Simon Willison’s Weblog

29th September 2022

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TIL HTML video that loads when the user clicks play — Today I figured out how to use the `<video>` tag to show a static thumbnail that gets replaced by the loaded video only when the user clicks play.

Posted 29th September 2022 at 7:52 pm

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