Posts from Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

Here’s some fun.  (For a sufficiently nerdy definition of “fun”.)

1. Launch Safari 4 or Chrome 4.

2. Drag Videotate to the bookmarks bar.

3. Go opt into the YouTube HTML5 beta.

4. Find your favorite YouTube video.  Or maybe your least favorite.  Here’s one of my favorites: Walk Don’t Run.  Here’s another that’s not necessarily a favorite, but it seems like a fairly appropriate choice.

   Note: not all videos are available via HTML5, even when you’re opted in.  If you get a Flash video, the bookmarklet won’t work.

5. Once the video has started playing, activate the “Videotate” bookmarklet.

6. Enjoy.

Thanks to Simon WIllison for tweeting the JS I modified, and Jeremy Keith for helping me realize it would be easy to do during the HTML5 portion of A Day Apart.

• Turning Web Video On Its Head was published on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010.
• It was assigned to the Browsers, DOM, Humor, and JavaScript categories.
• There have been fifteen replies.