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The youtube tag is funky in chat

(22:15:09) rpgdemon: Woah.
(22:15:12) rpgdemon: The youtube tag is funky.
(22:15:15) rpgdemon: It keeps reloading the video.
(22:15:17) Kyanbu_The_Legen: yeah
(22:15:22) rpgdemon: Maybe we should tell Synk.
(22:15:33) rpgdemon: That it reloads the video every new post.
(22:15:34) Kyanbu_The_Legen: everytime someone posts it does that.

The youtube tag is funky in chat.

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Oh, plus if you click the video, your focus gets stuck there, and you can't type unless you switch tabs or something to get the focus elsewhere.

I feel this is still a step above just having a link, but *shrug*.

OK

I went back to the other implementation I had put in there -- using the tag creates a clickable link that opens a resizable window to play the video.

Basically, AJAXChat more or less re-draws everything in the chat display when a new message is added, so I guess YouTube treats that like a page refresh and re-starts the video(s).

Screw that -- how is that any different than opening a new tab/window from a regular link? Went with an easier solution that seems to stop the chat window from "refreshing" and reloading videos (and gifs, as well, if you hadn't noticed that sometimes) [each new message essentially updated the document object, which is similar to hitting "reload" in your browser for elements in that object].

Also the chat source hasn't been updated in at least a year, so maybe there are better alternatives out there***. I can explore this some time when I can play around on the vBulletin addon forum more.

*** holy fuck, they are all so shitty and overblown. We don't need a Java applet, an IRC frontend, or Flash-based chat with built in games and bullshit. Maybe we'll just stick with what we have!