On: JavaScript web apps considered valuable

[donatj]

Actually, the <video> tag is the only important part, the rest is just noise.

[garethadams → donatj]

I can see where that comes from, the functionality of Youtube is nothing without its videos.

But on the other hand, Youtube wouldn't have as many videos – specifically the content creators wouldn't have as much of an incentive to upload them – without the social features being there.