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No embed tag for now

Now that we have started to put a few more videos up at You Tube we have also embedded some of them directly into our pages. I took the embed code sample provided by You Tube and pasted it into the page.
<object width=”480″ height=”295″>
<param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/wmkkVhBxLsc&hl=en&fs=1″></param>
<param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param>
<param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param>
<embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/wmkkVhBxLsc&hl=en&fs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”480″ [...]

noscript work-around

OK, so the <script> tag can go in the <head> section of a web page, but the <noscript>tag can not. Go figure!
The problem came up when someone tried to display a jQuery image rotator to cycle through some images. To make sure it degraded nicely when javascript was turned off we chose to just display [...]

View Source - the necessary evil?

First off, Happy Thanksgiving.
My primary project that is going on right now is migrating the 51K or so pages on our main web server into our new templates. So my group and I are having to go through each directory and first decide if the content there is relevant. We have no real clean up [...]

Time to try the cloud

Ok, a series of events have prompted this post about trying the whole cloud computing craze. A tweet, a blog, and a hard drive failure. The tweet (from Mark Greenfield) asked “As I move more and more of my business to the cloud, should I be thinking netbook rather than fully loaded laptop?” He was [...]

Multiple audio tracks in Windows Movie Maker workaround

I’m trying to put together a proof-of-concept for work to do a virtual tour while trying to do it for as little money as possible, and avoiding the “you get what you pay for.” Here at work we have a Flip Ultra that we got from Amazon for around $125. I have been messing around [...]