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rodocop
In short: it isn't as easy as for flash to get html5 played only on-demand.
Devs cannot solve this issue fully, but Gecko41 will bring some partial solution.
I'm not believing this for a minute. Perhaps it's not quite easy, but with all the paid full-time programmers they have it could certainly be done - if they really wanted. Personally am sure if Dorian just had enough time he could fix it himself
I mean, it's just another filetype! They can block images and scripts so certainly could block mp4 or other video types too. But instead they have intentionally removed other blocks as well (the most important CAPS prefs for example, or have hidden the javascript-pref from users, etc.) It just fits too well into the picture.
But another thing, funnily in
KM1.6 the flashblock-icon has vanished too now?! Could well be that I shouldn't have added lots of those new KM7x prefs to it, to avoid forgetting them when some day switching to KM7x as main browser... It did reappear 1x after disabling the pref plugins.click_to_play, but only once, and afterwards could not reproduce it anymore at all, not even when removing all those new prefs again. No chance, no Flashblock-icon. No clue why. That theater-background-css doesn't help either now.
Am just glad that the age old redirect to full-page view still works, by replacing the URL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxx
with
https://www.youtube.com/v/xxxx
That shows up with the normal arrow-icon (not FB-icon), and does not load it in background until clicking it. And then it plays fine again in win98 with Flash9
What I'm curious about:
Does the embedded-objects-block still work in km75?
Can find nearly nothing about it in the web, and unfortunately that sounds like it was related to some obsolete function. The pref is
permissions.default.object INT 1=allowed 2=blocked 3=domain allowed
Am using that all the time to block videos independant from javascript state.