Re: [Multimedia] IE & Wikipedia [Microsoft] (Ref# 741977) - Multimedia

13 Nov 2014

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 &lt;rkattouw(a)wikimedia.org&gt; 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)
 &lt;v-romac(a)microsoft.com&gt; 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-s…

 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:

 1. Navigate to URL: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.

 2. Scroll down to video window

 3. 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 