Videoblogging for Dummies

When I had the book about 2/3 of the way done, Microsoft Internet Explorer changed abruptly, almost overnight, so that embedded objects, like videos, now prompted the user with an annoying pop-up. I had to rewrite my elegant embed tags to use a javascript to get around the IE problem. Since then, blog platforms have adopted a number of ways to embed videos, so you will probably never need my little JavaScript.

However, if you have old videos on your blog, or you just find yourself needing something you can copy-paste for a quick-and-dirty vlog, here it is:

// create a function to write the object and embed tags:
function embed_vlog(vlog_url,vlog_width,vlog_height) {

// writes the object tag.
document.write('<object src="' + vlog_url + '" width="' + vlog_width + '" height="' + vlog_height + '" autostart="false">'

// and the embed tag, for older browsers.
+ '<embed src="' + vlog_url + '" width="' + vlog_width + '" height="' + vlog_height + '" autostart="false"></embed>'

// and the noembed tag, for really non-compliant browsers.
+ '<noembed><a href="' + vlog_url + '">Click to play the video!</a></noembed>');

// closes the object tag.
+ '</object>');

//ends the function
}

A video from some French vloggers, hoping to get Videoblogging for Dummies translated into French.