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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Max Semenik <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, when mobile WP was in its childhood, it was decided that we're not >> ready to display videos on our pages, so they were stripped. And >> stripped very crudely, by removing just #ogg_player_1 and >> #ogg_player_2 so that only first two videos on a page were removed. >> What are your opinions - shoudld we continue doing this? >> > > So, here's the thing -- we've dropped OggHandler and switched to > TimedMediaHandler which outputs its markup differently -- the new system is > not stripped by MobileFrontend! > > Videos used in the wikis today actually output a <video> element pointing > by default to a WebM source. These *actually work* in Chrome and Firefox > on Android... but iOS and other non-Android systems will generally not have > WebM support and will show a "broken video" placeholder. > > We're still kinda talking internally about license issues for H.264 > support... whee > > -- brion > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Arthur Richards Software Engineer, Mobile [[User:Awjrichards]] IRC: awjr +1-415-839-6885 x6687 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
