I’m looking for some help with 4 issues on Discourse Chat. If you think you can help with any of these please get in touch:
1. Bug: Text Can’t be Selected in Chat Composer on iOS
In the chat composer window, if you type in a message and select text it will highlight a word but then not allow you to adjust your selection by moving the dots on either end of the word.
That’s great news and thank you so much. We’ve heard about this bug from a few of our users and it would be wonderful to have it fixed for all discourse users.
@j.jaffeux this looks like a bug in Safari browser to me?
When opened in Firefox or Chrome, with the exact same video attachment, the video tag renders correctly with “a preview”, would you concur? (in quotes as I don’t believe it relies upon Discourse app thumbnail processing).
That suggests there isn’t anything we can do app side?
I note the issue only occurs in chat which uses the <video html tag prior to watching.
On Posts, in which the preview is rendered correctly on Safari, Discourse appears to employ a <div class"video-placeholder-container" … and a “faked” video poster placeholder before you click at which point it switches to the <video version.
As a bit of background we never implemented video placeholders for chat, it just relies on HTML5 video tag features to make it work. We implemented our own placeholder logic originally for topic/posts because videos were auto “downloading” data on every single topic load even if they weren’t being played chewing up cdn costs on popular sites.
I don’t think we need to re-implement the same placeholder logic we have for topics in chat just yet, but there still may be some ios/safari tweaks we will need to make in order for things to work on iOS. I thought just having the preload="metadata" attribute would do the trick, but looks like that is already present.
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