It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
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 the play button and the video plays. You can build essentially the same thing with an anchor link wrapping an image!
Not long ago, we covered a very clever "lazy load" technique doing exactly this from Arthur Corenzan that was … Read article
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 is just an image you can click that is linked to the YouTube embed.
It still behaves essentially exactly the same: click, play video in place.… Read article
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:
… Read articleThe bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube
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:
… Read articleI'm a big fan of CSS-Tricks and I make a lot of use of your written content, however the same can't be said for your videos as I'm deaf. It may not be viable for your business but subtitles on your