Tech Note: Automatic YouTube/Vimeo Embedding for LGF Pages
We have a great new feature to announce tonight: when you click the LGF Pages bookmarklet on any web page that contains a YouTube or Vimeo video, the bookmarklet now automagically grabs that video’s information and embeds it in your post.
The LGF Pages bookmarklet could always do this if you opened it on the YouTube or Vimeo website, but now it can sense the presence of these video providers on any web page, and react with aplomb, dignity, and quiet reserve. Ahem.
To use this new feature you will have to reinstall your “Create a Page” bookmarklet. First delete the old one, either by dragging it off the bookmark bar or by right-clicking and choosing “Delete.” Then drag that button at the top of the right sidebar labeled “Create a Page” to your bookmark bar in its place, and you’re good to go.
Here’s a page you can test it on, at Right Wing Watch: Robertson Tells Woman Whose Husband Cheated to Remember ‘He’s a Man’ and Be Grateful She Lives in America | Right Wing Watch.
And here’s a screenshot, showing what it looks like when you open the LGF Pages bookmarklet on that page (notice that the video code is automatically generated, along with a link to the original page it came from):
The first release had a small bug, but it’s now fixed. Reinstall the bookmarklet one more time and everything will be groovy.