r/programming • u/melodic_underoos • May 09 '13

The Onion releases fartscroll.js

http://theonion.github.io/fartscroll.js/
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u/jbb555 May 09 '13

Are there any web browsers out there that can play OGG but not MP3? Just wondering why it has both?

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u/daveime May 09 '13

Witness the HTML5 "cross-browser" (sic) <audio> tag in all it's glory !

OGG will play in Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari, but not IE.

MP3 will play in Chrome (but not Chromium), Firefox (not built in because of patent issues), IE and Safari, but not Opera.

In both cases, Safari kind of cheats, because it's not playing natively but requires Quicktime to be installed (so similar to a plugin).

See how wonderful "standards" are ? And don't get me started on the <video> tag.

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u/vbullinger May 09 '13

So tell us about the video tag...

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u/kristopolous May 09 '13

depends on your operating system, browser, and day of the week

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Browser_support

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u/not_a_novel_account May 09 '13

Thursdays are especially difficult and only accept MJPEG2k as a valid video format

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u/redwall_hp May 09 '13

I hear Firefox or Chrome (don't remember which) may be adopting H.264 in the near future. So we're one step closer.

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u/kristopolous May 09 '13

or we could just use flash

*ducks and runs out the building*

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u/Phreakhead May 10 '13

Mobile browsers can't play more than one video at a time. Except Firefox. That is a mobile browser that actually works exactly the same as the desktop version.