As I was playing around with the demo, I noticed that it worked much nicer than any video buffering I’d seen in flash (e.g. youtube). Specifically, if you load a video, and seek around to various points in the stream, flash will lose all buffered data except in a few specific circumstances (specifically, you have buffered a continuous range that includes both the current play position and the requested play position). Firefox with HTML5 video saves all the data it’s downloaded at any point, so you never need to redownload any data, and generally just works.

This is very nice. And if you needed any more encouragement, give up on flash for video, and switch to HTML5.

Please do not use grey text on a white background. Use black. Grey is harder to read, causes more strain on the eyes, and makes me less likely to read what you say. Really. I recently realized that one weblog I used to read a lot I wasn’t liking nearly as much recently, not because the content was worse, but because it was actually more work to read and that made it not worth it.

So don’t do it. Please. Or I’ll just stop reading your stuff (maybe not even consciously).

And yes, I am aware that this blog uses it, by virtue of the default wordpress theme. I only just realized that, and am fixing it now.

Edit: So a wordpress update broke this for a few days. Fixed now.

And a big thank you to roc for writing that patch, and vlad for reviewing it too!