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Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Nice idea. However, for me it's currently too slow to be really usable (sorry!). Just goes to show how amazing Google Instant is, I think.

Update: it works much, much better (faster) now - good job.

Thanks for noticing! I re-wrote the data fetching to happen directly on the client-side without making a trip to my server.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious: how do you get around crossdomain XHR limitations using tags? Thanks!

tags aren't subject to cross-domain restrictions. Think about it - all those website statistics scripts are hosted on external servers, but their Javascript gets executed just fine. By dynamically inserting tags into the page, you can force Javascript from another domain to execute in your domain.

Got it, thanks. I finally got around to learning JSONP.

JQuery's $.ajax API handles it automatically for you too (if you use the 'jsonp' or 'script' dataType options), which is very nice.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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I like the minimal interface. This website is perfect. Your getting something unexpected stumbleupon style, but you are controlling the seed of randomness, making it more interactive and game like. The funnest thing is entering random letters\nonwords. For example "rowlz".

It would be great if there was a stumble button that proceeded to next random video. I always thought there should be a stumble upon for video.

have you seen nowmov.com?
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