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

[jim]

     Actually the long and short of it is that
I don't know how to make sense of what I'm
seeing. I present what I hope may help some
readers recognize the problem, in this case

<script src="https://abs.twimg.com/web-video-player/...



On 12/06/2016 10:03 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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