RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178040 Bug 211886
<video> won’t play when Javascript is disabled 
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211886
Summary <video> won’t play when Javascript is disabled
me
Reported 2020-05-14 02:57:30 PDT
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
Comment 1 2020-05-14 03:05:51 PDT
My original description was for the Mac. But I just tested iOS 12 Safari, too, and it’s the same issue there.
Alexey Proskuryakov
Comment 2 2020-05-15 17:37:27 PDT
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 178040 ***
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