Bug 211886
| Summary: | <video> won’t play when Javascript is disabled | ||
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| Product: | WebKit | Reporter: | me |
| Component: | New Bugs | Assignee: | Nobody <webkit-unassigned> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | Safari Technology Preview | ||
| Hardware: | Mac | ||
| OS: | macOS 10.15 | ||
me
When you have Javascript disabled in Safari, HTML5 video (via the <video> tag) will not play. And the usual “Play”-button often shows a square image instead of a triangle (not always, though). I would have expected for videos to be playable, though, as I have not added any JS myself.
(You can still start the video via context menu and “Picture-In-Picture”, though.)
You can try on any page that displays videos using a <video> tag.
Both on latest Firefox and Chrome, video is playable when Javascript is disabled.
Overall, I’m not quite sure whether this is a bug or a feature. But given the square “Play” button and no hint that JS has to be enabled, I think it’s the former in one way or another.
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me
My original description was for the Mac. But I just tested iOS 12 Safari, too, and it’s the same issue there.
Alexey Proskuryakov
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178040 ***