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YouTube With XHTML 1.0 Strict Valid!!
Posted on November 2006 at about 2:14 PM by hwa
For those who broadcast YouTube in their blog before, you should know that the YouTube embed tag is actually not XHTML valid, it’s because the <embed> had been deprecated from XHTML 1.0.
By default the YouTube embed tag should looks something like this:
- <object width="425" height="350">
- <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_Dxp5HQNIA"></param>
- <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
- <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_Dxp5HQNIA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">
- </embed>
- </object>
But it contain the <embed> HTML tag which is not allow in XHTML 1.0 Strict, so in order to make it pass the validation, i change the above code to something like this:
- <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_Dxp5HQNIA"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m_Dxp5HQNIA" /></object>
YouTube plays well with the new tag, and it doesn’t have the <embed> tag, which is XHTML 1.0 Strict valid!