Mobile users are unable to see YouTube videos
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Topic: Mobile users are unable to see YouTube videos
Posted By: iSec
Subject: Mobile users are unable to see YouTube videos
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 2:24pm
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Users are unable to watch YouTube videos embedded into posts on the forum. This seems to be happening after the v10.11 update. It happens to be affecting WWF on the WebWiz Guide site as well. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 3:28pm
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Seems to be working fine:- If you are not seeing a YouTube video in this post it could be an issue with your browser. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: Paul_T
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 4:00pm
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I can't see them either on this forum or my forum I'm currently on an iPhone 4s ------------- http://www.wongaforum.com" rel="nofollow - Wongaforum.com |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 4:14pm
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The iPhone does not support Flash and so would not be able to display YouiTube embedded content with uses Flash. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 20 April 2012 at 4:29pm
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Bruce, YouTube videos can still be seen on iPhone through Safari. YouTube or Apple have full support for this on iphone, im assuming through HTML5 or some other way. We didn't experience this issue prior to the upgrade, and I can get you screen shots right from iPhone for both versions of the forum, 10.3 and 10.11. [Edit]: here are the screenshots: Version 10.3 (no issues viewing YouTube posts on iPhone through Safari)  Version 10.11 (Problem viewing YouTube videos embedded into forum posts)  ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 April 2012 at 9:38am
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The way YouTube videos are embedded has not changed in 10.11, the only thing that has changed is the URL for the YouTube content from www.youtube.com to www.youtube-nocookie.com if you have the EU Cookie Law Compliance enabled in your forum. The www.youtube-nocookie.com is a new URL from YouTube that does not set cookies so that the embedded YouTube content complies with the EU directive on setting cookies. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 23 April 2012 at 9:37pm
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Bruce, I disabled the EU Cookie Law Compliance on the forum and it works ok now. I guess I don't need this EU Cookie thing on my forum since it's US-based, do I? ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 8:26am
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I beleive they are bringing in simular laws in the US, but you would need to check. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 24 April 2012 at 5:50pm
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Well, thanks for looking into it... at least we know what the issue is at this point, which is not a WWF issue, but is more of a YouTube/Apple issue. Hopefully, YouTube will add HTML5 support to the www.youtube-nocookie.com domain soon. Thanks for all your help. ------------- "When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars" -Charles A. Beard |