Dave, thanks for the link. I've been playing around and am getting goofy results so far, but more than I have been. You are my hero.
On my ipad, In both chrome and safari if I click on your link at the bottom and tell it to default to html5 and then try go to a post with a video it works perfectly audio and video. If I then go to another post with a video (from the 6 year vid to media lounge Emma amped thing) the picture doesn't load but if I click the empty space it will play audio with no video. It feels like the 'default' isn't holding. Makes for a useless default if it only holds once.
I'm going to power the old droid tablet up and see what it does. Where is my power cable for that thing?
Okay, didn't need the power cable. I shut that tablet down at 100% in January and it fired up at 88%. Impressive. I tried three different posts with you tube links and they all worked perfectly. They didn't play in the webpage but successfully launched the YouTube app. I'll uninstall YouTube from my ipad and reinstall it. Not sure that will do much good because I'm current on the updates but it's worth a shot.
Cramer, we have always been on opposite sides of the droid vs apple discussion. I concede this one to you. Droid wins this one.
I'll play with it more tomorrow.