You have a great piece of software. It is popular, so even included as convenience code copies in other projects. You choose to clean that up and package it separately. ...except it turns out that you cannot compile the code - source exist as ActionScript3 but the free compiler in swftools fails somehow. What to do? You just put a disclaimer in long description, explaining that this package doesn't really do what it is supposed to do. That's the story so far of libjs-mediaelement, which entered testing few hours ago. Description: HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with Flash and Silverlight shims Instead of offering an HTML5 player to modern browsers and a totally separate Flash player to older browsers, MediaElement.js upgrades them with custom Flash and Silverlight plugins that mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API. . The current package does not yet provide the Flash and Silverlight plugins. Might seem fine - it is a javascript-based video player, right? Wrong: Upstream describes it at <http://mediaelementjs.com/> as "pure HTML and CSS" with "Flash and Silverlight players that mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API for older browsers". In other words, mediaelement.js is a so-called polyfill - it does nothing on modern browsers, and mimics modern features on older browsers. ...except it really does nothing when that mimic'ing code is missing. Can someone please advice: Should I reassign bug#760297 to the tech-ctte or am I being crazy (and a pain in the butt) here? - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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