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by spaceribs 1710 days ago
Yeah, I have a feeling it was due to optimizations deeper in the stack, I'm just deeply unhappy that what essentially should be an interoperable API via the <video> element was locked down in such a spectacular fashion.

The edge cases of varying video providers has been really eye opening when i've been doing this project, it hard to imagine how screenreader software (or any meta-software that makes it easier for the disabled) works at all.