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Media query support for video <source> elements

Category

Multimedia

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 120)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Adds support for CSS media queries to <source> elements used with <video> elements. Allowing developers to use media query syntax to tell the browser which source should be preferred for a given environment.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/media.html#loading-the-media-resource
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: Shipped/Shipping
• Web developers: Positive — 12 stars on the issue. Developers are passionate enough to implement the feature themselves in Firefox.
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1450316

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/source#media

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