Bad news discovered during the alpha: Safari on iPhone is not supported by this development ![]()
This development uses the « MediaSource » API, which is not supported by iPhone Safari:
Safari on iPadOS 13 supports it, as does Safari on macOS, so we can hope it will come to iOS in upcoming releases ![]()
iOS users will therefore see this message for now:
No trolling intended, this API has been available on Android since 2014 and on many other browsers for quite some time (I’m saying this even though I’m full Apple
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I don’t think it’s a technical blocker, but more of a « competitive » block to prevent competitors from creating custom video players on mobile. Let’s hope that changes!
Edit: My research on Twitter shows a reply from an Apple engineer who works on WebKit and who says that it is indeed a technical limitation; the implementation on macOS and iPadOS is not satisfactory according to them and they want to do better on iOS:


