BBCode problem

[QFIT]

I have a BBCode for embedding YouTube videos on a site with SSL. IE has a problem with embedding YT videos that requires that you specify &version=3 on an SSL site. So:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="https://www.youtube.com/v/{param}&version=3"></param><embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/{param}&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>

VB's BBCode Manager changes the & to &amp;. So, the BBCode fails.

[kh99]

Are you sure that's why it's not working? I think an & in the html source should look like &amp; . I tried your replacement and it seems to work, but I only have an old version of IE so it could happen in other versions.

[QFIT]

Yes. You must use &version= for the parameter to work. If it says &amp;version=, the parameter will simply be ignored. That's OK if you are not on a site using SSL. But, IE11 will not run a shockwave object from another site from an SSL site unless you specify version 3.

[QFIT]

Partial solution. I changed the ampersand to a ? and it works. But, this solution won't work if more than one parameter must be passed.

[QFIT]

I take it back. ? is not working either. There must be a way to use an ampersand in BBCodes.

[Wayne Luke]

For your own custom BBCode, you should use Youtube's iFrame method so it returns the appropriate code to the appropriate browser.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters#Manual_IFrame_Embeds

[QFIT]

Yep, I just did that and it does work. Fortunately, the defaults are all acceptable. There would still be a problem if I wanted to pass a parameter.