Is it wrong of me to imagine a world without flash?
(For those playing at home, when you post a youtube link, livejournal "helpfully" adds some embedded HTML that's loaded from a separate site called http://lj-toys.com. If you have flash, then you see the video embedded as part of the journal entry. But if you don't have flash, all you see is a blank page. It doesn't show you the actual youtube link: the only way to find it is to extract the lj-toys URL using 'view page source' then visit *that* URL and do 'view page source' *again*.
You might of course wonder: "But Bill, if you don't have flash, how do you expect to view youtube videos in the first place?" The answer is: with http://keepvid.com and mplayer. Of course, for that, I need to know the original youtube URL, which I can't see thanks to all the fancy-shmancy automatic embedding.
This concludes today's flash rant. We now return you to your regularly scheduled angst and drame, already in progress.)
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Date: 2009-01-26 08:17 pm (UTC)Is it wrong of me to imagine a world without flash?
(For those playing at home, when you post a youtube link, livejournal "helpfully" adds some embedded HTML that's loaded from a separate site called http://lj-toys.com. If you have flash, then you see the video embedded as part of the journal entry. But if you don't have flash, all you see is a blank page. It doesn't show you the actual youtube link: the only way to find it is to extract the lj-toys URL using 'view page source' then visit *that* URL and do 'view page source' *again*.
You might of course wonder: "But Bill, if you don't have flash, how do you expect to view youtube videos in the first place?" The answer is: with http://keepvid.com and mplayer. Of course, for that, I need to know the original youtube URL, which I can't see thanks to all the fancy-shmancy automatic embedding.
This concludes today's flash rant. We now return you to your regularly scheduled angst and drame, already in progress.)