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Re:Developer Preview of Android O by Razengan on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#13926627)
> Basically the apps are developed by much the same people that are doing the web dev. And those are very much Mac/iPhone users.

So why cripple PiP on iOS and bury it on macOS?

• On macOS, you have to have to menu-click on the YouTube web player TWICE to bring up the PiP option [1]; why not include it in YouTube's own menu or control strip?

• on iOS, you could access PiP by visiting YouTube in a browser, or pasting a YouTube link into certain sites [2], but they seem to be actively locking down on this. There are third-party apps that let you view YouTube in PiP, so why is it not in the native player?

[1] http://imgur.com/a/n8b1l

[2] http://ctrlq.org/youtube/pip/

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Re:Developer Preview of Android O by vetinari on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @08:17PM (#13927516)
In macOS, it is Safari, that implements PIP. The sites know nothing about its existence and neither do browsers other than Safari.

The menu on the second click is Safari menu for the <video> HTML5 element.

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