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Making Google Video Usable, If You Must

by NHI Webmaster | April 15, 2006 12:27 AM | Permalink

It is a 2 step fix which requires putting the <object> tag before and closing </object> tag after. Note that the closing tag has a slash before the word “object”. If you do not properly close the tag (for instance adding another opening tag (<object>) by copying and pasting without paying attention, you WILL mess up everything else on the page that comes after it in certain browsers(this has proven to be true a number of times already). The closing tag must be done properly.

The second (important) step is copy the reduced width and height into the opening object tag. So more specifically:

<object style=”width:165px; height:134px;”><embed etc. code from Google…> </embed></object>

Here is an example (the bold is the relevant code):

<object style=”width:165px; height:134px;”><embed style=”width:165px; height:134px;” id=”VideoPlayback” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=1817175236265712499&hl=en” flashvars=”“> </embed></object>

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