I usually want to see a preview rather than a generic placeholder, personally--almost no videos posted to my f'list have autoplay. :( A placeholder isn't very informative.
This exactly. The Onion is the only site I've seen so far that begins the video immediately on page load. Which means that when I open a friends page that has a video from Youtube or Hulu or Game Trailers or Daily Motion or Comedy Central or Funny or Die or Google Video, it waits patiently until I get down to it and shows me a preview picture. When I load up a page with an Onion video, I immediately hear it hijacking my PC speakers.
Gotcha -- sorry about that. I genuinely didn't realize that Onion embeds weren't caught. Since I have placeholding and the Noscript extension, no video ever makes it through without my explicit permission, so I just assumed it was following the same rules as Youtube embeds.
I find it deliciously ironic that The Onion doesn't follow the rules of polite internet decorum and autoplays regardless of a person's settings. Or maybe it's just aptly appropriate?
I know him, he taught a class he was in. Which isn't to say that you should like him, too. I point it out because I think it's cool to know someone that's in a disliked commercial. I've never been able to say that before.
Mhehe - I knew that it was something autoplaying from my LJ when I heard it start, took me a second to realize that it wasn't contextually appropriate for World of WarCraft.
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Grumble, grumble...
Scroll through the list of friends' posts, some of whom had well behaved vids patiently waiting for me to start them.
I'd be grumpier if I didn't find the vid interesting and funny, although I suspect it will get on my nerves after the third or umpteenth time...
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Grumble, grumble...
Scroll through the list of friends' posts, some of whom had well behaved vids patiently waiting for me to start them.
I'd be grumpier if I didn't find the vid interesting and funny, although I suspect it will get on my nerves after the third or umpteenth time...