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For the life of me I can't see why anyone would need picture in picture for browsers. More features most people don't need. Please come down to earth Mozilla. You have lost your way. Please revisit NCSA Mosaic and witness your roots.
I use it a lot because I have only one monitor.
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I use PIP a lot in Chrome while browsing Reddit. If I see a video link, I can play the video while continuing to scroll through Reddit comments. (YouTube PIP is kind of difficult to discover; you have to right-click, move the mouse off the menu, and right-click again to get the native right-click menu, which is where the PIP button is.)
Why not just open it in another tab?
This is the designer’s nightmare: Every feature needs to be available to everyone, therefore be visible on the screen. Yet they only cite rare usecases: « Watching sports event while continuing to browse the web ». In the meantime, the blue tone isn’t generally consistent with the websites’ colors.
I would have supposed moderatelt-used features belongs in the right-click menu like the rest, or they need to find a way to merge it with the video controls (I guess an Apple designer would imagine a new kind of special press to detach the video, which is fine too).
Picture in Picture is great for lectures or follow-along tutorials and I'm glad people are taking it more seriously (initially was using Youtube on Safari purely because of this feature, but later on Chrome had it... albeit a bit wonky, I started using it on Chrome normally).
I would love to have an external controller for start/stop/fast forward/rewind when watching tutorials on Youtube. For example a controller [1] people are using to edit videos. Quite often I would like to pause the video for a while, repeat last 30 sec or by-pass some boring segment. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Contour-Design-Shuttle-Xpress-Multime...
It typically would be a usecase for the Macbook touch bar, does anyone has one and can tell us whether it has an integration with web videoplayers?
> To work around these problems, we rely on the fact that the web page is being sent events from the browser engine. At Firefox, we control the browser engine! Before sending out a mouse event, we can check to see what sort of DOM nodes are directly underneath the cursor. This triggered some mental alarm bells when I read it. I understand what Mozilla is trying to accomplish, but this feels like it could become a ser…
> To work around these problems, we rely on the fact that the web page is being sent events from the browser engine. At Firefox, we control the browser engine! Before sending out a mouse event, we can check to see what sort of DOM nodes are directly underneath the cursor. This triggered some mental alarm bells when I read it. I understand what Mozilla is trying to accomplish, but this feels like it could become a ser…
I don't think they are talking about mouse events the website can observe. Firefox needs to figure out where the video is and make it's UI on top of that work, there is no observable interaction with the site DOM or its event handlers.
Glad to also have it available on Linux and Mac now. It's perfect for on-the-side Youtube videos.
With (some) television sets in mind that popularized (for, um, me at least) the picture-in-picture term as one channel of video on top of another channel of video, it feels weird that the term is here used when only a minimum of 1 videos is involved...
I've seen a couple of this breaking the video out of the main layout, but not sure if it was this Firefox feature or not. I was pretty sure that once the video broke out of the normal layout, the original location of the video was replaced with ads playing without audio. I was immediately turned of by it.
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A comment on reddit said they use it all the time when following coding tutorials. Seems like a handy use case.
That brings up a second question: who watches coding tutorials? I'd imagine it's probably people with less than a few weeks of coding experience, because it's horribly inefficient compared to text tutorials.