Timestamp on videos with message bubbles obstructs controls

[t3chguy]

We might need to have alternate placement for timestamps here, we have no way of knowing the position/dimensions of the video controls as they vary per browser/environment.

[amshakal]

Hi, I think it's okay for timestamp to not be visible once a video is playing. By the time when it's on the state below it's visible. I have also added a small gradient overlay at the bottom to make sure the time stamp is visible on images as well as videos.

Link to Figma: https://www.figma.com/file/zVtAKK0hzKu5JkpbzlE1pG/Message-Bubbles?node-id=1691%3A38484

[t3chguy]

Hi, I think it's okay for timestamp to not be visible once a video is playing.

This doesn't scale well, the pre-playback (poster) view is dependent on browser doesn't look very much like what the Figma assumes, it has the controls there already. Designing our own video playback components would be a lot of work to scope-creep into Bubbles work.

Chrome:

Firefox

We also allow the user to have their videos autoplay to match other platforms, so then they would never see the timestamp of the video anyway.

[daniellekirkwood]

This is great feedback, and there's definitely improvements to be made but for our first release I'm choosing to descope this.

I will mark this as V2 and as an Enhancement, we can come back to it after launch