Minimize a video so it's playing in the corner of the browser; notice that the video continues to play seamlessly as you navigate around the site. You can't do that in an MPA right now.
i dont get why they are difficult on mobile? inf scrolling is worse. Especially on android which has a back button everywhere. I think ppl should be more mindful of the megabytes of javascript that people have to download just to see a list of images
You could in theory do that although the experience would be slightly odd. Either open the video in a new page and put in the bottom right, force focus it after the main window been active. Or wrap the entire websites in two iframes, one for main content and one for video player. Main content can change without interfering with the video player.
Not saying you should do either of these, as the UX would be worse, but you could if you really want to :)
I have a redirect set up for shorts to redirect me onto a normal site. As youtube loads the content dynamically, then sets the URL it doesn't work unless I open the short in a new tab or do a f5.
The only distinction that matters is whether it has a client-side router. If it feels like an MPA, and doesn't feel slow, that can be easy to miss. But it’s still a SPA.
This is such an interesting inversion. IIRC, one of the original arguments for SPAs was that they would be so much quicker than MPAs because they don't reload the entire page on every action. Now it seems like we've come full circle and SPAs are considered to be done well when they can achieve the speed and feel of an MPA!
Also maintaining fullscreen play during video changes (playlists) is only possible in SPAs. In an MPA, every page re-render would require user interaction to go back into fullscreen again.
