{"id":31179,"date":"2016-03-15T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T00:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31179"},"modified":"2016-03-15T19:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T00:33:31","slug":"diecast-autoplays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=31179","title":{"rendered":"Diecast Autoplays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear valued Firefox reader: Yes, I know the Diecast is autoplaying when you visit the site. I’m just putting up this post as a catch-all so people don’t feel obliged to comment \/ email \/ tweet about it to me. <\/p>\n

Sadly, it’s a bug in Firefox. Specifically, Firefox is incorrectly ignoring the autoplay=”false” directive. A few people have worked out the conditions required for the problem to manifest, which you can read about here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Supposedly I could fix this by dumping the legacy <embed> tags and use only HTML5. That would (possibly) fix things for Firefox users, at the expense of people using old browsers or… pfft. I dunno. I don’t know how important the embed tag is, to be honest. <\/p>\n

After some deliberation, I figured it’s a bad idea to punish non-Firefox people for the bugs in FF, so I’m keeping the embed for now. (Although I’d welcome some speculation \/ information on who uses it and how important it is.) As a temporary fix, I’ve moved the audio player off the front page for now. Hopefully the FF team gets this hammered out quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear valued Firefox reader: Yes, I know the Diecast is autoplaying when you visit the site. I’m just putting up this post as a catch-all so people don’t feel obliged to comment \/ email \/ tweet about it to me. Sadly, it’s a bug in Firefox. Specifically, Firefox is incorrectly ignoring the autoplay=”false” directive. A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[567],"class_list":["post-31179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notices","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}