Great! Thank you Roan.
-----Original Message----- From: roan.kattouw@gmail.com [mailto:roan.kattouw@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roan Kattouw Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 4:18 PM To: Rob Macias (Axelerate) Cc: James Forrester; Moriel Schottlender; Ecosystem Engineering IE; Colleen Williams; David Catuhe; Maria Naggaga Nakanwagi; Timo Tijhof; Oliver Keyes; Erik Zachte; multimedia@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: IE & Wikipedia [Microsoft] (Ref# 741977)
Actually copying in the multimedia mailing list correctly this time.
Note: this mailing list is open to the public, and any emails you send to it will be publicly archived forever at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia . This is standard fare for Wikimedians, but the Microsoft people on this thread may not be used to this.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Roan Kattouw rkattouw@wikimedia.org wrote:
Copying in:
- Multimedia team because this concerns video playback
- Oliver because he maintains ua-parser
- Erik Z because he maintains browser statistics
- Timo because he cares about browsers and relationships with the
browser communities
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Rob Macias (Axelerate) v-romac@microsoft.com wrote:
Hello All,
As you may have heard, we rolled out a new Windows 10 preview build with significant IE interoperability updates and wanted to make sure our Wikipedia partners are in the loop. A major part of this update is the “Edge” mode platform, which seems to affect how IE is being detected – this is leading to Video playback errors when visiting the wikimedia.org domain. More info on ‘living on the edge’ exists here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/11/11/living-on-the-edge-our- next-step-in-interoperability.aspx
To our Wikipedia folks:
Mind taking a look at this? Bug detail has been pasted below including steps to reproduce and developer notes. If you aren’t already a member of the Windows Insider Program, we recommend doing so OR you can download RemoteIE, which provides another option for testing your site in the latest version of IE.
I'm not aware of us being a member. Timo, could you look into whether we are, and whether we should be?
RemoteIE looks really useful. It doesn't seem to be available for Ubuntu though? Our engineering staff is split roughly 50/50 between Mac OS and Ubuntu / other Linux flavors, so if RemoteIE is only available for Windows and Mac OS on desktop, then it's only useful for about half our staff. But that's still a heck of a lot better than passing a Windows laptop around the office :)
(Bug Specs)
Reference #: 741977
Description of the Problem: commons.wikimedia.org: Video is not being played
Steps to Reproduce:
Navigate to URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.
Scroll down to video window
Invoke Play button to play video/ audio on the page.
Actual Result:
Video is not being played only black screen is displayed and instead of playing video, it is asking to save the file.
Expected Result:
Video should load and play properly.
Multimedia team, could you guys look into this?
Developer Notes:
With the introduction of the Edge mode platform, the site needs to account for the latest UA string changes. See below:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.4; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.143 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.0
These changes help prevent IE from being (incorrectly) identified as an earlier version.
Thanks for letting us know that the UA string changed.
Timo, Oliver and Erik Z: you guys should know about this UA string change. It'll affect jquery.client, ua-parser, our browser stats, and probably other bits of code here and there that will presumably identify this UA as Chrome 36 rather than IE 12.
Please let me know if you have an estimated timeframe to address this issue, and if our team can further assist in this process.
Most likely, someone on the multimedia team will file a ticket for this in our public bug tracker, which you can subscribe to.
Roan