Hi davide405
Thanks for looking into it.
I experience the problem in all major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE11)
on Windows 7, all of which are running the latest updates. You should be
able to see it for yourself by clicking to play any of the small videos
on the left hand column of Boing Boing’s main page. Once the video
starts playing, the only way to stop it is by navigating away from the page.
I think I see what’s causing it, but it will require a web developer to
fix it.
There’s an unusual CSS class on the news item element that the video is
contained in. Clicking the video creates a class called ‘catchall’ the
covers the whole news element and blocks the video player controls.
This is also causing a related issue I noted a few days ago. Attempting
to play a Boing Boing video on the iPhone requires the following steps:
- Click on the small video in the feed. This replaces the static video
picture with what appears to be a YouTube player (with a red ‘Play’
button in the middle). - Clicking the play button navigates you to a new page which shows the
full post and a larger version of the video. - Click on the larger video, and this repeats the behaviour seen in
step (1) - the video reloads with a red ‘Play’ button in the middle. - Click the red play button and the video finally starts playing.
Perhaps Boing Boing’s web developers could take a look?
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