Wider Default Audio Player in Chrome? |
December 11th, 2022 |
| tech |
My kids like to listen to story tapes. Most of them their great
grandmother recorded onto cassettes in the 1980s, their grandmother
digitized in the 2000s, and I reworked for the web in the 2020s. We
usually use either a tablet or old phone to play them back, and while
the browser mostly works fine for this it's terrible for seeking:
The bar is so short that it's very hard to seek accurately, especially when a story is three hours long.
You might think that if you turned it sideways you would get a wider bar offering more precision, but no:
Popping width: 98% on the element in devtools gives a
much more usable display:
Or, in landscape,
I wonder if this is really a one-line change, and whether Chrome would be interested in a patch?
Firefox is much better, in landscape:
Though about the same in portrait:
Follow-up: Zooming the Chrome Audio Player
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