W3C Compliance and YouTube Embedding

A fascinating article indeed --- but seriously, some of us are quite keen to maintain W3C compliance standards in our site coding, then we want to incorporate a nice embedded video from YouTube or Vimeo and everything screws up.

Here is the solution for the YouTube embedding: I will use our holding video as an example.


This is You Tube’s non valid embedding code:-

To make this fully compliant and slightly simplified to boot, we remove the embedding tags and some of the parameter tags then simply ‘install’ the item as if it were a standard flash object (which of course it is)  :-

All you need to do when embedding other videos (from YouTube) is to take note of the video URL i.e.  (http://www.youtube.com/v/pFW2Vkg6OsU&hl=en_GB&fs=1&) above and replace it with the new one shown in the relevant automatically generated YouTube embedding code.


O.W. 19th November 2009