Gary Pendergast » youtube http://pento.net I'm on the Internet Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:04:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Embed YouTube videos with XHTML 1.0 Strict code http://pento.net/2009/04/14/embed-youtube-videos-with-xhtml-10-strict-code/ http://pento.net/2009/04/14/embed-youtube-videos-with-xhtml-10-strict-code/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:10:23 +0000 Gary Pendergast http://pento.net/?p=203 Being a bit of a web geek, I like to keep my sites running in Strict mode for whatever HTML/XHTML version I happen to be working in. So, I was saddened to discover that the Embed code that YouTube gives doesn’t pass XHTML 1.0 Strict, due to their use of the now deprecated embed tag. Happily, there’s a way to fix this. As a bonus, the code required is much nicer than the code YouTube gives you:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:480px; height:385px;" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/p1QMoQ3jbjc">
    <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/p1QMoQ3jbjc" />
</object>

You just need to replace the two URLs with the one for your video, and set the appropriate width/height. YouTube’s defaults are 320×265, 425×344, 480×385 and 640×505.

There you have it! It’s a simple as that. And to prove it works, here’s the same code from above:

]]> http://pento.net/2009/04/14/embed-youtube-videos-with-xhtml-10-strict-code/feed/ 5