[GTALUG] Toronto Star videos no longer work

[Stephen]

On 15-04-24 11:19 AM, James Knott wrote:
> On 04/24/2015 11:14 AM, Tim Tisdall wrote:
>> Worked for me...  Chrome in Ubuntu 14.04
>
> It works in Chromium, at least on one computer.  However, I generally
> use Firefox for most of my browsing and Chromium is normally used for
> stuff related to my GMail account, such as contacts, calendar etc.
>
> I still have to find out why that link works in Chromium on my notebook,
> but not desktop.  Also, aren't web site vedeos supposed to be shifting
> to HTML5?  These problems started with recent changes to the Star's web
> site.  Prior to that, the biggest problem was videos starting
> automatically, when I didn't want them to.  ;-)

Worked for me in Firefox under Ubuntu 14.04.

Note that HTML5 is, well, HTML.

It is not a video format. And there is no single video format supported 
by all browsers. At least when I last worked on this in January.

HTML5 does provide tags so that the server can offer the video in more 
than one format, and the browser can then select the version it supports.

That explains why sites with a huge number of video files are slow to 
move, because the space requirements double, and perhaps millions of 
lines of HTML code have to be updated.

I can imagine the new HTML5 tags are now being used, but the web site 
does not yet have a good process for routinely supporting two video file 
formats.

-- 
Stephen