[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#760297: Bug#760297: libjs-mediaelement: completely useless without the flash/silverlight parts

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting David Prévot (2014-09-02 21:50:54)
> Control: severity -1 wishlist

You honestly consider lack of those parts merely a wish, no bug at all?

> Control: rename -1 Please, (build and) ship Flash and Silverlight parts
> Le 02/09/2014 12:29, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
>
>> The very purpose of MediaElement.js is to act as a polyfill for 
>> browsers that does not support html5 <audio> and <video> tags, and it 
>> does so by use of either flash or silverlight code.
>
> As (not enough) documented in the package description and (better) in 
> the upstream homepage, the purpose is to offer an unified interface in 
> order to offer the same experience whatever the browser. The Flash or 
> Silverlight shim are only used if needed to help legacy browsers not 
> HTML5-compatible to mimic those expectations. The middle-term goal is 
> of course to offer the the Flash and Silverlight shims, but the 
> upstream build process was not really open and properly documented at 
> the time the package was uploaded to Debian.

Let's see - here are the bullet points from the front page:

  * HTML5 audio and video players in pure HTML and CSS.
  * Custom Flash and Silverlight players that mimic the HTML5 
    MediaElement API for older browsers
  * Accessibility standards including WebVTT

Of those, the first point is not Javascript at all, the second is not 
working at all, so your argument must be related to the third somehow.

Please elaborate!!


 - Jonas

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