A Fool's Wisdom » XHTML http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:56:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha YouTube Embed Not In Bed With Web Standards http://foolswisdom.com/youtube-embed-not-in-bed-with-web-standards/ http://foolswisdom.com/youtube-embed-not-in-bed-with-web-standards/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:51:25 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=660 Continue reading →]]> I’ve long known that YouTube embeds aren’t XHMTL because, ironically, embed isn’t valid XHTML. I knew there must be an easy solution, object, but I never made the time to figure it out.

Today I was helping work through some of the WordPress.com support requests, and a customer asked about this very issue.

I’ve never heard described a real problem — that it doesn’t pass W3C Markup Validator I don’t see as a problem in itself. I would love for a real problem to lend weight to the argument of YouTube addressing this, though allowing browsers to run lean, mean, and fast is itself a pretty good reason.

So I did some research. It seems that a solution is both reasonable and well known:

    Specifically about YouTube:

    Is there good reason YouTube hasn’t done this?

    YouTube Help turns up nothing.

    Aidas Bendoraitis asked this question on YouTube API Developer Forum, but his question has gone unanswered.

    I don’t think I have any contacts on Google’s YouTube team, so I will put this out there for now, and wait for an opportunity to pursue this further.

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