I have just discoverd Pligg, having been a videosift user for a while and wanting to look into the tech used.
The video side of things is what I am interested in, and there seems to be quite a bit of discussion about using embed tags, and filtering out the stuff that isn't youtube/google or whatever.
As a webdesigner, I have moved away from using embed and object tags for putting flash content onto a page, instead I use javascript like
swfobject, which is generally thought of as a better way of doing it.
Just wondering if anyone has thought of going down that route for embedding video? It does nice things like allow for non-flash content that search engines see - for example, tags, description, content summary, closed captions etc.
From my experiments, the only part of the youtube and google video embed tags that is required is the path to the movie file. Having a new field in the submission form for this information - or the entire pre-generated embed tag that is then stripped of all the other stuff - which is then passed to the swfobject when the page is rendered sounds like a good way to do this.
And this would avoid the security issues of a naked embed tag, wouldn't it?
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