I'm using window.matchMedia conditional in order to avoid the inject of a video in mobile devices. Here it says that matchMedia is going to work smoothly since Safari 9 (I'm testing on it), but my code is completly ignored:
if ( window.matchMedia("(min-width: 1025px").matches) {
console.log('match');
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { initialiseMediaPlayer(); }, false);
function initialiseMediaPlayer() {
(stuff here...)
}
}
This code works perfectly on Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, IE and Edge.
Does anyone had a similar issue?
The issue is in the formatting, oddly enough the other browsers fix the behavior even though it is malformed. It's missing an additional closing ")" parenthesis after the 1025px. Try:
if ( window.matchMedia('(min-width:1025px)').matches) {
console.log('match');
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() { initialiseMediaPlayer(); }, false);
function initialiseMediaPlayer() {
(stuff here...)
}
}
For anyone else who may come across similar issues, I found that in safari you need to include 'screen and' as well as the width setting. Other browsers seem to assume that you are talking about the screen width but safari needs it specified, at least in my case. so would be something like:
if ( window.matchMedia('screen and (min-width:1025px)').matches) {}
in this case