![]() Beyond the web, his work has appeared in the print edition of The New York Times (September 9, 2019) and in PCWorld's print magazines, specifically in the August 2013 and July 2013 editions, where his story was on the cover. With over a decade of writing experience in the field of technology, Chris has written for a variety of publications including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, IDG's PCWorld, Digital Trends, and MakeUseOf. Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. I think Safari 11 supports autoplay mute by default, I'm not sure about Safari 12 but I'll test tomorrow for my on sanity as I have a bee in my bonett about it now All the Apple devices I tested earlier (ncluded an up to date iPhone 8) all allowed the video to autoplay with the mute attribute.Chris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. That Firefox article is dated 2015 so I don't know how relveant it is, this article dated a few months ago says the default FF policy is and will remain (for now anyway) to allow 'autoplay muted': and my default Firefox set up confimrd that. ![]() The Chrome extension says 14, 378 users and the FF one says 31,700 in the grand scheme of things that seems a very small number to me. Looking at those examples of blockers Nancy has taken the time to dig out, I tested the Chrome and Firefox add-ons and the 'controls' attribute provides an adequate fallback, the plugins don't completely block the video, they just prevented autoplay which just required a simple click of the play button in that instance. The 'mute' attribute is there to mitigate the number of people blocking autoplay as the default policy is normally to allow 'autoplay muted'.Īs for add ons and people going out of their way to block autoplay completely, I'd have thought you could add the 'controls' attribute to provide a fallback/play button. If you can't or won't use a player button, alternatives are HTML5 animation or an animated GIF.
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