Experimental / Proof-of-concept: Don't load the YouTube player unless the video image is clicked.

js/youtube.js

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+/*
+* youtube
+* https://github.com/savetheinternet/Tinyboard/blob/master/js/youtube.js
+*
+* Don't load the YouTube player unless the video image is clicked.
+* This increases performance issues when many videos are embedded on the same page.
+* Currently only compatiable with YouTube.
+*
+* Proof of concept.
+*
+* Released under the MIT license
+* Copyright (c) 2013 Michael Save <savetheinternet@tinyboard.org>
+*
+* Usage:
+*	$config['embedding'] = array();
+*	$config['embedding'][] = array(
+*		'/^https?:\/\/(\w+\.)?youtube\.com\/watch\?v=([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]{10,11})(&.+)?$/i',
+*		'<div class="video-container" data-video="$2"><a href="$0" target="_blank" class="file"><img style="width:360px;height:270px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/$2/0.jpg"/></a></div>'
+);
+*   $config['additional_javascript'][] = 'js/jquery.min.js';
+*   $config['additional_javascript'][] = 'js/youtube.js';
+*
+*/
+
+
+onready(function(){
+	$('div.video-container a').attr('href', 'javascript:void(0)');
+	$('div.video-container').click(function() {
+		var videoID = $(this).data('video');
+		
+		$(this).html('<iframe style="float:left;margin: 10px 20px" type="text/html" width="360" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/' + videoID + '?autoplay=1" frameborder="0"/>');
+	});
+});
+