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Are the features and codecs safari doesn't support part of WebKit? If so does that mean that any browser on iOS doesn't support it either?

Also, the article links to a blog post[0] about video with transparency, and although the performance is the main complaint I had no idea this was a thing! Worth the read if you enjoyed the article I think.

[0] https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/

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Every browser on iOS is WebKit unless you're from EU.

Yeah that's my point, but I'm not sure if codec support is implemented outside of that.

Nope, it's implemented in the browser engine. I honestly find it funny that, for example, Opera, Edge and Chrome are supposedly different browsers, even though it's all actually Chromium and there is no meaningful difference.

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