Better Explaining The Reason For Video Facades

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In my last article I showed a semi-simple way of creating “video facades”, a way to better “embed” third party videos — in this case those from YouTube — in a page.

Almost moments after posting it I got a few “friends in the biz” private messaging me asking why adding code like this is advantageous. I looked back and it’s like “Wow, I explained the how, but kind of skipped the why!”