I am using Safari 10 on macOS Sierra, with Adblock disabled on this domain, and no other filters running here, and embedded YouTube videos are not rendering. I only see a big empty space where a video should appear. This happens for any post linking to YouTube videos.

I am using Safari 10 on macOS Sierra, with Adblock disabled on this domain, and no other filters running here, and embedded YouTube videos are not rendering. I only see a big empty space where a video should appear. This happens for any post linking to YouTube videos.

try using http instead of https to access the forum.

Right, I see the problem. http links, and they're Flash embeds. I guess I'll browse those topics with Chrome.

Bumping to note that I've observed YouTube embeds now use iframe tags, and manage to use the HTML5 player, so I don't need to install the Flash plug-in.

 

Now I'd like to request that the embed code that produces the iframe tags be changed to remove the "http:" from the embed link, so the embeds will automatically promote to HTTPS when browsing the forum using HTTPS links, which appears to be the default.

This is an issue that's still around. Here's my post with the issue:

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=48370.0

 

@jonathanm

Browsing http is not a viable method while logged into the forum. That opens to having my session jacked by a mitm attack. In order to view the youtube video I'd have to log out of my account, switch to http, and then browse to the post with the video.

This is an issue that's still around. Here's my post with the issue:

https://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=48370.0

 

@jonathanm

Browsing http is not a viable method while logged into the forum. That opens to having my session jacked by a mitm attack. In order to view the youtube video I'd have to log out of my account, switch to http, and then browse to the post with the video.

If you click the quote button on the post with the video you wish to view while browsing the forum securely, you can copy the youtube link and paste it into a new tab.

A related tip (related but perhaps the opposite of the request above):

 

When I was building the Guides and Videos index post, I did not want anything embedded, because pages with a number of embedded videos are very slow to load, and jump around quite a bit before finally settling down.  But I had a lot of trouble finding a way to NOT display the videos as embedded, because the URL tag with youtube.com or youtu.be is treated as a VIDEO tag instead, embedding the video in the post.  Finally by accident, I discovered that if I used the path youtube.com/embed/VIDEO*ID, then the URL tag was left as a URL, and visible only as a link, like any other URL (e.g. Introducing unRAID OS 6).

 

Just an idea, but I think it would be nice to add this embed link to any posts with embedded videos, above or below it, so the user that can't see the embedded video can still click the link and view the video.

 

It's a little bazaar syntax, using the word 'embed' to ensure the video is NOT embedded!  Plus, it's not written up anywhere, so is completely unofficial (as far as I know), and could change/break any day.