I don't think that is a bad thing, considering that a YouTube video in HD would be 500MB and people flick through them like web pages. I agree with OP that if

I don't think that is a bad thing, considering that a YouTube video in HD would be 500MB and people flick through them like web pages. I agree with OP that if you are on a powerful machine with fast internet it would be better just to load a massive HTML document of list items.