My goodness. I remember having to explain this to my manager. They really wanted recording + playback in our platform. For as many browsers as possible. Even mobile (iOS, I'm looking daggers at you). In 2015.

AFAIR I just said fuck it and made playback as permissive as possible (i.e., only prevent media playback if canPlayType returned ""). I don't know how advisable that is but the bug got off my back anyway.

I dunno what makes this so difficult, why we can't get at least a definite "yes" even in 2021.

That's like my washing machine which has a Normal setting, a Standard setting, a Wash setting...

Do you mean as in "If the washing machine has a Wash setting, what does it do if it is not set to Wash?"

And what's the difference between normal and standard?

Wat