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Created: Feb 11, 2008
Updated: Nov 25, 2009
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Topic: HTML Editing of Profile
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I'm not the real tech guy, but here it goes. As you can see, WE supports embedding videos from YouTube, Google Video and CurrentTV. Were you trying to embed videos from unsupported sources? Do you have the URL of the video? What code were you using and how did the rendered HTML got mangled? (do you have a screenshot?)
The HTML mode is pretty generic, you can write any code in it, but not every code is allowed to run. I think one of the 'security' reasons has to do with what's called cross-site scripting.
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On my profile, I also put in some "disallowed" HTML. It would be nice (if I didn't just miss it) that if any HTML changes are disallowed, notice is given to the user about it.
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Yes, an error message with explanations on why seems appropriate. Let me send this over to the tech team.
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The first technical problem I had was with editing my profile in HTML mode. I had a couple of rounds of email with the support staff and no resolution.
When I would edit the HTML in my about section, for example, adding target attributes (target='_blank') so my videos would open in a new window, the rendered HTML got mangled (all screwed up).
So one guy at support did some arm waving about certain html not being allowed for security reasons, even though what I was trying to do was not a security threat.
It seemed a bad design to give one access to a mode of operation and then make the user guess what was and what wasn't allowed. The last thing support told me was that they would look to see if there was a 'rule book' and get back to me. I'm still waiting.
;-))