Comments on: YouTube in An Alternate Universe of Niceness

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Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:24:15 +0000

[...] of my changes (which were all text). Here’s the actual page. I followed @cogdog’s post for guidance in uploading the actual [...]

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:48:09 +0000

Thanks Stephen, I ought to have checked that. There appears to be something in the way the video is loaded that checks it agains the source url- I was able to replace that chunk with the videos actual embed code. Now you get the full nice sneeze effect.

PS- There is nice, that was nice of you to tell me. Nice.

By: Stephen Downes

Stephen Downes — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:31:17 +0000

Sometimes there’s no reward for being nice. The version you created displays the ‘An Error Occurred’ whenever I try to view the video, while the exact same video on YouTube plays just fine – obviously it’s detecting the framing and disabling playback.