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[Veteran]

I've installed ios6 (probably a silly move) on my iPad 2 and now embedded youtube videos won't play in Safari. They just tell me to download flash or quicktime! Ha!

I was wondering if anyone else was having this bother?

Cleared the cache and cookies to no avail.

EDIT: might just be our media tags, but still worth checking if it's everyone's problem.

[Kisseena]

Get Chrome.

Actually, I dunno. Lemme check for mahself on my phone, and then I'll update my iPad and check there.

I'm gonna put a video here to see if it works.



This is what it says on my phone:

Edited by Kisseena, 20 September 2012 - 01:29 PM.

[Veteran]

Just tested in Chrome and no joy.

"Your browser does not currently support any of the video formats available."

[JRPomazon]

Another bug in the programing I'd imagine. I'm sure they'll post an update to fix the bugs.

[J-Roc]

Maybe you should get Firefox.

[Nevermind]

Here let me check on my android phone.

Oh wait I‘m on my android phone right now. Yeah no it‘s all good. Looks fine.

What was the problem again?

[Kisseena]

Firefox doesn't have a browser app for them.
At least I don't think they do.

[Veteran]

Maybe you should get Firefox.

What's that? Oh you mean Netscape Navigator? Nah, it's not 1994.

[Toan]

Vet's right about it being our media tags. The fault's kinda mine on this one. Since I was using an admittedly older version of YouTube embedding (so we could still have our fun autoplay and "start the video from x seconds in" features), it was making a Flash call, which in the past opened the built-in YouTube app functionality on Apple devices. Since that app was deprecated and removed, and I was using old code, browsers were being told to look for Flash...

...And since Flash doesn't exist on mobile devices (Adobe recently killed it for Android, too), I broke the forums.

And then while trying to fix it right now, I really broke things. But I learned from my mistakes, and thanks to the more modern HTML5 iframe YouTube embed code, everything should work again. Oh, and we get to keep our fun features I mentioned above, too!

Try viewing this video on your iPhones and iPads - it should work. (Videos posted before now won't be fixed, though. :/ Sorry about that.)




PS: You may still see that embedded YouTube error on other websites while browsing with Apple devices, until those sites update their code like I did for us, just an fyi.

[Veteran]

Awesome stuff, thanks Toan.

[J-Roc]

Thanks for all the work put in Toan the forums are shinier then ever.

[Veteran]

Anyone with an iPad try downloading Jasmine to watch Youtube while we wait for an official one.

[Toan]

Why did nobody tell me they were having trouble with carriage returns and line breaks on their iPads and iPhones? I just had to find this out for myself.

To remedy this situation until IPB gives us iOS users a rich text editor in version 3.4, I made a new tag for line breaks:

[br]

Just use it where you would want to press enter and have a new paragraph start. I hope this tides us over until IPB fixes this egregious oversight.

Edit: Huh. It appears this problem only happens in PMs? I have no problem mashing Enter here and getting extra lines, but in PM it's a different story. Bizarre.

Well, enjoy the new tag in PMs, in case it's needed.

[J-Roc]

I'm tagging the shit out of this bitch, yo.