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It's not a YouTube issue, but a browser issue. HTML5 video was rushed and poorly implemented by the browser makers. I'm a Chrome user, so I can't speak for the
by jinushaun 15y ago
It's not a YouTube issue, but a browser issue. HTML5 video was rushed and poorly implemented by the browser makers. I'm a Chrome user, so I can't speak for the Firefox and IE experience, but this awful user experience is true whenever I watch any HTML 5 video in Chrome. It's extremely frustrating, especially when it's missing simple things like buffering, caching and continuing download on pause. Give me Flash video any day.
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- ChrisMorrisCo 15y agoYou may be right, however, some people haven't experienced the caching issue when using the same browser and version that I was using at the time of this post (Chrome 17 just came out), which makes me wonder if the download limitation was implemented by YouTube to conserve bandwidth should a user click off the video early, thus saving YouTube from sending the entire video to the user when they're not going to watch it. Interestingly, my caching issue seems to have disappeared since updating to Chrome 17. I need to do some more tests, though. I think you're right, though, more likely to be browser issues more so than YouTube issues.