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Mothra wrote:If you've got one with audio, and a general gist of what I can change in the script, I can give it a shot:

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<p>
<center>
<video controls="" autoplay="true" loop="true" style="max-width:1000px;">
   <source src="{URL}" type="video/webm">
</video>
</center>
</p>

Fiddled with a test doc. Changing it to autoplay="false" keeps it autoplaying. Removing the autoplay="true" part entirely stops the autoplay, and gives you a big play button on it so you know it's a video/animation.

https://my.mixtape.moe/jhjcxn.webm is a clip from Parks & Rec. I won't embed it because it'll start playing, but there's a testbed for you.

As far as adding optional parameters, I am at a loss. Everything I can find says you'd just need to define multiple bbcodes. I don't know how quote and quote= work, quote= might just be its own defined bbcode. So maybe there would need to be two commands, one for autoplay and one for not, so that videos that are like videos can be handled appropriately, but webms and mp4s that are just replacing animated gifs don't need to be individually clicked on.

Yeah, property="false" isn't a thing in HTML. Here's the explanation as best I understand it:

You've got attributes, and you've got properties. Attributes take a value; properties don't, they're boolean.



type and value are attributes; you have to pass them an argument for them to have any meaning. disabled is a property; if it's there, it's true, if it's not there, it's not.

But older versions of HTML don't recognize a property without a value. So, for backward compatibility, you get conventions like this:



But it doesn't matter what's in the quotes; it doesn't get parsed. The part before the equals sign is the important part; you can put anything in the value. "disabled" or "foo" or "placeholder" or whatever.

disabled="true" is a common convention, but I think it's bad practice, for exactly the reason you've hit: it logically implies that disabled="false" would do the opposite. It doesn't. disabled="false" is exactly the same as disabled="true", disabled="yup", disabled="parking", or whatever you put in those quotes.

Same deal with autoplay, loop, allowfullscreen, or any other HTML property that's got a boolean value.

Confusingly enough, it doesn't work that way in some preprocessors. Earlier today I hit this exact problem because I was converting from a JSP-style

I changed it to

momentarily forgetting that disabled="false" doesn't work in vanilla HTML. Took me a few minutes to figure out what had happened.

My brain is way too fried from work to put anything together myself, but yeah, give me some code and I'll add it to the post options so we can test it out.

Just FYI this shit complete stops any media you have playing on an andriod device (podcasts, music) every single time you go to a page with a webm on it and god damn it if I havent had to restart my podcast a half a dozen times in the last 2 minutes for no good reason.

Huh.

Prob going to avoid posting webms until that's sorted then.

Suppose that's good reason to just kill autoplay straight off and forget about an option for autoplay.

Oh that ought to work.

Yeah, other sites I've seen with htmlvid embeds usually have them as click-to-play.

The boards mysteriously had a weird "download the entire page" bug for like two hours today but after a cache clear it fixed itself

I just had an error trying to log in; it said my IP was connected to malicious activity. I'm using a VPN with a shared IP pool.

Cycling my IP (turning the VPN off and on again) fixed it, but I'll let you know if it happens again.

Mothra wrote:The boards mysteriously had a weird "download the entire page" bug for like two hours today but after a cache clear it fixed itself

I'm getting this in Firefox right now.

But not in Chrome?!

Works for Buge on Chrome as well.

Happened for me in Chrome for a bit, fixed now.

Mongrel wrote:

Mothra wrote:The boards mysteriously had a weird "download the entire page" bug for like two hours today but after a cache clear it fixed itself

I'm getting this in Firefox right now.

But not in Chrome?!

Works for Buge on Chrome as well.

Hm, I was on Firefox when it happened too.

Did you try the cache clear?

It started working again before I thought to.

Huh. Okay this just happened to me again. Clearing cache did nothing.

This time it downloaded a file called "download". File type: File.

Hm.

Yeah, I get that prompt, asking if I want to download index.php

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