[Moin-user] Embeded Video and svg images

[R.Bauer]

Matthew Nuzum schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Rick Vanderveer
> <rick.vanderveer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Waqas,
>> After struggling for a long time, we were never able to get the EmbedObject
>> macro to work reliably or predictably.  We finally gave up and just escape
>> to raw html.  You need to download a 'raw' parser, as the built-in html
>> parser doesn't allow full media control. This is fine for internal-only
>> wiki's like ours, but if your wiki is public-facing it is highly advised not
>> to use the raw macro (since a knowledgeable user can use it to write
>> virtually any code they want, which can be dangerous).
> 
> Creating macros isn't hard, so instead of using RAW another option is
> to just create a macro that accepts a single param (the url to the
> media file) and then writes the necessary HTML. If you suitably
> check/sanitize the URL then it should be safe for public wikis too.

If this doessn't work for you
<<EmbedObject(target=http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger/test.mpg,url_mimetype=video/mpeg)>>
please file a bug report

cheers
Reimar

> 
> Better yet would be to accept a relative url and let your macro
> prepend the domain name. Someone in my company wrote a macro like this
> for displaying graphs.
> 
> My concern with the RAW, even in a closed wiki, isn't necessarily
> malicious users but clueless/naive users. It's the age-old "blunt
> instrument" analogy. Soon you'll your users putting <blink> tags in
> your wiki. :-/
>