A Fool's Wisdom » YouTube http://foolswisdom.com A fool and his blog are soon parted. Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:39:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Embedding YouTube in WordPress Bug http://foolswisdom.com/embedding-youtube-in-wordpress-2-3-bug/ http://foolswisdom.com/embedding-youtube-in-wordpress-2-3-bug/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:14:16 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=800 Continue reading →]]> Nancy White is the first person to add a specific problems for tomorrow’s WordPress and your Problems. Her problem is:

embedding youtube – I know to turn off WYSIWYG but is there an easier way?

First, you can’t do embeds, JavaScript, etc if you are don’t have unfiltered_html, which only the Admin and Editor roles have.

Nancy, describe it works in “code” mode so she has sufficient permissions. So this is a big clue that the problem is how we integrated TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG or visual editor) into WordPress.

Although, if I had waited until tomorrow I would have gotten additional important details. I was about to confirm there is a bug in the latest release (2.3.3).

And it is fixed in the next major release (WordPress 2.5), further in 2.5 it will remember whether you were last using Visual or HTML editor mode, so even if the bug still existed, which it doesn’t, it would be worked around.

The bug is #5336 TinyMCE Mangles <object> tag’s and DD32 verified that it is fixed:

WordPress 2.4/2.5′s TinyMCE has a built-in flash functionality.

Heres the HTML it generates: (as seen on the published page, i’m pretty sure its identical in the edit window)

<p><object height="110" width="315" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param value="http://www.spiegel.de/media/0,4906,16534,00.swf" name="src" /><embed height="110" width="315" src="http://www.spiegel.de/media/0,4906,16534,00.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></p>

Appears to be fixed.

So Nancy, it sounds like you have the best work around until WordPress 2.5 which will fix the problem.

]]> http://foolswisdom.com/embedding-youtube-in-wordpress-2-3-bug/feed/ 8 2luo.com YouTube Phishing? I Hope Not http://foolswisdom.com/2luocom-youtube-phishing-i-hope-not/ http://foolswisdom.com/2luocom-youtube-phishing-i-hope-not/#comments Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:01:31 +0000 Lloyd http://foolswisdom.com/?p=663 Continue reading →]]> I just noticed that I tried to login with my YouTube account information at www.2luo.com . I hope it isn’t a phishing or other form of malicious site, but to be safe I changed my password there and on sites where I used a related pattern.

Sorting back through my tabs, I discovered how I ended up on 2luo.com . I had done a Google search for “youtube floyd wall remix”

2luo.com in Google Search Results for YouTube

Visiting the result which I have underlined in red, I’m now at a site that looks like YouTube and behaves like YouTube in every way, except the URL isn’t YouTube. I have reason to worry about anything I submit to the site.

I can hope that it is a harmless reverse proxy, but the whois for that site isn’t reassuring:

kdkkdk
lg ggg (lgvcd@hotmail.com)
+1.90383920
Fax: +1.90383900
kdkk
dkdkkkk, DJ 47738
US

For some reason, I don’t think that they are really in the USA.

I checked at PhishTank and this site hasn’t been reported yet.

I don’t really know how to further investigate, so I will take my fresh minted passwords and get back to other things.

How did it come about that I made this mistake?

I was absent minded and admit to relying on Google and Firefox’s anti-phishing protection. YouTube is a Google property, so there is some irony.

How much was human error?

Recently, human error has been reconceptualized as resiliency to emphasize the positive aspects that humans bring to the operation of technical systems (see Hollnagel, Woods and Leveson, 2006)

Within the broad domain of industrial safety, the term resilience has come into use to emphasise that safety must be proactive as well as reactive.

So, I take ownership for the mistake, and for quickly minimizing the damage of the mistake. My error was distraction. Like everyone else, I’m not particularly good at staying vigilant. That is why as well as reasonable personal responsibility and consideration of habits, we need better tools.

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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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