Support .webm Files for Profile/User Card Backgrounds

Feature
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I’ve already enabled the extension in the settings but it doesn’t seem to display:

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Example file: http://zippy.gfycat.com/QueasyMediocreGraywolf.webm (e.g. http://gfycat.com/QueasyMediocreGraywolf)

1 Like
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.webm has somewhat sketchy availability

http://caniuse.com/#feat=webm

but at least it’s better than .webp …

http://caniuse.com/#feat=webp

3

I do not believe that webms can be used as a background-image in CSS; the specifications (in the future) only allow for any data that can be loaded in an <image> tag.

4

Closing this, flag to re-open when webm is wildly available and in the CSS spec.