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…I didn’t.

Now let’s take some time to ponder on the question at the end of the video.

After being installed for the whopping amount of 42 times (yes, 42) SeekTube gets outdated by YouTube providing the same functionality.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

Here comes a video demoing SeekTube functionality.