5 ms·

I agree completely. When there's a looping video below the fold, I'd rather start it with a click, instead of having to watch it up to twice just to see the cli

• dragontamer 5y ago
  Then click the button to replay the clip from the beginning if that really is your problem. But you won't. Because the clips are 5 to 20 seconds long. So its faster to just wait for the loop than even to move your hand to the mouse.
  • danachow 5y ago
    Seriously? It takes you 5 to 20 seconds to move your hand to the mouse?
  • pushrax 5y ago
    I will seek when the option is presented. It’s either tiny or nonexistent though (e.g. for gifs, or if the author didn’t enable the video controls, which default to disabled in many browsers). I’m happiest when a video loads paused, and has a giant play button on it. How are you scrolling? When I’m browsing and reading my hand lives on the mouse. On mobile it’s even easier to click to play. In either case, clicking on a video takes less than 1 second. I do agree that extremely short loops can be a different story, but 20 seconds is by far over that time for me. 5 seconds is around the threshold. I’m sure this preference varies by person.
    • dragontamer 5y ago
      > When I’m browsing and reading my hand lives on the mouse. My hand lives either on the space bar, or the page-down button. Both of which are far more efficient at scrolling through pages of text.
      • ant6n 5y ago
        > My hand lives either on the space bar, or the page-down button. Both of which are far more efficient at scrolling through pages of text. Neither pgDown nor space bar scroll.