You may have noticed I didn’t post anything again last month. Except for the post that was meant for the previous month. The purpose of the song of the month was to force me to post something once a month. However from this point forward… I’m just going to post things whenever I feel like it. Anyway here’s two videos to make up for the video that I didn’t post. The first one I specifically posted to showoff that the html5 youtube player now supports closed captions. Sadly, a lot of people ignore this feature and use annotations to achieve the same thing, which is however currently not supported in the html5 player. If you don’t see the html5 player and you see the flash player you can opt into the youtube html5 beta by going here.

I can’t help but complain that google isn’t using valid html for their new iframe embed though. The default code they use is this.

<iframe
title="YouTube video player"
width="640"
height="390"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QAUSdtUlL8w"
frameborder="0"
allowfullscreen></iframe>

I’m not sure what allowfullscreen is doing but, it’s not determining weather or not the player plays in fullscreen or not. The title attribute doesn’t exist and afaik serves no purpose. It’s also using frameborder=0 rather than CSS!

I changed the code to the following which accomplished the same task and it validates.

<iframe
style="width: 640px; height: 390px; border: 0px;"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QAUSdtUlL8w"></iframe>

I just realized I forgot to post a song this month !

So here’s the belated video.

I made a WordPress plugin to copy users from a vBulletin user table to the WordPress users table for Xen of Onslaught. It’s part of the new website we are working on and we needed the accounts on both the main site and the forum. It’s not all that complicated but it took me a bit of time to do. A special thanks to everyone in the #wordpress channel on freenode for answering my questions. I don’t have plans on updating the plugin much since it does what I intended it to do. However if a large amount of people out there are looking for something like this I’ll try to update it and add new features. I’ll add a link here to the plugin page on wordpress.org once my submission gets approved.

Here’s the link to the plugin for anyone interested.
vB User Copy