nathan hammond

I've spent a couple hours looking at YouTube code and videos and have updated my bookmarklets accordingly. Instead of only offering HD and SD download of MP4s this defaults to download the highest available quality of the specified type: FLV or MP4. They've been tested only on Firefox 3.0.4 on Mac OS X 10.5.5, but I've ...

I've been fiddling around with YouTube's swfArgs['fmt_map'] value to see if I can use it to programmatically identify which formats exist for a given video but I'm running into a wall... I don't have a large enough sample set to confirm my results, and the YouTube HD shift is so recent that there aren't other resources. ...

Update After doing some looking at YouTube's code it turns out that it is possible to determine which formats of a video exist beforehand so I've updated my approach to use this consideration. These now grab the highest quality copy available in the particular format.

UPDATE PART TWO This issue has been distilled much further and appears to be with how Chrome handles triggering of the DOMContentLoaded event on navigation forward and backward when there are inline scripts. I've updated the bug report (Issue 151) with a very simple test case that demonstrates this. Turns out it wasn't related to forms ...

Today was a much different day than those prior. I ended up dong a lot more talking about things than attending presentations. Today started with Brian Dillard's presentation called Making Friends with the Browser which covered the reasons for the need of JavaScript history managers and what the current state of the art is. Being my ...