Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video

Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by fitzsim on Sunday October 17, 2021 @10:53AM (#28896889)

Sort of meta, but why does plopdown.video require JavaScript? Without JavaScript enabled it renders as a blank page. The actual post is just text and images. Why put that behind a JavaScript wall? Doing so excludes all non-JavaScript-supporting browsers from viewing the site. That's also a type of open web failure, another example of the type of problem the article does a good job of dissecting.

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Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by spaceribs on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:21AM (#28897101)

In my case, the actual plugin doesn't work without Javascript, and this was actually the cheapest option for hosting and staying within what I already had in my Nx monorepo. (it literally costs me $10 a year and I'm only paying for the domain)

I'm looking into some options for this with cloudflare, but it's been pretty low on my priorities for the above reasons. I'm also one of those people that turns off javascript by default, so I know your pain, but I'm also not a multi-billion dollar company.

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Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by krono on Sunday October 17, 2021 @11:14AM (#28897055)

The percentage of visitors without JS likely doesn't make it worth it for the developer to spend time handling this nonstandard.

A site like this can definitely be created without JS, but it's their site and therefore their choice.

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Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by detaro on Sunday October 17, 2021 @12:57PM (#28897835)

The percentage of visitors with extensions like Plopdown likely doesn't make it worth for Netflix to spend time handling this nonstandard. ;)

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Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by krono on Sunday October 17, 2021 @02:53PM (#28898783)

The ability to seek is the standard so you've got things turned around I'm afraid :)

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Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by MarcellusDrum on Sunday October 17, 2021 @04:08PM (#28899359)

But it's their site therefore their choice.

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Re:Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the see... by krono on Sunday October 17, 2021 @06:08PM (#28900251)

Yes I believe so. Having said that, if I had a Netflix sub I would seriously have considered canceling over this.

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