Ability to pass additional querystring vars

[nathanpitman]

It would be neat to be able to pass additional embed querystring vars, i.e. we often want to hide the 'info bar' for YouTube vids... showinfo=0

:)

[bryanburgers]

@nathanpitman Agreed. I also want this. (Sorry for the slow response.)

I'm thinking through the API here.

{videolink-field:embed
    width="..."
    height="..."
    youtube:controls="2"
    youtube:showinfo="0"
    vimeo:other="x"}

If this is a YouTube embed, we'd get //www.youtube.com/embed/1234?rel=0&controls=2&showinfo=0. If it's a Vimeo embed, we'd get //player.vimeo.com/video/1234?other=x.

I like this API. It seems intuitive enough.

I think we also need to think about how we're going to pass parameters to the <iframe> tag itself, instead of the embed URL. (See #6.) This syntax would let us do iframe:wmode="Opaque". Would a user would ever want to pass an iframe parameter to just a YouTube iframe, or to just a Vimeo iframe? Then what's the parameter? iframe:youtube:wmode="Opaque"?

We only support Vimeo and YouTube right now, and both are embedding using an <iframe>. So it's probably too early to think about what we would do if we needed to support a service that uses <embed>.

@nathanpitman @Mark-cr @bfopma @cmtracy Thoughts? Does this syntax look alright? Does the iframe:parameter="..." syntax look acceptable?

[nathanpitman]

Syntax looks good, RE iFrames/Embeds... does anyone provide embed only support these days? The general trend seems to be towards iFrame over embed so perhaps there's no need to worry too much about embeds? iFrames generally provide better support across devices so I can't see this trend changing anytime soon. :)