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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by culturestate on Monday September 17, 2012 @03:26AM (#4531593)
There's nothing non-standards compliant about what they've done, as far as I can tell. Disabling the animation seems like an attempt at ensuring graceful degradation.
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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by no_more_death on Monday September 17, 2012 @05:01AM (#4531743)
Graceful degradation shouldn't be based on user agent sniffing. That defeats the purpose.
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Re:iPhone 5 web teardown: How Apple compresses video using J... by culturestate on Monday September 17, 2012 @10:29AM (#4532710)
I would argue that any reasonable technique that allows users of older browsers to access your site or use your app relatively normally is within the bounds of what we would describe as "graceful degradation." Being non-automatic doesn't make it any less valid.
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