Last modified: 2014-11-13 07:44:58 UTC
The current experience clicking on a Wikimedia video in IE is very poor; you just get a direct link to a .webm file which by default won't play. There's a vaguely worded link about support which, if you carefully read the linked page, can direct you to the Google WebM for IE plugin download page -- which makes video "just work" once installed -- but it's really not easy to find. Ideally, clicking on a WebM-mode video playback should take you directly to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/webmmf/ [Deploying ogv.js (bug 61823) should also help by making default-size playback dependent only on standard JS and Flash audio, but we'll still need the IE WebM plugin to support HD playback.] Might implement this in TimedMediaHandler something like the iOS VLC App mode -- enable only when needed, claim WebM support, but link out to the plugin download page. Then when coming back, reload and the page should pick up the plugin 'natively'.
Change 172948 had a related patch set uploaded by Brion VIBBER: User-friendly prompt to install WebM components for Internet Explorer https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/172948
