@chrispederick Cool, I've bookmarked your post to test with later.

@chrispederick short videos with tap to play and auto mute would be awesome!

@chrispederick may be this is more of a user setting. Scrolling through a timeline will inevitably cause accidental taps on videos causing undesired audio.

@chrispederick Very cool!

@chrispederick I had a conversation with @simonwoods a while ago wondering if a video-embedding iframe that supported proper/useful fallback could manage to show something useful in the Timeline (like video already does), but neither of us has gotten around to testing it :-P

It seems that Vimeo, like YouTube, doesn’t put any sort of fallback content into its iframes by default, which seems unfortunate :-(

@chrispederick @smokey Micro.blog's timeline is going to require the video tag, just as we require audio for podcast playback. However, that doesn't mean Micro.blog couldn't automatically convert common embeds like YouTube and Vimeo when reading external feeds.

@manton How will you handle YouTube’s tracking if you do this? To quote Adafruit:

This embedded content is from a site (www.youtube.com, flickr.com, etc) that does not comply with the Do Not Track (DNT) setting now enabled on your browser. Clicking through to the embedded content will allow you to be tracked by the embed provider.

@ronguest I don't know. But we can't expect all Micro.blog apps to display the complex HTML/JS often used for embeds, so we'll have to clean up the markup or just link to the video on the web.

@manton A short win could even be, if you were able to get poster images from the YouTube and Vimeo embeds as well as video tags and add some overlay like “click to play on xyz.com” so that at least there is an awareness that they CAN watch a video. Then if native video tags were playable in timeline that also encourages standard html video while supporting awareness of other videos.

@chrispederick Yes, this is the sort of thing I would imagine. I think the most important thing is for people to be aware of what following a link will mean. And Having a video show up in my timeline shouldn’t trigger YouTube trackers unless I take some action.