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Comment by mig4ng | Hacker News Reader

Amazing job, I have a few suggestions on how to improve its UX:

- Clicking the video should pause/play;

- Clicking the volume button on mobile when the volume bar is hidden should not mute the video, instead it should just show the volume bar;

- Interacting with the volume UI on mobile should reset the time until the UI hides, the UI hides while I'm ajusting the volume.

These are a few points I think should be improved, I'd love to hear others opinions on whether or not these make sense :)

Keep the great work!

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Thanks for the suggestions!

1. Absolutely, it's on my radar.

2 & 3. According to me, the volume button seems off in mobile. I think I'll remove it completely on mobile devices, people are used to lowering the volume with the physical buttons (assumption). What do you think?

> 2 & 3. According to me, the volume button seems off in mobile. I think I'll remove it completely on mobile devices, people are used to lowering the volume with the physical buttons (assumption). What do you think?

To facilitate mobile development of the library its probably the best approach, at least for now and you can revisit the issues later on :)

+1 for conditionally removing the volume bar.

Mobile is (typically) a single mode application situation, as in, there's no need to control volumes of simultaneous applications separately. It would also be easy to argue that almost no-one needs that feature.

Another suggestion:

- Add possibility to watch the player on landscape mode even when this option is disabled in the device settings, I'm not sure it is possible but if so it would be a great feature :P

Do you mean something like: "force the player in landscape mode when you hit the fullscreen button on a mobile device?". I like it, YouTube does that with it's mobile apps and I find it practical.

> Do you mean something like: "force the player in landscape mode when you hit the fullscreen button on a mobile device?". I like it, YouTube does that with it's mobile apps and I find it practical.

Exactly, I also find it useful and get annoyed when I have to manually activate landscape mode on my device to get the player to use the whole screen (I have auto rotation disabled most of the time).

I'd vote for this - toggling landscape manually is icky. If I press fullscreen the default for video should be landscape mode always.

Just to jump on these, traditionally hitting the space bar will also toggle play/pause.

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