{"id":1035,"date":"2007-08-09T05:34:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T12:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/ec7e58c24440bfd5d6a01b28acae36ca"},"modified":"2007-08-09T05:34:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T12:34:10","slug":"auto-starting-movies-in-news-feeds-is-rude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1035","title":{"rendered":"Auto-starting movies in news feeds is rude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm a big fan of <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/\">MAKE<\/a><\/b> the magazine for builders, inventors and general fiddlers of hardware. But I'm not such a keen fan on their blog feeds. Particularly those that include a movie in their content. <\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the movies in those feeds are set to start automatically on page load, without requiring a click to get them started. Now on an individual page for the item I can understand it, but in a feed it just becomes annoying. <\/p>\n<p>While I'm feed reading I could be reading all sorts of posts and other pages in other tabs or windows, and I could easily be viewing 20 or even 100 feed items in one page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=TEjmVQ\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=TEjmVQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/142349365\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\/\">MAKE<\/a><\/b> the magazine for builders, inventors and general fiddlers of hardware. But I&#8217;m not such a keen fan on their blog feeds. Particularly those that include a movie in their content. <\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the movies in those feeds are set to start automatically on page load, without requiring a click to get them started. Now on an individual page for the item I can understand it, but in a feed it just becomes annoying. <\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m feed reading I could be reading all sorts of posts and other pages in other tabs or windows, and I could easily be viewing 20 or even 100 feed items in one page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=TEjmVQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=TEjmVQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/142349365\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}