Cutting the Ads Out, Locking the Video, and Lyrics That Follow the Song Without Scrolling
This is part two. In the first post I turned 19 free English board books into a tab in my daughter’s media player. The tab worked. Then I used it with her for one evening and found three things that bothered me. The Need: Three Small Annoyances Every video started with a roughly 10-second channel intro and ended with a promo card for other videos. In a song tab, that is a jolt every time. My wife and I had agreed she shouldn’t watch video yet, but the tab played video by default. The lyrics and translation were below the picture. To read them I had to scroll. And my daughter doesn’t like it when “her” picture shrinks or disappears off the top of her phone. None of these is a big problem. All three would have stopped us using the tab. ...