Youtube embeds not working in Explorer

[pwilster]

Hello everyone! This is to ask if anybody has encountered this problem, it seems like a known issue for IE 8 but I can't get an straight solution. My site is in the final stages of development and this issue is causing me a skin rash:

Using Internet Explorer, please let me know if you can see the embedded Youtube movies located at the right side of this page:
http://animaxima.com/portfolio.htm

Does anybody know why youtube embeds don't show in IE 8? any feasible workaround?

Thanks in advance

[MarcosCoon]

Sorry, couldn't see the Youtube movie.

Usually, websites like YouTube give us boilerplate code that you can insert into your documents. YouTube's code goes like this:
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AyPzM5WK8ys" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AyPzM5WK8ys"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350" />
</object>
There are two things to note about this code:
<embed> is not recognized by W3C, so if you want standards-compliant code, you'll have to get rid of it.
The code is exactly the same for all instances, except for the identifier AyPzM5WK8ys which tells us which movie file to retrieve.



Marcos Coon

[pwilster]

thanks Marcos, that's exactly the code I'm using.

There are other sites that display Youtube embeds in IE8 with no problem. I just want to find out what's wrong with mine.

[Video Man]

Don't know the exact cause of the problem but it seems security related. Testing the urls used in the post above and from source code of your site.

http://www.youtube.com/v/AyPzM5WK8ys
and
http://www.youtube.com/v/CKY_FeJ_W4w..._US&fs=1&rel=0

Both work fine when direct downloaded (url directly in address bar) in FF. But for both, IE throws up a security warning. Choose "open" and it still doesn't open right off, but refresh the page and it will then open in IE.
Not sure how to fix that but will watch thread for the answer.
Video Man