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After being installed for the whopping amount of 42 times (yes, 42) SeekTube gets outdated by YouTube providing the same functionality. You can now postfix a YouTube link with #t=XmYYs (which differs from SeekTube links for an additional “t=”) and get the player start at that precise moment; actually the precision depends on the nearest available key-frame, which the player starts playing from.

As a plus, YouTube also implemented a functionality I was wondering to add to SeekTube: it now automatically detects when someone mentions a specific time and adds a link to that point in the video. If you write 01:18 in a comment, YouTube would enclose it in an anchor tag wth the onclick attribute set to the seekTo function, i.e. <a href=”#” onclick=”seekTo(01*60+18);return false;”>01:18</a>. The detection is performed server-side (although the conversion is completed on the client - is this by or design by accident?); this leaves a little room for (seektube-strikes-back) porting the detection fully on the client side (in a greasemonkey/ubiquity script) and having it available on every page linking or embedding a YouTube video.

Good Bye SeekTube,
So LongShort and Thanks
For All the Few FishLinks