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tylerpearson / lazyYT

A jQuery plugin to lazy load those dang Youtube iframe videos.
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What's the benefit of this over using the controls=2 parameter? #15

Closed jordn closed 9 years ago

jordn commented 9 years ago

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#controls

controls=2 – Player controls display in the player. For IFrame embeds, the controls
             display and the Flash player loads after the user initiates the video playback.
Daugilas commented 9 years ago

@jordn it loads 10x times faster when using lazyYT plugin.

lazyYT grid: http://works.daugilas.com/lazyYT/demo/grid.html controls=2 grid: http://works.daugilas.com/lazyYT/demo/grid_controls2.html

In addition videos looks better with lazyYT.