[sf-lug] Notes of the SF-LUG meeting on 2016-12-04 at Cafe Enchante..

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jim Stockford (jim at well.com):

>     Thank you.
> 
>     My experience has been to browse some Twitter
> celebrity pages (Alex Wagner, Jennifer Granholm,
> Kathleen Parker....
>     Recently I've noticed problems with an error
> message to the effect that "The media cannot be
> played."
>     I right-click and inspect to see a nested
> bunch of div class .... Somewhere there's
> <script src="https://abs.twimg.com/web-video-player/668e57ecb0cd92a9c456b7b10587c707cfdcfb4c/js/build.min.js"></script>

So, the long and short of it is that you don't _know_ this is a Flash
video clip; you just guess so, right?  And, actually, you don't even
know that it's lack of video software.  It could be problems processing
the Javascript wrapper, or something else entirely.

Sounds a bit unfocussed as a problem-solving method.

Anyway, personally, I don't get worked up every time someone puts up
something on the Web that for mysterious reasons balks at presenting on
my Web browser.  There is always some yoyo making the assumption that
everyone else has software $FOO, and I decline to go through hoops every
time another variant pops up somewhere -- without compelling reason.