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Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

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Re: Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

#3
Very clean looking.

I'm not so keen on the default "start playing from the beginning" icon though. To me, it looks too much like a "loop" toggle.

Also, it would be nice if the caption toggle had a visual on/off look. Perhaps it could have a solid fill when turned on. This would make it easier to tell at a glance if captions are on when at a point in a video where there's no dialogue.

Re: Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

#4
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AS someone that programs in R plyr is a major library for manipulating languages. It is one of the most popular libraries in use for R. https://github.com/hadley/plyr

Yup, my first thought too. Though presumably different roots - player and pliers. There's also another stringr (crowdsourced video content platform) and caret (text editing for Chrome).

Re: Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

#6
post #4
post #2

AS someone that programs in R plyr is a major library for manipulating languages. It is one of the most popular libraries in use for R. https://github.com/hadley/plyr

Yup, my first thought too. Though presumably different roots - player and pliers. There's also another stringr (crowdsourced video content platform) and caret (text editing for Chrome).

Now dplyr has pretty much replaced it with better syntax and perf. Take a look at it. https://github.com/hadley/dplyr

Re: Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

#7
post #3

Very clean looking. I'm not so keen on the default "start playing from the beginning" icon though. To me, it looks too much like a "loop" toggle. Also, it would be nice if the caption toggle had a visual on/off look. Perhaps it could have a solid fill when turned on. This would make it easier to tell at a glance if captions are on when at a point in a video where there's no dialogue.

Agreed. Love the L&F but that icon is slightly "misleading," as far as typical user expectations goes.

Re: Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

#9
This is really nice.

The only small suggestion I'd make from a usability standpoint: make volume adjustments as the slider is being dragged instead of waiting until `mouseup`. It's always nicer to get immediate feedback when you're changing volume levels.

Re: Plyr – A simple HTML5 media player

#10
IANAL and I am scared by licenses I don't recognize. I pretty much bail as soon as I see the words "all rights reserved" regardless of what comes after it.

That said, this license is extremely short and for a tool that is clearly intended to be distributed. Is this essentially a CC attribution license? If so, why not just use that?

https://github.com/Selz/plyr/blob/master/license.md

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