Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread Chris Ilias
On 2017-08-22 7:17 AM, null wrote: There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. HTML5 is not a media player. It's a language used for writing webpages. The new HTML standard (number 5) allows browsers

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread TCW
On 8/22/2017 6:17 AM, null wrote: There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. Increasingly videos from this or that source will not play in either SM or FF. For instance, recent videos posted to

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread Mason83
On 22/08/2017 13:17, null wrote: > There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe > Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. Flash is on the way out (December 2020). https://www.ghacks.net/2017/07/25/adobe-retires-flash-in-december-2020/ Webm is

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Steve Dunn wrote: On 2017-08-22 10:20, null wrote: Do I have HTML5 support? From the above, I'm unclear. You do, but you are missing one of the most common codecs, which may be the problem. There are numerous codecs (COmpressors-DECompressors) for video, much like there are for audio, and

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 If you are running XP just forget anything HTML5 which isn't working out of the box. Support is just not there anymore and no one will fix it. At this point in time XP and HTML5 is just self torture. FRG

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread TCW
On 8/22/2017 1:15 PM, Steve Dunn wrote: On 2017-08-22 10:20, null wrote: WaltS48 wrote: Do you have HTML5 support? What is checked there? Using SM, The page asks the question "What does this browser support?" The following boxes are ticked :

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread Steve Dunn
On 2017-08-22 10:20, null wrote: WaltS48 wrote: Do you have HTML5 support? What is checked there? Using SM, The page asks the question "What does this browser support?" The following boxes are ticked : HTMLVideoElement Media Source Extensions WebM VP8 MSE &

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread TCW
On 8/22/2017 9:20 AM, null wrote: WaltS48 wrote: On 8/22/17 7:17 AM, null wrote: There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. Increasingly videos from this or that source will not play in either SM

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread null
WaltS48 wrote: On 8/22/17 7:17 AM, null wrote: There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. Increasingly videos from this or that source will not play in either SM or FF. For instance, recent videos

Re: There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread WaltS48
On 8/22/17 7:17 AM, null wrote: There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. Increasingly videos from this or that source will not play in either SM or FF. For instance, recent videos posted to

Re: Mail notifications

2017-08-22 Thread Steve Rogerson
On Tuesday, 22 August 2017 14:23:58 UTC+1, Steve Rogerson wrote: > I downloaded 2.48 for my Mac. Now, every time a new email comes in I get an > annoying notification in the top of my screen and a sound. I have looked in > preferences and the notifications box is NOT checked. So why is this >

Mail notifications

2017-08-22 Thread Steve Rogerson
I downloaded 2.48 for my Mac. Now, every time a new email comes in I get an annoying notification in the top of my screen and a sound. I have looked in preferences and the notifications box is NOT checked. So why is this happening? I am using Mac Os 10.9.5.

There's a "video war" going on, and we users are the victims

2017-08-22 Thread null
There seems to be a kind of war going on between the proponents of Adobe Flash, something open source called Webm, and the HTML5 player. Increasingly videos from this or that source will not play in either SM or FF. For instance, recent videos posted to Youtube increasingly will not play in

Re: WEB Ctrl D

2017-08-22 Thread Lucas Levrel
Le 11 août 2017, à 18:01, Ray Davison a écrit : The default used to be tree open. At some point it changed to tree closed, but someone posted how to set a switch to tree open. And so I did, but now I have lost it. I found this in my userChrome.css, which, although it doesn't have effect in