > > Thanks, that is the first time I have seen the whole story pulled > > together > in one place. > > Clearly an alternative to Flash is desirable -- I wonder if we are > really there yet. HTML5 implementation in for example iceweasel in > Jessie, as well as what I have in Google Chrome on my Android tablet, > seems a bit basic -- can't for example make the video full-screen as > there doesn't seem to be a screen gadget to do that. The HTML5 player is only as good as the website implementing the standard wants to make it- YouTube's HTML5 player, for instance, is excellent, and so is the Vimeo player, as well as countless others. The *reference implementation* so to speak is also good (the player used by the web browser when playing a video file directly in the browser, such as: http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/short--undated--rms--free-software-four-freedoms.ogv). > Maybe this is a > specific player on a specific site, but I thought the idea behind > HTML5 was to standardise such things? Maybe there's a key combination > but how does one know that? And stability seems to be a problem, I've > seen a couple of videos that don't play all the way through with an > HTML5 player but switch to Flash and it works... > > I'd like to see the back of Flash, for all the reasons you've cited, > but it seems you have to _really_ care to make the compromises > necessary to do that right now. What compromises? I don't use Flash, and I haven't experienced any significant discomfort- it isn't a big sacrifice to make. Few websites (or at least the websites I visit) require it, and those that do I avoid. The only ones I can think of off the top of my head are some of the mainstream news sites, but then they're mostly shit anyway. I went through a phase of running LibreJS and not even allowing non-free JavaScript to run. *That* is hard- getting rid of Flash is nothing compared to getting rid of most JavaScript. Running non-free JavaScript is one of the compromises I am prepared to make- but I draw the line at Flash.
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