Why Brightcove gives me a headache some days
We’ve been using Brightcove a lot more to publish video (1, 2) at the Merc, and there is so much to like about it. But fer cryin’ out loud, can we please do something about these annoying Flash behaviors. Brightcove’s editing control panel is written entirely in Flash, which means a) if you ever hit the browser’s back button while you’re in the middle of doing something, you go back to the previous web site you were on and lose all your work to that point, and b) you can’t cut and paste into or out of Brightcove when you’re adding descriptions or other meta data to videos. These are relatively minor things in the grand scheme of things, but they can add up to be real productivity killers. Argh.
UPDATE: Brightcove’s Bob Mason points out to me that cut-and-paste works fine in Safari and Firefox on the Mac. I was using Camino, where it does not work. So I stand (mostly) corrected. And kudos to Bob, the company’s CTO, for taking the time out of his busy days to trade emails with me about this.
08 Jul 2007 Michael 5 comments