Youtube Onebox feature request - title and link
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I don't watch videos embedded. Ever. Because I like watching things without stuttering. And full screen. And without crashing the Single Page App I'm on.
Also, I kinda like to know WHAT the title of the video is before I press play, because I might not be interested.
Can we just put the title of the YouTube video above and/or below the embed, as a hyperlink to the youtube page itself?
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I suggested this here and here, but I'm not sure if the YouTube plugin is being actively developed.
Adding the title outside of the embed would be good enough for me.
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@Choonster said in Youtube Onebox feature request - title and link:
I suggested this here and here, but I'm not sure if the YouTube plugin is being actively developed.
Oh goodie. A plugin for a piece of software less than 2 years old that's already abandoned. And we're using it. To target YouTube-- a website that is perpetually updated.
Adding the title outside of the embed would be good enough for me.
I'd be okay with that, since the URL is inside a div somewhere. But the title isn't anywhere.
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The default YouTube embedded player already has a title in it that you can middle click into a new tab. Not sure why the plugin we have is rolling its own implementation.
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@LB_ said in Youtube Onebox feature request - title and link:
Not sure why the plugin we have is rolling its own implementation.
Web 3.0: Re-implement Everything (Poorly)
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@LB_ said in Youtube Onebox feature request - title and link:
The default YouTube embedded player already has a title in it that you can middle click into a new tab. Not sure why the plugin we have is rolling its own implementation.
Wait...you want to DoS youtube?
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@LB_ Because it's apparently too fucking stupid to have a different behavior in the Preview window than it does after being posted. Which, I remind you, even fucking DISCOURSE figured out how to do correctly after a couple iterations.
So if it wasn't a static image, it'd reload the video embed on every fucking keystroke while you were posting your video. Which is FUCKING AWFUL. Significantly worse than we have now, because at least now the horrible buggy shit code only affects ourselves.
Look, we're using REALLY REALLY SHITTY SOFTWARE, you have to stop asking questions like that because if I have to explain exactly HOW it's shitty to answer your question, it makes me angry.
Oh, and for the record, there's still like 3427463 ways the Preview window can DoS other sites, because that same bug applies to our other onebox plugin which is exactly as buggy and shitty and Boomzilla refuses to turn off.
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@blakeyrat said in Youtube Onebox feature request - title and link:
you have to stop asking questions like that because if I have to explain exactly HOW it's shitty to answer your question, it makes me angry.
HE DIDN'T ASK YOU FOR HELP!
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@Jaloopa Correct.