I changed the title of this wishlist item to be more encompassing after https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=7716&post=35760
For security reasons, I think we might want to tie that in with our allowed iframe sources and have an internal allowlist like we do have for iframes. ** Summary changed: - Use oEmbed/ogp for the external video block to support more sites? + Use oEmbed to embed more external content -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mahara Contributors, which is subscribed to Mahara. Matching subscriptions: mahara-contributors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/956866 Title: Use oEmbed to embed more external content Status in Mahara: Triaged Bug description: Currently the external Video block supports fixed list of content providers. Which happens to be quite limited. Another approach to support external content is to rely on meta data provided in the page to extract the content and embed it. Two protocols exists to do that: - open graph protocol - i.e. Facebook - oEmbed Those two allows you not only to embed videos but more generaly to add rich content - slides, audio, etc. Both are very well supported by content providers. Those protocols are open ended, that is you are not limited to a fixed list of sites but allows you to embed content from any site supporting them. We developped our own artefact plugin to circumvent those limitations - another one exists based on embed.ly - but I believe it would make sense to extend/modify the video block and provide support at the core level. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/956866/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mahara-contributors More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
