[guardian-dev] EOL Orweb, focus on Firefox?

Abel Luck abel at guardianproject.info
Mon Aug 26 07:10:06 EDT 2013


Nathan of Guardian:
> 
> 
> Abel Luck <abel at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>> Nathan of Guardian:
>>> Here is a plan I would like feedback on:
>>>
>>> 1) don't fix Orweb html5 video issue (the workaround is horrendous)
>> and instead update the app to notify users about the risk and advise to
>> stop using.
>>>
>>
>> As a temporary workaround, can we make HTML5 video a checkbox option
>> like javascript is and have it disabled by default?
> 
> That is the rub and the bug. I have set all the proper settings to disable plugins and yet it doesn't work. There are no controls in the API apparently for html5 media components. Sucks.
> 

Ugh, ouch. Which means the only fool proof way to do it is to ship a
custom WebView :-(

~abel


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