I was expecting a commentary on whether or not this was more green, so I was a little shocked seeing the spartan page that awaited.<p>I think it LOOKS a lot better. Without the benefit of commentary from the author, I can't say whether that was his intent or not. From the stills, I can say that it takes a little away from the video, in that it isn't clearly framed as the main content on the page, but I'm guessing that motion video would make that problem go away.<p>As a complete aside, I almost love the lack of commentary from the author. I certainly don't recommend it for every post, but it's almost like blog art, in that the resultant conversation is free-form.
white makes the video size quite irregular - and a lot more different from TVs (as far as I know, the background and frames are usually black). That is not an excuse on itself since it's a different media - but making it similar reduces the adoption barrier.<p>And it looks a lot tidier with a cleanly defined black square anyway, imho...
Meta-discussion: I feel like we should avoid single images if we want to avoid becoming yet another news aggregation site.<p>What's next, {"Top N [Nouns] to [Verb]" | N > 1}? :(