An embeddable web player lives on rented land
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you have to guardrail against every leaky piece of CSS in every, like it's, it's a constant, um, it's a constant battle to keep that website's styles and, and defaults from coming through to your, to your section of the page that you've, that you're essentially living on rented land
Episode 205: Podscape (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:37:00 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Building an HTML/JavaScript audio-video player that gets pasted into other people's websites is one of the hardest UI jobs there is. Dave says you're in a constant battle against every leaky piece of the host's CSS, and a couple of times his team had to re-engineer the player's whole style system within 48 hours. The open web's wild west is why people dislike web UI.
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Episode 205: Podscape (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:38:13 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
the open web is great in many ways, but this is why also why people don't like UI for the web is because it has these problems. Um, it's a, it's the wild west.
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