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Can I haz appearance:none; for the video element ?

I didn't think this was gonna be so hard to make a video NOT have native controls. And it's not, at least not for the majority of web developers. You have a nice controls attribute on the video tag. Add it, you have native controls, don't add it and you won't. The thing is however that many sites for many different reasons specify their own controls using Javascript. And I'd like to continue doing the same for Wikipedia. And here is my problem pictured above. I call it the 'Flash of Native Controls'. Something like this is extremely distracting for visitors of the webcontent. The solution seems simple. Just remove that controls attribute from your HTML. But I'd rather not do that.. And the reason is because at Wikipedia, we have many re-users of our generated HTML content. But most of those re-users don't use the same JS stack. Removing the controls attribute means they won't have videocontrols. I want controls, I just want MY controls

El Capitan bluetooth woes

I got a new iMac recently and after transferring my account using Migration Assistant I rebooted the Mac. After this moment, for the life of me I could not get Bluetooth working anymore. In the menubar I had a nice icon with a squiggly line through it. In the console.app I could find nice informative lines like: IOBluetoothUSBDFUTool[324]: Could not get IOBluetoothUSBDFU service I went through tonnes of blogposts and forum posts with all kinds of advice. Mostly coming down to: Unplug all USB devices, shut down and the restart Reset your SMC None of this really worked. I then started the Mac in Safe mode by keeping the shift key pressed. Now I was able to use Bluetooth. Of course, you can't boot your Mac in Safe mode all the time..... But still this indicates that some 3rd party component was messing up. Possibly a kernel extension, or at least a preference connected to a kernel extension. I have a few elements installed, but I went with my gut feeling.. Logitech.