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I just added in the ability to render videos in my blog, and in so doing came across a question I hadn't considered before: how do I reserve space for a video that loads after the page does? Also, are videos loaded after page load, or what's the deal there?

Turns out: yes! You can reserve space for a video. In my case…

I'm sure fjall-rs isn't the first tech blog to implement a dynamic reading progress bar, but it's the first the caught my eye. Implementing it was trivially easy, though there are some browser pitfalls to be aware of.

Zola is wonderful. It builds quickly, it's extremely configurable, but it is (by design) not well suited for interactive elements or complex JavaScript. I hadn't thought I wanted that until I saw some on Amos's site. He ended up using iframes to manage that integration, which is a perfectly acceptable solution. But it did make me wonder: can we accomplish the same result without all of that nasty ugly HTML? Can we just write some clean JS and call it a day?

Let's find out…