Are your Viddler videos cropped when viewed in Internet Explorer but OK in Firefox?
I chose the fantastically flexible and good-looking Mandigo WP theme to build a site and tested a Viddler video on a post and a page. In a page, the Viddler video displayed at the right size on Mac & PC and in I.E. and Firefox.
However, in I.E on the PC the video in a post was shrunk to 200 wide and 450 high. (It displayed correctly in Firefox on both PC and Mac).
I did a quick test: dropped a YouTube video into both post and page. This displayed correctly in I.E. and Firefox…. so….
I then used the YouTube script and changed out the Viddler source file!
Presto! The viddler video playing correctly on Mandigo theme in Internet Explorer.
I’m not a programmer, and I can’t tell you what it is in Viddler’s embed code that caused that problem, but YouTube’s embed code looks slimmer, for starters. Anyone out there come across the same problem and can shed any light on it?
Sorry you had trouble with Viddler’s embed code. We’re going to do some testing on our end to ensure we correct the problem going forward. Thanks so much for writing it up!
Thanks for picking this up, Colin, hope it was useful. We think Viddler’s great and just wanted to highlight a weird effect in I.E. in case there was anything you could tweak.
Meantime, for that particular site we’ll continue to cheat with the YouTube script
will you let us know if something changes?
Cheers!
If you could please post a link to the embed code that you are using I could find out what is going on.
It’s on http://www.mukau.co.uk
You should see it in the source otherwise png here:
http://www.mukaumedia.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/viddler-code.png
Thanks Viddler people!