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IE7, Drupal 6.4 and Google Video

Posted by nathanmcginty on September 22, 2008 at 11:39pm
Project:Drupal core
Version:6.4
Component:node system
Category:bug report
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (fixed)

Issue Summary

Howdy,

Just upgraded to 6.4. Love it. Right now using LiteJazz (blue) with the Suckerfish menus enabled. I was having the problem with the menus hiding behind embedded videos, but managed to work that out.

Now, here's the problem I'm seeing, though. In IE7.0, whenever I try to embed a Google Video, I get a broken link.

Here's what I'm embedding (the Google generated code):

<embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=885958252420590272&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>

You can see it here (test page):


http://www.add-productions.net/node/707


Works fine in Firefox & Opera. YouTube embedded videos work fine. I'm pretty sure it was okay on IE6.x because I've never seen this before.


I've tried putting a functional youtube embed on the same page and trying to strip out the google code until I can figure out what's going on. But it makes no sense.


Cache cleared, brower restarted, etc....still it's only on IE7.0....


Any suggestions would be appreciated....(other than just switching to youtube - i've been having "issues" with them lately)

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Comments

#1

Posted by nathanmcginty on September 22, 2008 at 11:59pm

Just to follow up - i also created just a plain old HTML page with nothing but the google embed code in it. Same exact thing. YouTube embedded video works fine, Google video - nothing.

I've checked through the Interwebs and haven't seen anything about this anywhere. Which seems strange because this would seem to effect a lot of people.

I'm not super-coder-man, but i've been paying the bills with computerizing for a few years now and this is really making me bang my head against the wall.

Some kind of missing java update....?

Hmm - ok. Checked on a different machine on IE7.0 and it's working fine. So obviously something I'm missing....

#2

Posted by jabapyth on September 23, 2008 at 12:14am

if IE7 works on a different machine, its definitely not a Drupal thing ;). Try updating your flash player (most online video players, including Google Video, use flash)

#3

Posted by nathanmcginty on September 23, 2008 at 12:19am

Apparently something in Vista.

#4

Posted by nathanmcginty on September 23, 2008 at 12:56am

Ok. Got it solved. Definitely IE7/Vista weird combo. Basically IE7 (on some platforms) doesn't like the tag. I used this code and it worked:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8755581808731033658" width="400" height="326" id="VideoPlayback">
<param name="movie" value="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8755581808731033658" />
<param name="allowScriptAcess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="quality" value="best" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
<param name="scale" value="noScale" />
<param name="salign" value="TL" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="playerMode=embedded" />
</object>

From over here:
http://www.html-advisor.com/xhtml/xhtml-compatible-markup-for-embeding-f...

Hope this helps someone.

#5

Posted by nathanmcginty on September 23, 2008 at 12:57am

sorry - that's the

<embed>

tag that it doesn't like

#6

Posted by nathanmcginty on September 23, 2008 at 12:57am
Status:active» closed (fixed)

Fixed. Closed. Posted for others in case they run into this.