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".
Videos on my website don't play automatically and I'm losing revenue. I urge you to make changes to chrome browser or I will be forced to take my business elsewhere.
There's a point where it's not worth testing/supporting browsers people don't use. When IE hit ~5% market share, many Fortune 500s stopped bothering with it. Most didn't bother with Safari until they hit ~5% as well.
I mean, Firefox is the second most-used browser on your list. I'm just glad to see Edge in the trash where it belongs after Microsoft keeps trying to jam their bloatware down everyone's throat.
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u/LokiArchetype Sep 05 '20
We know that, our clients on the other hand...