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Video.js retweeted
On 29 April 2010, Steve Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash", an open letter giving six reasons iPhones and iPads would not run Adobe's plugin. It changed how the web plays video.
Jobs argued that flash was proprietary, crashed Macs, had a poor security record, drained batteries, relied on mouse hovers touchscreens lack, and put a third-party layer between Apple and its developers.
Apple backed open web standards instead (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript) and H.264 video. Critics noted H.264 was patented too. It didn't matter. Adobe dropped mobile Flash in 2011, YouTube made HTML5 its default in 2015, and Adobe ended Flash support on 31 December 2020.
That left every site that wanted video on iPhones and iPads with a problem: play without a plugin, on an HTML5 video element that was new and inconsistent.
Video.js, a weekend experiment by Steve Heffernan at Zencoder, was one of the first soltuions.
Our upcoming film tells that story, and what happened in 2025, when Steve came back and Video.js started over.
Video.js: The Documentary is coming...
Trailer: Thursday 29 October at 11:30am PDT
Premieres Live on 5 November on CultRepo YT at 10:30am PST
@MuxHQ @videojs @heff @jondahl @mihar_22 @luwes @sam_potts
Bundle size was a top priority as we built Video.js v10. And we're still working on it!
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Video on the top screen, controls on the bottom, all built from Video.js v10 components and some CSS.
It needs Safari feature flags today, but it's a good look at what composable v10 makes possible.
@darius_cepulis breaks it down in a thread and blog post:
Plyr has been one of the best-loved players on the web for years, and that's all Sam. We're lucky he brought that same care to Video.js 10.
Thank you @sam_potts, and welcome Plyr folks. You'll feel at home 🫶
Plyr is now officially deprecated and it's time to give Video.js 10 a whirl! plyr.io/
Thanks for all the support over the years! 🙏
Friends ran for 10 seasons.
David Tennant was the 10th Doctor Who.
The Great Longneck Migration was the 10th Land Before Time.
VJS 10 is now GA. Smol, customizable, and plays nice with your agents so they can help you migrate like Littlefoot.
videojs.org/blog/videojs-10
Reboot time, baby. After 16 years, we teamed up with Plyr, Vidstack and Media Chrome to make the open source player that the web deserves (again). Check out the v10 blog post, try it out, and give us feedback.
videojs.org/blog/videojs-v10…
The incompatibility between Chrome 105 and Video.js < 7.10 / VHS 1.x appears to have been resolved. Please update to Chrome 105.0.5195.102. Thank you, @googlechrome! 🥳
One clarification, it is still possible that this breaks again in Chrome 107, so users should still be updating to Video.js 7.10+ and/or VHS 2.x!
github.com/videojs/video.js/…
Video.js retweeted
We were going to wait until Monday to make it official, but...we're thrilled to announce the first Demuxed where no one can blame us for the chairs.
October 27-29, on The Internet™
2020.demuxed.com
We have updated the default branches of our most used repositories to `main`. We will continue updating other repos as they are used and are working towards using inclusive terminology everywhere in the project.
Video.js retweeted
If you're interested in how the themes are built, I wrote up a high-level overview on the Mux.com blog. Why we went with a monorepo, used PostCSS instead of Sass, did it at all, etc. mux.com/blog/the-new-video-j…
Video.js retweeted
I had planned on this taking like 1 month, and instead it took...a lot longer than that. 😬
But I'm so, so excited to finally be able to contribute to the @videojs community again. Enjoy! ✌️ – at Dogpatch, San Francisco
Aaaaand it's live! A long-overdue refresh of the videojs.com is now live, along with 4 fresh new themes! Get it while it's hot 🎉 videojs.com/blog/announcing-…
Aaaaand it's live! A long-overdue refresh of the videojs.com is now live, along with 4 fresh new themes! Get it while it's hot 🎉 videojs.com/blog/announcing-…
Miiiiight want to keep an eye on videojs.com over the next few days 👀😉
