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Currently the media button is limited by a short whitelist of media hostings that provide their own media players:
① Apple Music
② Dailymotion
③ Facebook
④ Flickr
⑤ Giphy
⑥ Imgur
⑦ Instagram
⑧ Pinterest
⑨ Reddit
⑩ SoundCloud
⑪ Spotify
⑫ TikTok
⑬ Tumblr
⑭ Twitch
⑮ Twitter
⑯ Vimeo
⑰ YouTube
The suggestion here is to support yet another BB code tag, named
The intention here is to introduce a video tag that would much more closely resemble the behaviour of
An obvious demerit here is that a video file (unlike a video hosting's player) might be less compatible because not every browser supports a particular video track format. However,
➊ the compatibility situation has greatly improved recently (for example, Safari 17.4 supports VP8/VP9 video and Vorbis/Opus audio in WebM video files even on iOS devices),
➋ if
Please re-send this suggestion upstream (to XenForo Ltd.) if nothing can be done on MangaDex level of control over the forums' implementation.
① Apple Music
② Dailymotion
③ Facebook
④ Flickr
⑤ Giphy
⑥ Imgur
⑦ Instagram
⑧ Pinterest
⑨ Reddit
⑩ SoundCloud
⑪ Spotify
⑫ TikTok
⑬ Tumblr
⑭ Twitch
⑮ Twitter
⑯ Vimeo
⑰ YouTube
The suggestion here is to support yet another BB code tag, named
[video]…[/video]
or similarly, that would (unlike [media]…[/media]
) contain a full URL of some video file (a WebM file or an MP4 file, I presume) and make an HTML5 video player out of it.
HTML:
<video controls src="givenURL"></video>
The intention here is to introduce a video tag that would much more closely resemble the behaviour of
[img]…[/img]
(but would reference video files instead of image files — but that would be the only difference).An obvious demerit here is that a video file (unlike a video hosting's player) might be less compatible because not every browser supports a particular video track format. However,
➊ the compatibility situation has greatly improved recently (for example, Safari 17.4 supports VP8/VP9 video and Vorbis/Opus audio in WebM video files even on iOS devices),
➋ if
[img]…[/img]
tags are allowed to reference AVIF files (despite their lack of support in Microsoft Edge until January 2024), then a video file without a really universal support (for example, a WebM file with an AV1 video track or an MP4 file with an USAC audio track) should perhaps also be not frowned upon.Please re-send this suggestion upstream (to XenForo Ltd.) if nothing can be done on MangaDex level of control over the forums' implementation.
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