Thu Oct 12 00:02:38 EDT 2006
Embeding YouTube videos and staying XHTML 1.0 Compliant
I just noticed that all of these embedded videos I've been putting on my page
has made me no longer XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. I do my best to keep
with the standards so a quick Google came up with this solution. I can't take any credit for this at all.
But I'm still going to post it here on my own page in the event that the
original page would go down for some reason.
Basically, all you do is use the following instead of the supplied code from YouTube:
Then just replace the
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Basically, all you do is use the following instead of the supplied code from YouTube:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px;"
data="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U"><param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7_6B6vwE83U" /></object>
Then just replace the
data= parameter and the value= parameter with the URL to
the video. This method also seemed to work with the one embedded thing I have
in from break.com.
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