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It's an unfortunate use of Youtube embeds. Aside from letting people uncharitably dunk on them, the Youtube here isn't even doing anything. The YT video in ques

by gwern 2y ago

It's an unfortunate use of Youtube embeds. Aside from letting people uncharitably dunk on them, the Youtube here isn't even doing anything. The YT video in question is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Y8PwD5XDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Y8PwD5XDs , which is 57s long, has 2 worthless comments, no description/metadata/playlist/closed-captions/categories, and a yt-dlp takes literally 5s for me to download the 1.5MB MP4. (Which I think may actually be about the size of the full weight of the YT embed container based on the last post I saw here whining about YT embeds...?) This is a perfect candidate to host yourself and just slap it in some <video> tags.

slim 2y ago
also with <video> it does not get preloaded before you press play (in Firefox and chrome at least?
- deificx 2y ago
  Depends on what you set the preload attribute to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video#preload https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/vi...
whywhywhywhy 2y ago
this could honestly even be a gif if you just showed the app without the desktop background
- USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y ago
  GIFs are warts. There's no way to stop them, so they endlessly demand your attention.
  - klvino 2y ago
    It's possible to stop gifs if the domain framed them with the proper code. Unfortunately many people believe gif = png,jpg and exert zero effort to handle them differently.
  - gazby 2y ago
    I've often wondered why Discord is the only major platform client that provides an option to play gifs only on mouseover. It's incredibly effective at solving for the problem you describe.
    - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
      They're probably not GIFs, and I have to say this because it bugs the hell out of me. Half the """GIFs""" you see online are webm. Just put a webm. They work great.
  - lupire 2y ago
    You can tell your browser to stop them.
    - USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y ago
      Unconditionally, for all websites. I suppose nothing of value is lost.
      - bboygravity 2y ago
        I beg to differ: hamster dance.
  - eru 2y ago
    Depends on your browser, I guess?

by gwern 2y ago

slim 2y ago

also with <video> it does not get preloaded before you press play (in Firefox and chrome at least?

deificx 2y ago
Depends on what you set the preload attribute to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/video#preload https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/vi...

whywhywhywhy 2y ago

this could honestly even be a gif if you just showed the app without the desktop background

USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y ago
GIFs are warts. There's no way to stop them, so they endlessly demand your attention.
- klvino 2y ago
  It's possible to stop gifs if the domain framed them with the proper code. Unfortunately many people believe gif = png,jpg and exert zero effort to handle them differently.
- gazby 2y ago
  I've often wondered why Discord is the only major platform client that provides an option to play gifs only on mouseover. It's incredibly effective at solving for the problem you describe.
  - 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y ago
    They're probably not GIFs, and I have to say this because it bugs the hell out of me. Half the """GIFs""" you see online are webm. Just put a webm. They work great.
- lupire 2y ago
  You can tell your browser to stop them.
  - USiBqidmOOkAqRb 2y ago
    Unconditionally, for all websites. I suppose nothing of value is lost.
    - bboygravity 2y ago
      I beg to differ: hamster dance.
- eru 2y ago
  Depends on your browser, I guess?