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Improve audio and video support across browsers
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Description

A few cross-browser issues have come up during review lately:

  1. .ogg files aren't supported natively in Safari, so for these files the audio player displays but does nothing, which is confusing
  2. At least some videos don't work in Safari:

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  1. audio and video elements aren't working in IE11:

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Things are looking good in recent versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. We should also test this in mobile Safari, at least.

Thanks to @Etonkovidova for the screenshots and for identifying these issues!

Event Timeline

I'm hoping/assuming that completing T257637 will ensure that files are playable across different browsers regardless of format.

Oh cool, I missed that! I'm going to move some of this over to that ticket and add some acceptance criteria just to make sure it's covered, then close this.

Closing as a duplicate

@AnneT: Feel free to use Edit Related Tasks...Close As Duplicate in the upper right corner in such cases. Thanks!