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Direct link to the article lite-youtube-embed
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lite-youtube-embed

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A standard copy-and-paste YouTube embed lands on your page as an <iframe></iframe> which loads a big ol’ pile of other stuff to play that video. But the UX of it is still essentially an image and a play button. Click …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 13, 2019
Direct link to the article Lazy load embedded YouTube videos
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Lazy load embedded YouTube videos

This is a very clever idea via Arthur Corenzan. Rather than use the default YouTube embed, which adds a crapload of resources to a page whether the user plays the video or not, use the little tiny placeholder webpage that …

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Chris Coyier on Aug 20, 2019 (Updated on Aug 31, 2020)
Direct link to the article A Conspiracy to Kill IE6
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A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

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Chris Zacharias published a few notes about why the team at YouTube added a banner that asked users to switch from IE6 to a more modern browser back in 2009:

The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so

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Shared by Robin Rendle on May 6, 2019
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None of the videos in our entire video screencasts library have captions / subtitles / transcripts. That means all of that content is rather useless to the deaf, as was made quite clear to me in this recent email:

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Chris Coyier on Jan 21, 2017
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