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Check your YouTube embedded video code
It looks like around the 11th August 2016 Google finally removed support for the depreciated
I had a call from a client today letting me know his visitors are seeing a black box where the embedded YouTube video should be playing.
They were using IE11 so at first I thought it might be an Internet Explorer issue. Testing in the latest Firefox the video played fine, but Chrome was also found to be broken.
After investigating it looks like Google have finally pulled the plug on the <object> tag. Using their recommended
YouTube: embedding video
Deprecation Notice
YouTube <object> embeds were deprecated on January 27, 2015. Please migrate your applications to use <iframe> embeds, which can intelligently use whichever embedded player– HTML (<video>) or Flash (<object>) – the client supports.
Along with some websites (mine!) having issues, looking around I can see lots of forums that allow videos to be embedded have been caught out by this.
So time to move to
Check your YouTube embedded video code
It looks like around the 11th August 2016 Google finally removed support for the depreciated
<object> tag.I had a call from a client today letting me know his visitors are seeing a black box where the embedded YouTube video should be playing.
They were using IE11 so at first I thought it might be an Internet Explorer issue. Testing in the latest Firefox the video played fine, but Chrome was also found to be broken.
After investigating it looks like Google have finally pulled the plug on the <object> tag. Using their recommended
<iframe> code works fine in all browsers - making use of HTML5 rather than FLASH when possible, depending on the device/browser.YouTube: embedding video
Deprecation Notice
YouTube <object> embeds were deprecated on January 27, 2015. Please migrate your applications to use <iframe> embeds, which can intelligently use whichever embedded player– HTML (<video>) or Flash (<object>) – the client supports.
Along with some websites (mine!) having issues, looking around I can see lots of forums that allow videos to be embedded have been caught out by this.
So time to move to
<iframe>![s]Hmmm...[/s]
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*Heads up*
Check your YouTube embedded video code
It looks like around the 11th August 2016 Google finally removed support for the depreciated
I had a call from a client today letting me know his visitors are seeing a black box where the embedded YouTube video should be playing.
They were using IE11 so at first I thought it might be an Internet Explorer issue. Testing in the latest Firefox the video played fine, but Chrome was also found to be broken.
After investigating it looks like Google have finally pulled the plug on the <object> tag. Using their recommended
YouTube: embedding video
Deprecation Notice
YouTube <object> embeds were deprecated on January 27, 2015. Please migrate your applications to use <iframe> embeds, which can intelligently use whichever embedded player– HTML (<video>) or Flash (<object>) – the client supports.
Along with some websites (mine!) having issues, looking around I can see lots of forums that allow videos to be embedded have been caught out by this.
So time to move to
Check your YouTube embedded video code
It looks like around the 11th August 2016 Google finally removed support for the depreciated
<object> tag.I had a call from a client today letting me know his visitors are seeing a black box where the embedded YouTube video should be playing.
They were using IE11 so at first I thought it might be an Internet Explorer issue. Testing in the latest Firefox the video played fine, but Chrome was also found to be broken.
After investigating it looks like Google have finally pulled the plug on the <object> tag. Using their recommended
<iframe> code works fine in all browsers - making use of HTML5 rather than FLASH when possible, depending on the device/browser.YouTube: embedding video
Deprecation Notice
YouTube <object> embeds were deprecated on January 27, 2015. Please migrate your applications to use <iframe> embeds, which can intelligently use whichever embedded player– HTML (<video>) or Flash (<object>) – the client supports.
Along with some websites (mine!) having issues, looking around I can see lots of forums that allow videos to be embedded have been caught out by this.
So time to move to
<iframe>![s]Hmmm...[/s]