Validation errors caused by YouTube code

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Yeah, others have this problem. Most of them don’t care, though.

I always forget which one is invalid – the <embed> or <object> tag. In all honesty – one is valid, the other is not. One was used, bascially, because way back when, Netscape 4 didn’t recognize one of the tags, but everyone else recognized the other. So both have been used for a long time, until W3C deprecated the one tag when using XHTML, and renders your site invalid when using it.

In the end, there are several solutions (I know of a javscript and there’s a plugin, I’ve heard, that handles this issue), but the easiest I’ve come across is to just not use the deprecated tag. You can use *just* the other one, and it’ll still run fine.

EDIT: it’s the <embed> tag that’s not valid. Just don’t use it.

http://www.4tm.com.ar/4tmsite/wordpress/?p=5 – this How-To explains how to convert the invalid code into a valid one by removing the embed tag, and properly use the object one. Of course, the other solution is Viper’s Video Quicktags 🙂 … The object + param solution works for any online flash content: YouTube, Google Video, Metcafe, etc. or a simple FileFactory broken flash player.