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> He notes that YouTube "still serves the pre-Polymer design" to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11, which launched in 2013 and has been replaced by Edge, and sug
by joombaga 8y ago
> He notes that YouTube "still serves the pre-Polymer design" to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11, which launched in 2013 and has been replaced by Edge, and suggests that Google could have taken the same approach with Edge and Firefox.
Okay, but without new features? Does the pre-polymer design served to IE maintain feature-parity with the shadow DOM (or its' polyfill equivalent)? Because YouTube never _seemed_ slow to me on FIrefox, but I'd hate to miss new features.
- dingaling 8y agoWhat new UI features does a video-catalogue website really need, though? They've reached or passed maturity and are adding dubious features like the miniplayer that keeps playing the video you've just back-buttoned out of. Things that benefit advetisers, not users. The truly beneficial features should be server-side; culling those awful 'Top 10 Shocking ...' videos from my recommendations, for example. Or realising that just because I watched one programme about military re-enactment, once in ten years, I probably don't want to watch another 30.