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Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 01:39pm
by Uraniun235
Broomstick wrote:
Is it too fucking difficult to warn people your link goes to a video? With a craptacular load and ad bullshit in front of it? We warn people about PDF's and the like, why not videos and ads? Not everyone is running a brand new machine that handles that stuff well.
Question for discussion: should people include warnings when posting links to sites with flash content and streaming videos?
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 01:46pm
by General Zod
For fuck's sake, yes. Video links aren't always going to be obvious just from the URL, and if I'm at work or on a mobile device I don't want to waste bandwidth clicking on a link that doesn't include a warning if it's a video.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 02:26pm
by Coyote
Probably a good idea. We still have people on coal-fired computers.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 02:52pm
by Edi
Coyote wrote:Probably a good idea. We still have people on coal-fired computers.
Doesn't need to be coal-fired. I have a decent computer at work, but since I'm running twenty different applications and systems on it, many of them serious memory hogs, I don't need the additional irritation. I've always liked links better, since then I can decide whether or not I want to take a look. With embedded, there is no choice. Embedded is fine in AMP, not so much in generic subforums.
And like PDF links, video links should come with a warning.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 07:13pm
by Broomstick
So... basically anything other than plain text or link to text should have a tag? Like...
http://www.HereIsAFakeLinkForExample.com [vid]
or
Don't click on this it's not a real link [PDF]
Hadn't thought of the consequences on a mobile device (don't own one!) but yeah, bandwidth issues there, too.
I sure would appreciate that. Sometimes I'm willing to wait out a download, other times I'm not. Would be nice to know what I'm getting into BEFORE I click, especially if it wouldn't be obvious from the url.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 07:17pm
by Stark
We're already supposed to use meaningful, dressed links. It really isn't much to expect people to type 'video' instead of 'link'.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 07:29pm
by Broomstick
Would that be like this, then?
link to text
link to video
link to YouTube
link to PDF
(And no, none of those is a real link, they're just examples I made up)
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 07:34pm
by Stark
Yeah. I mean, if someone is going to just drop 'link' down with a url behind it (as is often the case) they can say 'link to video' or just 'video' instead. It's not a big deal, but it makes the odds of auto-playing stupid anime music videos at work much lower.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-10 07:36pm
by General Zod
I don't think the specifics matter much as long as it's clearly designated as being something that can hog bandwidth. 99% of the time URLs are pretty self explanatory and don't need it, but when they're not I think a quick mention of videos or whatever should be there somewhere.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-11 03:12am
by Uraniun235
Stark wrote:We're already supposed to use meaningful, dressed links.
Really? Because I remember Darth Wong
specifically stating that thanks to the board upgrade auto-shortening really long URLs, we were no longer required to dress links.
That said a brief "(links to video)" is pretty easy to include.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-11 09:04am
by Lord Revan
while my PC isn't really an old one (well it's 4 or so years old but still), a simple warning for vids could be nice and I'm sure there's people with worse setups then mine.
Re: Hyperlinks to videos
Posted: 2009-06-11 04:04pm
by RedImperator
Uraniun235 wrote:Stark wrote:We're already supposed to use meaningful, dressed links.
Really? Because I remember Darth Wong
specifically stating that thanks to the board upgrade auto-shortening really long URLs, we were no longer required to dress links.
That said a brief "(links to video)" is pretty easy to include.
If I had my way, dressing links would still be required because long strings of random characters look like shit.