If the user interface ain"t broken, don"t fix it... but fixing, Google did, and recently released a new YouTube player that is breaking some of the "learned" interface. Below you can see an example of a new style YouTube player:
Usually, the red indicated the buffer status. A typical use case is that you hit play, then hit pause, and then let the player finish buffering in one browser window or tab while you continue reading in another window. In other words, you"re waiting for the red line to reach the right end, so that you can then watch the whole video fluently in one go.
Only that with the new YouTube player design, the red line will never reach the right end. Google"s/ YouTube"s not-so-brilliant decision: red now indicates the current pos ...
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 11/14/2007 7:10:42 AM
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