+[[!meta date="2008-12-26 15:27:49 -0500"]]
+
Content from sites such as YouTube can be embedded into a web page. Maybe
you want to do this. But you'll find that the [[plugins/htmlscrubber]]
doesn't let you. It blocks the tags used to embed such content, because
Some plugins have been written to try to work around this problem, by
whitelisting the html needed to embed things from a few sites like Google
-calendar, videos, and YouTube. The problem with these plugins is that they
-have to be kept up to date to add new sites, and follow changes to the html
-such sites use for embedding.
+maps, calendar, videos, and YouTube. The problem with these plugins is that
+they have to be kept up to date to add new sites, and follow changes to the
+html such sites use for embedding.
(Digression: The real problem with the plugins is that they hide the
underlying trust relationship. If you decide to embed html from a site,
needs to trust you.)
The [[plugins/htmlscrubber]] offers a different way around this problem.
-You can configure it to skip scrubbing certian pages, so that content from
+You can configure it to skip scrubbing certain pages, so that content from
elsewhere can be embedded on those pages. Then use [[plugins/lockedit]]
to limit who can edit those unscrubbed pages.