Grey shadows in the video bootstrap component

[Jhon Carlo]

Hi,

Is it possible to eliminate the gray shadow of the videos bootstrap component that appears before play a video?

Thanks.

[Jhon Carlo]

Thank you all for your help.

Yes I open the video with Chrome.

I used the "Responsive Video Embed" option of "Bootstrap component" because I need to have a responsive video,

and at my level I supposed to do it so.... or not?

Thank you again.

[BenPleysier]

  wrote

There is absolutely no reason to be using Bootstrap for that. None whatsoever.

Here we go again!

[Jhon Carlo]

About my last post at this point is there a question:

"I used the "Responsive Video Embed" option of "Bootstrap component" because I need to have a responsive video,

and at my level I supposed to do it so.... or not?"

Are there other ways to embed responsive video without "Bootstrap component"? If yes in wich way?

Thank you.

[Nancy OShea]

If you already use Bootstrap, keep doing what you're doing.

You cannot change how Chrome browser renders video.

[ALsp]

Sure. It's easy. Here's the problem, Jhon…

While people like Nancy actually like Bootstrap, the average Dreamweaver user has been led to believe that in order to build pages with Dreamweaver you use Bootstrap. Bootstrap is a free CSS library that was created by Twitter and released to the public as sort of a big feel-good type of institutional advertisement. Adobe, not having the capability to program its own page layout tools has simply included Bootstrap in Dreamweaver. The problem is that while Bootstrap is fashionable among non-coders and people who do not want to take the to properly and efficiently code a page, it might not be fashionable next month, or next year. This has happened before with Adobe. Prior to Bootstrap, the most trendy CSS library was Boilerplate. Adobe included Boilerplate in Dreamweaver CS6. Thousands of Dreamweaver users thought it was part of Dreamweaver and used it to build pages, only to find that Boilerplate was abandoned by its developers. Since Boilerplate was not Adobe code, Adobe had no obligation to support it. These poor users were left holding the bag... along with obsolete code, and Adobe simply washed its hands of it.

Some of the same so-called experts in these forums were singing the praises of Boilerplate a few years ago.

The same thing will happen with Bootstrap. As someone with advanced CSS skills, Bootstrap is disturbing. It's bloated and unwieldy.

I posted a link to an example page a few days ago. It contains your video and a single CSS rule in the head (as opposed to nearly a half megabyte of Bootstrap CSS and script) to make that video responsive.

The decision is yours, and you have a few choices:

1. Learn CSS an lay out your own pages, your own way.

2. Learn Bootstrap. If you  truly learn it, then you will never use it.

3. Learn to identify the people who actually know how to help you learn the craft of web design

I respect Nancy as a person, but not as a coder. I respectfully disagree with her positions on both Dreamweaver an Bootstrap. But in any event, I wish you luck.

[BenPleysier]

ALsp​

Here are some positive comments based on truths:

• Boilerplate is far from dead https://html5boilerplate.com/ the last update was on 1st May this year.
• Bootstrap will continue on, as Boilerplate has, because there is a large international community, including Twitter, constantly working on it
• One may consider Bootstrap to be "bloated", but there are many other factors that effect site performance and Bootstrap is not at the top of this list.

I made a choice many years ago.

1. I initially learned to lay out my own pages
2. I learned Bootstrap, truly learned it and have been using ever since
3. Learning the craft of web design involves, not only HTML, CSS and JS, you will need to know many other ever changing technologies and scripts, see Web technology for developers | MDN . I doubt if there is any person who frequents this forum who comes any where near being masters of the craft. As a starter and with the exception of AL, we all use the bloated jQuery Framework for the same reason why we use other frameworks.

I respect Nancy as a person and a coder. I respectfully agree with (most of ) her positions on Dreamweaver and Bootstrap. She is a great asset to this forum and should be applauded for it.

In conclusion, be it known that 1 in 6 websites have been created using Bootstrap and is fast approaching 1 in 5.

[ALsp]

Hi Ben,

As the husband of an academic researcher, I always look beyond the surface when it comes to statistics. She drilled it into me 🙂 Boilerplate is still technically alive... but very few people use it, and Adobe abandoned it for a good reason --

Not because Bootstrap is inherently better, but rather because it is fashionably trendy.

Your "favorable" Bootstrap stats were pretty well debunked this week so I won't rehash that. But Twitter? Really? One of the buggiest and slowest sites on the web? And are you absolutely, beyond the shadow of a doubt sure that Twitter actually uses Bootstrap?

I'm not goin to relent. You might think this is personal, but it's not. To roll over and not disagree with you would be, in my opinion, a grave disservice. As I've told you, if Bootstrap were good, we would simply use it and extend it, creating automation for it in Dreamweaver. We would be nuts to develop our own CSS if this were the case. But it isn't. And that's a fact.

[osgood_]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Nancy+OShea  wrote

osgood_   wrote

The video looks ok in Firefox. I dont see any of that grey fading effect in the image you posted.

Neither do I.   I tested in Firefox & MS Edge, no shadows.  But I do see shadows in Chrome.  So this is a browser thing and not a Bootstrap. thing.

Yeah, that's a weird one the mp4 seems to be serving different controls to different browsers.

[ALsp]

Different browsers have slightly different default controls for media.