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Originally Posted by DNSB
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."
"You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short."
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certain that this discourse has been
absolutely invaluable to enhancing the OP's understanding of the issues at hand.
Hitch