I’m just getting the release candidate for Able Player 4.8 ready. This isn’t as large a release as the last one, but it does include some pretty significant changes! The most significant changes are in internationalization and in my progress towards removing jQuery and cookies. The release is currently scheduled for February 2nd, 2026; but could get pushed if there are new bugs in the release candidate that need fixing first. Internationalization Until this release, translations have existed as properties […]
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Able Player: version 4.7.0 beta 1 looking for testing!
Able Player version 4.7.0 beta 1 is now ready for testing – and your feedback is welcome! There are quite a few bug fixes in this release, a fair amount of code polish, and a new base design. New Base Design The base design is not visually significantly different; the goal wasn’t to make radical changes in appearance. However, it incorporates a lot of changes with specific goals in mind: Feature Updates There are a couple of major new features. […]
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I was asked a completely reasonable question today: what is it that the video element sucks at where Able Player excels? The framing of this is basically “what does the native video element do wrong”, and that’s not really the point. It’s a hard job to nail down exactly what native video does wrong, and that’s part of why you’d use a 3rd party player in general. The native video element is, in a word, inconsistent. Browsers have different user […]
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I released my first update version of Able Player today, along with the major update to the Able Player WordPress plugin. This isn’t a particularly ambitious release of Able Player, but it does resolve a lot of long-standing bugs, modernizes some of the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), and cleans up a variety of issues in the package. I’ll be continuing with the practice of keeping the Able Player documentation in place on Github, so you can read the complete changelog […]
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After taking over Able Player, I received feedback from various sources about the kinds of problems people are having with the accessible media player. While there are miscellaneous observations of bugs and support gaps, the majority of comments were actually about using the player. These aren’t really issues with the JavaScript package itself; they’re about implementation. The Drupal plugin already interfaces with Drupal’s media library. But the WordPress plugin was considerably less powerful – it could only implement Able Player […]
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