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Originally Posted by Hitch
Seriously?
The OP is obviously not making that distinction. He is simply talking about embedding the videos IN THE PACKAGE, versus hosted videos "elsewhere." Nobody here--NOBODY--was talking about putting an mp4 file in the actual HTML code. I mean, sure, I can be as pedantic as the next guy, but you're making a distinction about something that couldn't even EXIST, as an MP4 file or other video could NOT be "embedded" in the HTML itself.
Those are "heebie jeebies" about an event that literally could never occur. Have them if you will, but that's like an argument about HOW you'd fall off the edge of the earth if it were flat.
Hitch
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Want to make a small side bet on embedding videos directly in a web page? One application that was used on the corporate side for training allowed embedding a video into the html code. The player was external to the renderer but the video itself was part of the html code. For it's time, it worked well if you liked cartoons and was the first time I'd seen Base85 encoding used outside of Adobe's products.
Yes, I understand that for most people, making a file available locally is referred to as embedding. For me, there is a difference between embedding a video in a package of files and making a video available to a web page as a link to a locally stored file. Perhaps as useful as ordering the tide not to come in given that any Google search will find "embedding videos" used for everything up to and including linking to a video on YouTube and other video sites.
The heebies are more from the misuse of words. Though worrying about the purity of the English language is more than a bit silly given the history of the English language. As James D. Nicoll phrased it: "
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short."