It's time to rebuild your player with web components

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Argues that replacing monolithic players with web components yields tangible wins: concrete custom elements like hls-video and dash-video tags play HLS and DASH with no glue code, an iframe-backed switcher isolates players, and Media Chrome exposes moveable controls that talk the video API. Paul Irish’s embed called Light YouTube loads 224× faster than the stock iframe, Vimeo has a component, and demos include a working video sound pad plus woofer.media using the vibration API on Android.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:44@brant they're all players Brent
3. 5:13web components
4. 12:58custom video element examples

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