It only happens when a youtube video is embedded. I believe it's the youtube launcher (adobe flash). Oddly, some embedded videos don't seem to have this problem. I'm guessing they are being linked to differently.
It only happens when a youtube video is embedded. I believe it's the youtube launcher (adobe flash). Oddly, some embedded videos don't seem to have this problem. I'm guessing they are being linked to differently.
Yeah - it's in that video Beau posted - www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2gGoswbJXo
when Beau embedded his, I'm guessing he used the "youtube" tag. This seems to result in an embedded iframe who's source is youtube. Comparatively, if you just put a youtube URL in the post, then it embeds a linked image that will load the same(?) iframe. This second iframe seems to be fine in Android, while the first one is not.
If this is correct, is it possible to change the behavior of the "youtube" tag to embed the image instead? I realize this will force everyone to do one additional click to view videos, but it should stop this (unwelcome) behavior on Android devices.
"So it's an Android / YouTube / forum thing" ... Nah, just blame it on me, that seems to be popular :-)
All I did was to take the You-Yube contents that comes after the "equal" sign directly from the You-Tube page and placed it in the You-Tube tag provided in this forum.
i.e.
"www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO8bU6KtEk4"
The "ZO8bU6KtEk4" is what I placed in the tag where it asks to "Enter YouTube Video ID:"... and it becomes this ...
I was just explaining the steps involved that produced the phenomenon so that it could be corrected.
To me when I see a message that says "Enter YouTube Video ID:", it tells me that I need to enter the 11 character unique tag that YouTube uses to uniquify each video with. So if there is another way to properly do this then please enlighten all of us.
I was just explaining the steps involved that produced the phenomenon so that it could be corrected.
To me when I see a message that says "Enter YouTube Video ID:", it tells me that I need to enter the 11 character unique tag that YouTube uses to uniquify each video with. So if there is another way to properly do this then please enlighten all of us.
Yes, we know what causes it. I discussed it in an earlier comment. There was no need to actually demonstrate it, as that doesn't accomplish anything except to cause grief for the Android users. There are plenty of other threads that already show the behavior (including the one mentioned in the OP). If you would be so kind as to edit your comment to remove the actual "youtube" tag, that would be appreciated.
This seems as though it should be an easy fix in the forum software ....
Upon a form entry or reply, do a search for the [you-tube] tag and if it doesn't immediately contain "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" then either reject the entry entirely into the forum, or automatically add "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" succeeding the [you-tube] tag and preceding the YouTube Video ID.
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I'm not sure what is causing it.
Bean
Time to investigate
Here it is in a zip file...
First part of it in notepad
Yeah - it's in that video Beau posted - www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2gGoswbJXo
when Beau embedded his, I'm guessing he used the "youtube" tag. This seems to result in an embedded iframe who's source is youtube. Comparatively, if you just put a youtube URL in the post, then it embeds a linked image that will load the same(?) iframe. This second iframe seems to be fine in Android, while the first one is not.
If this is correct, is it possible to change the behavior of the "youtube" tag to embed the image instead? I realize this will force everyone to do one additional click to view videos, but it should stop this (unwelcome) behavior on Android devices.
Thread topic should be changed to reflect that.
All I did was to take the You-Yube contents that comes after the "equal" sign directly from the You-Tube page and placed it in the You-Tube tag provided in this forum.
i.e.
"www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO8bU6KtEk4"
The "ZO8bU6KtEk4" is what I placed in the tag where it asks to "Enter YouTube Video ID:"... and it becomes this ...
>>REMOVED<<
Argh!!! Another thread tainted!
I was just explaining the steps involved that produced the phenomenon so that it could be corrected.
To me when I see a message that says "Enter YouTube Video ID:", it tells me that I need to enter the 11 character unique tag that YouTube uses to uniquify each video with. So if there is another way to properly do this then please enlighten all of us.
Yes, we know what causes it. I discussed it in an earlier comment. There was no need to actually demonstrate it, as that doesn't accomplish anything except to cause grief for the Android users. There are plenty of other threads that already show the behavior (including the one mentioned in the OP). If you would be so kind as to edit your comment to remove the actual "youtube" tag, that would be appreciated.
Upon a form entry or reply, do a search for the [you-tube] tag and if it doesn't immediately contain "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" then either reject the entry entirely into the forum, or automatically add "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=" succeeding the [you-tube] tag and preceding the YouTube Video ID.