Native Embeds

Two weeks ago Embedly announced it was acquired by Medium. In that post we promised to continue to improve the product. This is the first feature that we are adding as progress towards that goal.

Native embeds are for sites like Instagram, Facebook and Reddit that use…


Building Animated Covers for Video with Sprites

Last week we introduced animations for mobile covers based on jpeg sprites. This is a technical workaround for browser limitations, specifically iOS disabling video autoplay on mobile web. While GIFs work for animations, they are large and can…