Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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Add custom poster frame to youtube video without the API

The trick is adding the iframe in a comment. Javascript reads comment contents and saves iframe definition to a var. When user clicks on the image, javascript overwrites container innerHTML using the iframe defined in the comments.

https://gist.github.com/4438876

This code is also valid in browsers not supporting window.postMessage (API uses postMessage).