I spent some time today on Nacion.com, the website for the biggest local newspaper, and found out none of the videos they have can actually be played. If you go to the site the videos are at the bottom, and when I open them I get this message in the flash player window where the video is supposed to play:

Player can not detect browser cookies. Please, enable them and reload the page in order to show the content.

Using Safari 3, with cookies obviously enabled. But the truth is they should have tested their video solution on all platforms and browsers, putting the functionality on the site only to have it fail on users simply pisses them off, like it did to me.

It blows my mind that the guys running this site couldn’t get video right. I mean, video online in 2008 is not a difficult thing to do. Not at all. By any means. We’ll see if they get it right.