Consider using the new YouTube embeds?

YouTube now has new IFRAME embeds:

Code:

<iframe type="text/html"
           width="640" height="385"
           src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/VIDEO_ID"
           frameborder="0">
</iframe>

I'm not sure what disadvantages they might have, but the main advantage is that some videos are viewable without Flash. It would please Flash haters like me, and probably some Apple/iPad lovers too. It also runs smoother without Flash, and Chrome/Firefox 4 users can take advantage of it.

P.S. What happened with the https server?

but what about IE 6 users?

I have a script that gets their credit card info and sends it to me while making their PC to erect a tentacle and insert it into their asshole. It would be a great addition to the forum too.

Did the new software fixed this?

Possibly, actually.

In this post the code is as follows:

Code:

<object width="500" height="300" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqtr_RvR3sY&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqtr_RvR3sY&amp;fs=1" />
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
    <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
    <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rqtr_RvR3sY&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="opaque" width="500" height="300" />
</object>

So it still uses Flash (and it includes the use of an obsolete <embed> tag when you can embed Flash without those!)

I have personally embedded Flash from YouTube using the following code:

Code:

<object style="width:426px; height:344px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hmwUIgLzVEE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x000000&amp;color2=0x0000000">
       <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hmwUIgLzVEE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x000000&amp;color2=0x000000" />
</object>

I'm not sure if it is the correct way to do it, but it works on every browser I've seen...

Another thing about the embeds on the new forum. I realize this part probably won't change now, but the old forum loaded the page from YouTube to get the title of the video. This was very useful if a video got removed and you could search for it elsewhere by title, or at least get a hint of what the video was about. It also happened to work as a workaround for my feature request - if you didn't have Flash you could simply click the title with the link. It would be neat if the embeds could do this again.

That also meant that you knew which video wasa being quoted which was nice.