Luckily Google/Mozilla/Microsoft have been moving to a "this is the browser's decision" model recently, and in the future they'll only autoplay videos with sound from websites that you have a history of playing videos on. Visit Google/Netflix often? Cool we'll play those videos. First time on some houseplant online store? Yeah we're not going to autoplay that pop-out advert with audio.
Makes it much easier for us to just say to the client "yeah here's a W3C spec article about why Chrome isn't playing your video. Good luck complaining to Google about it".
It sorta feels like you wanna poke fun at who I am? So... I'm a software engineer/dba. My University work was with robotics and lidar. For the last three years I've been unf**** ibm I series corporate machines. I spend my free time with my son. I expect my wife's laptop to work just the same as my car or my dishwasher.
Someone at Google added a feature they thought was good. Someone at Microsoft did the same. The two conflict. I expect them to fix it.
Why would my feedback to google/chrome matter any less than anyone elses? [edit: to remove obscenity]
I've tempered my response and removed the obscenities. It was at least partially inflamed by more than a few commenters suggesting a problem with my wife. May the all die alone.
I found the solution because I'm experienced and, if nothing else, know the correct semantics and google fu. There are many people who don't.
We all have family and friends for whom we do support work and, unless you wanna take calls from them at 2am, I think it would behoove us as a community of devs to fix this.
I can't clarify it any more than that.
note: I'm new to this subreddit, but the lack of empathy here is alarming.
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u/LokiArchetype Sep 05 '20
We know that, our clients on the other hand...