Great read on how a few YouTube engineers bypassed the internal Google politics in order to abolish IE6 from their list of supported browsers: One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against […]
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The nightmare videos of childrens’ YouTube
James Bridle – whom you might know from his autonomous trap for self-driving cars – on the dangers of leaving your children on YouTube unattended: Writer and artist James Bridle uncovers a dark, strange corner of the internet, where unknown people or groups on YouTube hack the brains of young children in return for advertising […]
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Related: Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video →
Do you know YouTube from A to Z?
Relive some of YouTube’s best loved videos from the last decade with a game that tests your pop-culture knowledge. #HappyBirthdayYouTube Built using pixi.js Do you know YouTube from A to Z? →
YouTube Rewind 2014
YouTube Top Trending Videos 2014 (Global) → YouTube Top Trending Videos 2014 (Belgium) →
Video embeds for the Social
About half a year ago I’ve changed how I embed videos here on bram.us. No, I’m not embedding responsively but I’m embedding Vimeo and YouTube clips along with its poster frame (= the image you see before the video starts playing). Doing this will force Facebook and Google+ to show that image – and not […]
YouTube Rewind: What Does 2013 Say?
YouTube Rewind: What you watched in 2013 → YouTube Rewind 2013 →
Native iOS YouTube app
Google has released an all-new YouTube app for the iPhone and iPod touch, which it said it was working on last month when Apple revealed it was removing it from iOS 6. The new app is completely native, and in our brief time with it we found it to be fast and responsive. New YouTube […]
LG Smart TV YouTube App Hidden Gem: Device Pairing
This weekend I discovered something neat on my LG Smart TV (a 42LV5500): in the YouTube App, there’s an option to pair your mobile with the app itself. Once paired, you can use your iPhone to play a YouTube video on the TV. Now, it’s nothing like AirPlay mirroring but more a remote control feature […]
FitVids.js
FitVids.js is a lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds. FitVids automates the Intrinsic Ratio Method by Thierry Koblentz to achieve fluid width videos in your responsive web design.