Metadata
- Source
- VP-218
- Type
- Bug
- Priority
- Major
- Status
- Closed
- Resolution
- Fixed
- Assignee
- Colin Clark
- Reporter
- Colin Clark
- Created
2009-11-08T19:07:28.000-0500 - Updated
2013-03-05T19:46:23.451-0500 - Versions
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- 0.1
- Fixed Versions
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- 0.1
- Component
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- core
Description
At the moment, users can provide their own markup nested within the video tag for graceful degradation. This is a good basic scheme, but we probably want to ship built-in support for gracefully degrading to a few other video players where HTML 5 video support is unavailable. Out of the box, I imagine we might want to include support for the YouTube player and QuickTime.
Open questions: are the JavaScript APIs for some of these player technologies good enough to support our own chrome and even caption display? YouTube, for example, seems to have a fairly rich scripting API.
Comments
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Colin Clark commented
2013-03-05T19:01:05.044-0500 This issue was resolved with our introduction of MediaElement.js, which provides support for handling YouTube videos as if they were standard HTML5 media elements.
I don't know of any other prominent hosted players that provide a rich enough API (I wish Vimeo did) to enable us to support them with our own chrome.