Sometimes you can’t think of anything to say, but you can think of a video on YouTube that will make your point perfectly. That’s when you might want to bust out a new feature we added to the comments. Just drop a link to a youtube video and then our computer gnomes will go make that video magically appear in the comments in a thumbnail size. When you see one of these, click “watch video” to watch it. Click “stop video” to make it go back to thumbnail. Nifty.
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Man, you guys are bitter. I think you need to learn a valuable lesson…
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@synergy: Firefox runs on almost every platform. If you run safari on your mac, it looks like greasemonkey will still work. Look at [www.simplehelp.net]
I don’t have safari (wont run on ubuntu) so I can’t test it, but might be worth a shot. The greasemonkey script works much better!
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Just testing this feature. The above? A Fair(y) Use Tale (Clips of Disney movies put together to make the characters talk about copyright law).
The videos seem to act like blockquotes: If you don’t have an empty line between the url and the text following it, the text won’t wrap.
And to see if multiple vids are possible:
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Pinball Song Remix: 1 2 3 4 5, 6 7 8 9 10, 11 12!
@unleashed: That video is McInsaneâ„¢ I can’t believe I watched all five minutes of it.
Hey, Gawker Gods: rather than implement embedded videos, wouldn’t it be better to have comments we could go back and edit?
Unless they’re cute kittens frolicking videos.
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Oh, and you know that page that appears when we click our own (and others’ name)? How about placing somewhere in there all the formatting commands (italic, bold, blockquote…) as a reference/resource for the newbies?
I’m rather stunned that I’m the first to post a kitten video.
This either makes me a brave trail-blazer, or someone harboring an inner child who is a nine-year-old girl.
I hope this youtube embed doenst turn into a malicious exploit script kiddie trick
Or, better yet, just put some fricking formatting buttons on like good forums have…no special web page or explanations needed.
ok lets try out the italics and teh bold thing
ok something got messes there italics and bold
oh i get it i forgot the stupid slash! see i got it now
and for a stupid video of my own!!
mayby…
oh maybe now…
cool, thanks Ben for letting me try stuff on this dead thread