I think I said this a few months ago or something, but the top video here isn't working.
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that is pretty bizarre, though. guess there's one more thing i forgot to check ...
*checks*
O_O
wow. your persistence is legendary, and i am indebted to you twice now (first for making content for me to post on my site). please allow me to explain what happened here:
don't worry if that looks like chinese or something to you. i've numbered the lines so you can find what i'm talking about more easily.
do you see how lines 2-6 all start with a tag, and line 7 starts with an tag? well, it turns out that internet explorer stopped supporting the old netscape plug-in format (which it had assimilated in order to monopolize the browser market years earlier) in version 6.0. that meant that i had to start using the and tags to embed videos on pages (for internet explorer's activex crap) as well as the old tags (for everything else).
this is dangerous, because if i'm not careful when i make new pages, i might make an error in one of the many tags and never know it was there (since i don't actively test every update with internet explorer for windows). this is the first known case of something like that happening.
upon further investigation, there was yet another level of complication preventing the error from being detected until now. it turns out that i had originally marked w.dawgs's noc tricks as "speed tricks" ... before the 100 percent tricks section was launched. unfortunately, i never changed the internet explorer and netscape standard links to the first video to their new 100_percent_tricks names (in addition to one referring to a file that wasn't even there, the one ending in 1_1). keep in mind that the speed_tricks_noc_1.mp4 video was still present on the server until just now, so only the link ending in _1_1.mp4 was actually bad.
my only theory as to why it didn't work for wassup dawgs and did for everyone else is that somehow, something on w.dawgs's computer was preventing the server from auto-correcting the file name for him (e.g. rewriting it to resemble a file that actually existed, speed_tricks_noc_1_1.mp4 --> speed_tricks_noc_1.mp4). no clue what this could be, except maybe a weird version of quicktime or something.
the error has been corrected. thanks for your patience and dedication, w.dawgs and everyone else who might be reading this.
*checks*
O_O
wow. your persistence is legendary, and i am indebted to you twice now (first for making content for me to post on my site). please allow me to explain what happened here:
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1 <OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="256" CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"> 2 <PARAM name="SRC" VALUE="moviestart.mov"> 3 <PARAM name="HREF" VALUE="speed_tricks_noc_1_1.mp4"> 4 <PARAM name="AUTOPLAY" VALUE="true"> 5 <PARAM NAME="CONTROLLER" VALUE="FALSE"> 6 <PARAM name="TARGET" VALUE="myself"> 7 <embed src="moviestart.mov" target="myself" href="speed_tricks_noc_1.mp4" autoplay="true" width="320" height="256" controller="false" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"></embed> 8 </OBJECT>
don't worry if that looks like chinese or something to you. i've numbered the lines so you can find what i'm talking about more easily.
do you see how lines 2-6 all start with a tag, and line 7 starts with an tag? well, it turns out that internet explorer stopped supporting the old netscape plug-in format (which it had assimilated in order to monopolize the browser market years earlier) in version 6.0. that meant that i had to start using the and tags to embed videos on pages (for internet explorer's activex crap) as well as the old tags (for everything else).
this is dangerous, because if i'm not careful when i make new pages, i might make an error in one of the many tags and never know it was there (since i don't actively test every update with internet explorer for windows). this is the first known case of something like that happening.
upon further investigation, there was yet another level of complication preventing the error from being detected until now. it turns out that i had originally marked w.dawgs's noc tricks as "speed tricks" ... before the 100 percent tricks section was launched. unfortunately, i never changed the internet explorer and netscape standard links to the first video to their new 100_percent_tricks names (in addition to one referring to a file that wasn't even there, the one ending in 1_1). keep in mind that the speed_tricks_noc_1.mp4 video was still present on the server until just now, so only the link ending in _1_1.mp4 was actually bad.
my only theory as to why it didn't work for wassup dawgs and did for everyone else is that somehow, something on w.dawgs's computer was preventing the server from auto-correcting the file name for him (e.g. rewriting it to resemble a file that actually existed, speed_tricks_noc_1_1.mp4 --> speed_tricks_noc_1.mp4). no clue what this could be, except maybe a weird version of quicktime or something.
the error has been corrected. thanks for your patience and dedication, w.dawgs and everyone else who might be reading this.