And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback.
Often I find myself using youtube-dl to fetch a youtube video and just play it in a regular media player because it just works better than what browsers have to offer.
There even are addons to export YT playlists to VLC and stream them.
pdfjs is great. but every 3rd scientific paper I read tends to be somewhat broken (missing diagrams/images) or sometimes fails to render completely. native readers provide a better experience and better render times.
>And mimicking native can often lead to bad results. But to go from that and say that we shouldn’t try.
Maybe sometimes it would be better to provide better integration with native applications?
Native applications and browsers really don't like talking to each other.
And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback.
Often I find myself using youtube-dl to fetch a youtube video and just play it in a regular media player because it just works better than what browsers have to offer. There even are addons to export YT playlists to VLC and stream them.
pdfjs is great. but every 3rd scientific paper I read tends to be somewhat broken (missing diagrams/images) or sometimes fails to render completely. native readers provide a better experience and better render times.
>And mimicking native can often lead to bad results. But to go from that and say that we shouldn’t try.
Maybe sometimes it would be better to provide better integration with native applications?
Native applications and browsers really don't like talking to each other.