j_martin

This editor/bulletin board program is too "smart" to get a Fox News Video to link or display, either one.

Would be good to just let a link be a link instead of trying to embed it automatically.

Lary Ellis (Top)

I see lots of links here for videos everyday....not sure what the problem is your having? I would be happy to look into it if you can give me some info

j_martin

I tried to link a fox news story, which happens to be a video. Understanding that fox injects adverts, etc, I tried this:

First I wrote the headline, put it in larger type.

Medal of Honor recipient: ISIS, just try me

Then I highlighted that and tried to insert the link below, without the leading and trailing quotes.

"http://video.foxnews.com/v/3923192431001/#sp=show-clips"

It should have displayed the headline, underlined, and upon clicking opened a new page with the link.

Instead it tried to run it embedded, with the expected charlie foxtrot resulting.

IMHO I think it should be set up so a link is a link, and something embedded is embedded, like the you tube sequence for instance, author's choice. It seems that things have changed so if you try to put in a link, the page tries to run it as embedded. It won't always work, and there doesn't seem to be a work around.

Sometimes simpler is better.

Lary Ellis (Top)

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3923192431001/#sp=show-clipsSimplest way to do it is to click on "insert link" just to the right of the text (font) colors box at the top of the message box when you make a post or reply to one.

Then all you do is paste the link in the box it opens for that purpose....easy peasy

j_martin

That's exactly the method I used.

charlie foxtrot

Lary Ellis (Top)

I removed the quotes and inserted the link you posted in my last post....it is a bad link.

j_martin

I took the link, just this moment, and put it my FireFox browser, and it ran.

At least you duplicated the problem.

Fox news has a goofy advert system, which is known to be rather finicky and often stupidly slow. That's probably why an imbedded link, which ads one or two more jumps to the stack, blows up in their system on occasion.

A simple "here's the link, try it in your browser" would probably work.

Lary Ellis (Top)

I think Fox moves their links around as the story's change...I have seen this before with them. Yeah I wish it were easier but we don't design the forum software, it comes this way from Vbulletin....

j_martin

I'd bet there's a configuration switch you can set off, something like "auto run url's", similar to what you'd find in your e-mail program.

Lary Ellis (Top)

I will be happy to look into it but some stuff like that is not enabled due to security issues. For every Good guy like yourself that just wants to help people there are 5,000 looking for a way to cause havoc.....

j_martin

I work on networks, including security. We turn off auto execute for security reasons.

The active firewall looks at links coming though in html documents, checks the site for opening page mischief, and deletes the link if neccessary.

E-mail users are not allowed to set their own preference. A link is just displayed as a clickable link. To go there, the user has to click on it. Users are reminded frequently to not click on anything they don't explicitly thust and expect.

On this site, autoexec is turned on, and that is a security risk, not only for the site, but for it's users.

Lary Ellis (Top)

The network engineers here have their own ideas of security so it matters little what you or I feel is better....I guess they feel what they are doing is working fine on the 130 some forums they own so why change it....

j_martin

Just for grins and giggles, why don't you ask them how to use that link?

Lary Ellis (Top)

I am sending them a link

Shovelhead

Medal of Honor recipient: ISIS, just try me | On Air Videos | Fox News

I copied your link, then went to the bottom of the compose post screen and unclicked the Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on). box.
The result was an underlined link with a title a reader could click on.

Is that what you were trying to accomplish?