On 12/28/2013 6:45 AM, Jens Hatlak wrote:
Desiree wrote:
Why won't SeaMonkey 2.23 on Windows 8 Pro play YouTube HTML5 videos
in full screen? The same videos play in full screen on my old Fx
17.0.11 ESR (that I haven't had time to upgrade to version 24 yet).
That's because SM is missing the front-end integration of full-screen
support. This is mainly bug 610509. Once that is fixed, maybe bug 701714
will have to be fixed as well in order to enable HTML5 full-screen video.
Ahaa...thanks for explaining and for the bug numbers so I could read the
bugs.
I also get a popup from SeaMonkey when trying to enter full screen
HTML5 video that says I need further media to properly play the video
and says to go to Addons Manager.
I wonder whether you actually switched to HTML5 video mode. Better
double-check at <http://www.youtube.com/html5>. The "additional media"
request suggests your SM is still trying to play using Flash.
At least SeaMonkey is smart enough to realize it can't do full screen
HTML5 and thus prompts me about Flash.
I had HTML5 though. I know for sure that I was in it because I keep
Flash disabled on SeaMonkey and Firefox (I have it just for Opera
12.15). Plus, the HTML5 player controls indicated SeaMonkey was using
HTML5 player - just not in full screen.
So, is SeaMonkey 2.23 incapable of playing HTML5 YouTube videos in
full screen?
Unfortunately yes.
That's a shame as HTML5 player use is widespread now especially if you
disable Flash on Mozilla browsers. I get most videos now using HTML5
where others claim they are only offered Flash playback. That's
frequently because they have not disabled Flash as Flash will take
precedence if enabled.
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If so, anyone know when it will be able to do this?
Whenever someone fixes the above mentioned bugs. However, to date no-one
is working on them. I provided a patch for the latter, but in order to
get the bugs fixed it needs a good team of at least two people: Someone
who reviews patches, and someone who writes and adapts them according to
the reviewer's needs. The latter is the hard part which often stalls due
to time constraints.
I've followed enough bugs for Fx, and some for SeaMonkey, to be familiar
with the process so I understand the role of, and need for, a reviewer
as well as a patch writer. This makes me wish I was capable of helping.
It's an important thing to many users and I'd like to see more people
discovering and liking SeaMonkey. I am aware that work on SeaMonkey is
a voluntary thing on your own time (so definitely time constraints) but
I hope these two bugs can be resolved in the not too distant future.
HTH
Jens
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