YouTube tag

[XeryusTC]

The YouTube tag doesn't work if your URL isn't of a specific format. Even just using https instead of http makes it break, it also doesn't like it if you have parameters in the URL (which I can understand). Could you fix it so it at least accepts https Owen? Pretty please, with a cherry on top

[orudge]

Not with any great ease, unfortunately - specifically, not without breaking all existing [youtube] tags. I could change it so that you just had to enter [youtube]youtube_id[/youtube], but as I say, that would break all existing references. I'd have to run a search and replace on every post in the forum DB to fix that, which I'd probably prefer not to do.

It may be possible to at least make it accept the 's' in 'https', but I'd have to do some experimenting with that.

[XeryusTC]

Well, my main 'problem' is that it doesn't accept the s in https, so if you could fix that it would be very nice. That it doesn't accept parameters isn't that bad IMO, just a minor inconvenience.

[Pyoro]

Shouldn't be too difficult; something like this maybe?
[youtube]{IDENTIFIER2}://www.youtube.com/watch?v={IDENTIFIER1}[/youtube]

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="{IDENTIFIER2}://www.youtube.com/v/{IDENTIFIER1}&rel=en& ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="{IDENTIFIER2}://www.youtube.com/v/{IDENTIFIER1}&rel=en& ... 2=0xd4d4d4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

[ChillCore]

I was just about to report this ...
May as well give this thread a little bump instead of making a new topic.

[orudge]

HTTPS:



Gopher:



The youtube tag now always links to http://, but accepts anything://www.youtube.com/. I could make it link to https, but for the moment I'll stick to http.

[jonty-comp]

That's certainly an improvement, but could you make it protocol-relative? I've got SSL Enforcer turned on and Google Chrome blocks the youtube embeds as they come from an external non-secure domain. As per http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/ you can replace the "http://" or "https://" with just "//" and any browser that supports RFC standards (read: anything from the last 15 years except IE6, and I bet youtube embeds don't work in that anyway) will request the embed using the same protocol that the page was loaded as. It's rather clever.

[orudge]

Ah yes, I forgot about //. Well, I've done that now.

The Google ads will still give you a warning though I'm afraid (if you're not using evil ad-blocking software) as, in their infinite wisdom, Google still haven't provided a secure version of their adverts yet.

[jonty-comp]

Perfect. Pity about Google's JavaScript, but presumably as more sites go SSL-enabled they'll sort it out at their end.

[ChillCore]

Thank you.

[kamnet]

Can this also be modified to support YouTube's newer http://youtu.be/ shortcut links?

[orudge]

Unfortunately not, not with any great ease at least. I'm not sure if they would even work in an embed tag.