This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.
Support for mp4 isn't bleeding-edge tech on other operating systems / distributions, unfortunately. It's a couple of years old in terms of being supported by Chrome; it's supported in Firefox as of last August. At this point, desktop configurations that can't play mp4s are at risk of being considered "broken."
Twitter's GIF hack
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Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#22This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#23This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.
You choose not to use the appropriate software to experience what is being offered. This is akin to riding a decrepit horse on a racetrack while whining about how everyone else that is riding a healthy horse is going faster and having a better experience than you. Just upgrade.
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#24How long has twitter been doing this? Just out of curiousity.
(Yes I know 4chan doesn't convert but there was some talk that 4chan might be a major player in pushing webm forward. Is it even webm or x264? On mobile. Can't check right now.)
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#25This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.
Support for mp4 isn't bleeding-edge tech on other operating systems / distributions, unfortunately. It's a couple of years old in terms of being supported by Chrome; it's supported in Firefox as of last August. At this point, desktop configurations that can't play mp4s are at risk of being considered "broken."
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#26This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.
This is very far from bleeding-edge; we're talking technology between five and 10 years old. Set up gstreamer already; it's time to move past gifs.
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#27This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.
Also lol @ mp4 being "bleeding edge" tech. It certainly is not. Even in the Linux community.
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Support for mp4 isn't bleeding-edge tech on other operating systems / distributions, unfortunately. It's a couple of years old in terms of being supported by Chrome; it's supported in Firefox as of last August. At this point, desktop configurations that can't play mp4s are at risk of being considered "broken."
Chrome on Mavericks is "broken?" How shall I upgrade this?
Re: Twitter's GIF hack
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
You choose not to use the appropriate software to experience what is being offered. This is akin to riding a decrepit horse on a racetrack while whining about how everyone else that is riding a healthy horse is going faster and having a better experience than you. Just upgrade.
Your analogy is stupid and your comments are not helpful. I'm not modifying 3,600 workstations because some web programmer decided to mangle user-uploaded content without doing fundamental work to ensure graceful degradation.