Looking for an iPhone browser that will let me tell any of a number of videos on the same webpage to open in its own tab. Any suggestion, please?
iPhone 4S, iOS 8.3
welafever is correct. If you lightly touch and hold the video, you should see this screen:
Jim Andersen wrote:
No, I’m afraid not. The result I get is an active, playing video in a separate tab, with the video’s direct address displayed in the browser’s address bar.
Ok. I'll test it on when I get home. All I got was a frame. But, I didn't test it once I started to play the video.
But whether you get the same result on your PC or not is beside the point, because the app I seek has all to do with the iPhone and nothing to do with a PC.
It's relevant in as far as it gives me an idea about what is or is not possible with the website. If it weren't possible with a desktop browser, there'd be little point in exploring further, in my opinion as mobile browsers tend to have fewer features. And, therein lies the problem. It's quite possible that what you want is just not something that any of the mobile browsers can do.
For what it's worth, I just tried requesting the desktop version of the first site you listed and it doesn't do what you want (in Safari) on the iPhone, either. I also can't get the pop-up menu you see when I try to open the video in a different tab in Chrome on Windows 10.
when I click on a video (depending on what site it is on) I get an option of an arrow or 3D pressing it to automatically open in its own tab. Also, when the controls for the videos come up there is usually a share option.
Can you give me a link to one of these sites you're talking about?
Thank you, but that’s not what I’m looking for, because a link is not offered in the described webpage.
To explain, clicking on a video in a typical iPhone browser will only play the video, and you have no other option. What I want is to be GIVEN the option to open the video in a new tab. Only then, you see, would you finally get a link to the video, as displayed in the address bar of the new tab.
I’m trying to gain a direct link to the video; to any video I speak of. On a desktop, for instance, I can easily right-click on most videos and be given an “Open in new tab” option, which then gives me the desired link. But I can’t do that on any of the more popular browsers I have tried on my iPhone. I have also found no other equally easy way to gain the link, so I thought it best to just look for a browser that has the same “new tab” feature already available on common desktop browsers.
That said; if you know of a different but equally easy way to extract the link, I’m all for it!
Thank you for working with me on this.
Thank you, again, but no, I am not talking about sites that offer the menu exemplified by the above screenshot of a video at YouTube.com. I am talking about videos offered for view on pages or through websites that do NOT offer such a menu.
I am talking about videos will only PLAY when you click on them and that, typically, would then only PAUSE when you click on them again, and where NO OTHER OPTION is ever presented.
What I want, then, to address the absence of the menu depicted by, for example, the YouTube screenshot, is an app that presents ITS OWN MENU that includes “Open in New Tab” as an option when the video is clicked or pressed. I suppose a “Share” option would suffice, but that would probably require an extra step when asking you to choose between email, text, Messenger or what have you. It would just be simplest to have the browser open the video in a new tab and to then copy the address, just as can be done with almost any video on most or all popular desktop browsers.
Does that help, as we still look for a solution? I’m just surprised I cannot find an iPhone compatible browser with such a basic feature. I have tried Safari, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Chrome, and others, all to no avail. None of them offer this simple feature.
Sure! Such sites are very common. Here are a few links for you. Just scroll through each page until you find a video to work with.
https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-disappearing-male/
http://viralmotion.net/news/us/arrogant-contestant-gets-first-question-wrong-wan ts-millionaire/
http://www.wsiltv.com/story/38722162/report-violence-on-the-rise-at-idjj-facilit ies
I appreciate your effort, IdrisSeabright, but it is not a coding issue. Take the first link, for instance: On my Windows 7 laptop, using only a Firefox browser, and after I click to play the video, I can immediately right-click to get menus that include the options: This Frame > Open Frame in New Tab. (See attached pic.) After then clicking those menu options, the video opens in a new tab and its link is immediately found in the browser’s address bar for that tab.
So it seems reasonable that a mobile app for an iPhone ought to be able to do the same thing, and I think it’s just a matter of finding the app. Please, does anyone know what app that might be?
No, I’m afraid not. The result I get is an active, playing video in a separate tab, with the video’s direct address displayed in the browser’s address bar.
But whether you get the same result on your PC or not is beside the point, because the app I seek has all to do with the iPhone and nothing to do with a PC. I explained the situation with my PC only to illustrate the possibility of what I seek. It is possible. It has nothing to do with coding. And all I need to do is find an app that will handle this simple function.
Sure hope someone knows of one! ;)
I am not trying to argue, I am trying to understand why you would need this feature so that I can make a better suggestion.
tapping on the video brings up the menu controls and one of them is a share button.
I only checked out the first link. However, I can't get the videos to open in a separate tab even on my computer. I'm guessing that the way the sites are coded prevents what you want to do.
But that's only giving you the option to open the frame, essentially a static picture, not the video itself. That's what I'm seeing on my computer.
Thank you, IdrisSeabright. I appreciate your attention to this.
Separate Tab for Video
