ChrisMorrisCo

These are just some thoughts that were running through my head. I knew that Facebook provided a lot of information about users, but I never really put it into perspective and what the real dangers are of this.

Fair point... I suppose I prefer a uniform hit area size on the buttons throughout the UI. I probably have a bit of OCD :P.

I like the idea of moving them slightly off the screen to show that your window is clearly off the screen... but it might be better to indent the buttons further into the screen so that the close button is still the same size.

So... what if a bird flies into it?

I figured this may help as I had also seen a fair few results for people who couldn't figure out what was causing the issue.

Thanks. I did do a Google search prior to posting, but didn't see anything.

Mmm, yep, that test worked! :P

It is a bit old, I remember seeing this in 2010, I believe. It's weird to see how far Yahoo! have gone.

This may be old, not sure, but it's still great!

Thanks! I must have missed that the first time I read, I read the same information via the Chrome support page.

Does Google add protection against harmful websites? What if I typo a URL and it starts pre-loading a malware-filled website? Just curious.

A cool feature, but I think this should be opt-in.

Ahh, okay. Fair enough.

Yeah, it took me a while to find some HD videos. I noticed it when stumbling across an advert for Breaking Bad which was uploaded by a user, if I remember correctly.

I haven't tested on all of my computers yet, but I've updated to Chrome 17 on my Mac and the caching issue seems to have gone away. I believe I still have Chrome 16 on my Windows machine, so I'll hopefully be able to test them side-by-side.

I'm still having some problems with the player, but I've updated to Chrome 17 and my caching issue seems to have gone away. Not sure what the cause was.

That's a good point. However, the downside to HTML5 is that if your computer freezes for a moment, the video continues playing and you may have to rewind a few moments. Flash tends to pause the video when a computer freezes.

I haven't noticed my computer overheat nearly as much as it did with Flash, though, so that's great.

You may be right, however, some people haven't experienced the caching issue when using the same browser and version that I was using at the time of this post (Chrome 17 just came out), which makes me wonder if the download limitation was implemented by YouTube to conserve bandwidth should a user click off the video early, thus saving YouTube from sending the entire video to the user when they're not going to watch it.

Interestingly, my caching issue seems to have disappeared since updating to Chrome 17. I need to do some more tests, though.

I think you're right, though, more likely to be browser issues more so than YouTube issues.

I agree. They've done such a good job in mimicking the look of the Flash player than many in the HTML5 opt-in probably don't realise half the videos they watch are presented in Flash.

Thanks for the links, very interesting reads. I agree that the HTML5 player has vastly improved, but if the issues I'm experiencing with the player now persist, I don't think that it's nearly ready to replace Flash - or, I don't think they should.

You're right, it must be a Chrome issue. I just clicked your link and it worked this time the video is having the same jittery playback I experience on YouTube's HTML5 player.

Hmm, it might be that I've used two large background images plus transparency on top of them. I may have to re-design. Sorry about that. It's still a work in progress, actually, so if you change your browser width to below around 760px, the CSS should disappear.

So you've had that caching issue with Flash as well? I'm wondering if it's YouTube setting a limit to how much video can be downloaded in the case that the user clicks off the video early, thus saving bandwidth. If it is, then I simply won't be able to use YouTube HD anymore.

That's really good, re: multiple monitors. That's one thing that really bugged me about Flash.

Oh good, so I'm not the only one with the caching issue! Wait, that's bad actually, haha. Were you using Chrome to test the cache? I'm going to try FireFox as well as that apparently hasn't had the buffering issue, so it may not have the caching issue either.

Weird that you don't have that resizing/offset issue when exiting fullscreen, but rather when toggling between video sizes. Everybody seems to be having different experiences.

Nope, I'm merely browsing the YouTube website. Are you using Chrome 16 as well?

Your link isn't working for me. I'll test out some other browsers shortly. I'm surprised that Google wouldn't optimise the HTML5 player to fit YouTube considering they own both products.

I'll try FireFox 10 in a moment, by the way.

I haven't tried on Windows, but on my Mac my dock is set on the right-hand side of my screen. This means that if I move the mouse to the bottom-right or top-right corner, the dock sometimes pops up if I'm not careful. I can't move it to the other side either because the mouse hit's the wall, so to speak. I think I just have to get used to it.

That's interesting. So you can use 1080p just fine? May I ask what download rate you generally get when browsing YouTube?

I didn't have any issues with the sound, but my computers all have one sound output apart from one which is connected to a sound system. I plug my headset into the sound system, though, so I've never had an issue.

Seems people aren't getting a uniform experience at all =/.