new expirimental youtube embeding code...

I haven't changed the standard youtube embed BBcodes yet, but want to test out this new code for a bit first. Works the same as the old, just put the video id between tags like this:
The idea here is to not load the video objects unless they are clicked on, while still showing a preview and title for what the video is. This should speed up things on video heavy pages. This was one of the recent improvement ideas. (and I got jelous of boing boing's new snowy video links, I can probably get our own snow like effect and play icon overlayed on the preview image, but this is enough for now.) and it didn't take stringing crap out over multiple external js files, css sheets, etc.
Here's two examples:
Try posting some more in this thread and lets see if it breaks at all.
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[test_yt]M0B62FeCLgU[/test_yt]
The idea here is to not load the video objects unless they are clicked on, while still showing a preview and title for what the video is. This should speed up things on video heavy pages. This was one of the recent improvement ideas. (and I got jelous of boing boing's new snowy video links, I can probably get our own snow like effect and play icon overlayed on the preview image, but this is enough for now.) and it didn't take stringing crap out over multiple external js files, css sheets, etc.

Here's two examples:


Try posting some more in this thread and lets see if it breaks at all.