We’ve been fans of Vimeo‘s service for a long time. I use it for my personal projects and family captures and we also have an official Vimeo Channel for the 8BIT Network as well now.
They are seriously legit.
And I just realized that they have upgraded their embed code to handle iPads, iPhones, and other Flash-enabled devices:
The embed code is now in the form of an iframe instead of your typical syntax.
The only problem that I’ve had is that in WordPress, when you switch from the HTML tab to the Visual tab you actually lose the code in the process.
Doh!
Otherwise, I think this is a great move and I imagine most video platforms will have to conform to this new usability standard… or die.
Vimeo FTW!
Youtube’s had that for about a month now: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/07/new-way-to-embed-youtube-videos.html
yeah, but we expected that, right? do you like vimeo better or youtube betteR?
Expect it from both, vimeo is quality service, no doubt.
I like ‘using’ vimeo better. Can post up longer vids, better user experience imo, and better place to put up videos that are more “specialized” that you don’t want everyone to watch.
But that last one is the problem, it’s hard for people to organically “find” vimeo videos. Youtube is far superior for videos you really want out in public.
Now if only they will update their video reel widget to use iframes and to be nicer looking widgets.
I just don’t understand services that refuse to convert to ipad/iphone standards. Even adobe. If I were adobe, I’d work my BUTT off to get flash and mac os to cooperate.
I noticed this the other day as well. I am super stoked about it. I have experienced the disappearing iframe before as well. Kind of annoying.
If you don’t mind having the video show up at the top or bottom of your post. You can throw this into your template and just put the video ID into a custom field called “vimeo”
$value ) {;
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<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/” width=”280″ height=”158″ frameborder=”0″>
I’m not much of a coder some I’m not really sure of the implications of this on your theme (lead time, etc.) plus the one downside is that you can’t really put the video in the middle of your content.
Wasn’t really sure if the code was going to come out. I guess the concept is there.
Put the Video ID into a custom field and build the iframe into your template.
I like it.
Thanks for the heads up on the HTML and Visual tabs… I noticed some problems earlier this week when I was working in wordpress, just thought it was being glitchy.