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Uh, duh? That's because HLS is not a web standard and never will be so nobody else is going to bother building it into their browsers. The standard (ISO/IEC 23009-1:2012) way to do adaptive bitrate streaming is MPEG-DASH.


Microsoft Edge and Chrome on Android both support HTTP Live Streaming.




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