Enable Youtube Api On Existing Player

I have an embeded youtube video which I want the YouTube API applied. I add the url parameter using jQuery as follows (demo): $(document).ready(function(){ var obj = $('object');

Solution 1:

Regarding swfobject - yes. IE treats flash embeds slightly differently (thanks activex) than all the other browsers. check out this article to get an idea of why, and the SWFObject documentation for more information.

Also, I recently created a jQuery plugin to help control the embedded player using the player API (basically what you're doing).

Check it out, it's the jQuery TubePlayer plugin - http://www.tikku.com/jquery-youtube-tubeplayer-plugin

Solution 2:

IE isn't finding $('object') maybe because you need to specify the right type ( do an alert on the obj length ), but if you do obj = $('embed') it'll work. It might be wise to wrap things around in a different way, that is do $('<div id="test/>') and then append the embed/objects and change the src and movie values.

EDIT: IE doesn't seem to register object until it has a type or clsid attribute specified, eg

EDIT #2: You can probably just inspect the outerHTML of the object element @ http://savedbythegoog.appspot.com/retrieve_cache?unique_id=http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/samples/boilerplateHTML/youtube/chromeless.html|http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/samples/js/youtube/chromeless.js&defaultSample=true