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Yeah. I mean he's just using a regular ol' <video> tag. So you would presumably have that same issue with any site using HTML5 media tags.


Or at least any site with a <video> tag. It will be nice once the standard become ubiquitous. Until then <video> causes decidedly non-deterministic things to happen on the client.

I'd still like the ability to approve/disapprove a site that's about to play a 115meg video file as a background!


If your browser supports WebM, that version of the file is only 6.5MB. I include the MP4 as a backup.


Would it be feasible to fall back to an animated gif, or even just a static image? It took so long to load that I was done reading the page, and was looking at the fine print when it started playing, and that was a little bit jarring. Moreover, the placeholder image you had already looked really good.

(The video _was_ pretty cool, though.)


I just added a static image fallback instead of the brown background I had before. Keeps more in line with the intended look.




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