Ask HN: Honestly, what's the deal with YouTube's play bar?

Re:Ask HN: Honestly, what's the deal with YouTube's play bar? by Rifu on Monday August 03, 2015 @06:38AM (#9994846)

If you hold the circle that's "in the way", it'll allow you to scrub through the video.

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Re:Ask HN: Honestly, what's the deal with YouTube's play bar? by hello_there_you on Monday August 03, 2015 @08:16AM (#9995179)

Try doing that on a touchpad(is that the word?). First when you click the circle, it moves a couple of cm, then you have to try to move your fingertip slooowly towards the time you want to start from. I mean, come on people... what are we doing here?

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Re:Ask HN: Honestly, what's the deal with YouTube's play bar? by mahouse on Monday August 03, 2015 @09:56AM (#9995799)

Get a better touchpad?

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Re:Ask HN: Honestly, what's the deal with YouTube's play bar? by hello_there_you on Monday August 03, 2015 @10:07AM (#9995873)

Right. Jokes aside, I'm currently using a pretty new MBP. Still not understanding the problem here. How is the circle a good idea? There must be some technical reason for why they went with it. I can't imagine anyone testing it out for more than 5 minutes before thinking "Yep, this clearly sucks".

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