: Videos from Youtube/Vimeo not displaying in iframes I was giving a webinar about HTML today in Brackets. When showing how to use iframes, all my students managed to insert Google Maps using

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I was giving a webinar about HTML today in Brackets. When showing how to use iframes, all my students managed to insert Google Maps using iframes but no one was able to make the YouTube and Vimeo iframes work (we used the code provided by the services themselves in the embed sections). It worked for me, no hassle (in Brackets, just like them). From what I was told (we had to do without screen sharing this time unfortunately), Live Preview (Brackets browser) displayed the area but with a sad face icon instead of video. I thought it might be due to the Brackets browser but I had a participant working in NotePad++ who was saving to desktop and opening in a regular browser, it didn't work for them either.

My students were mostly teachers, probably assisting the webinar while in their institutions. I raised the hypothesis that possibly videos were filtered in their workplace but someone said they can normally use YouTube (directly that is). I checked the code for one of the iframes and everything seemed fine.

One of my participants eventually got a workaround, by adding https to the URL like so:

<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/80476161" ...


This is the trick my students use to bypass the school filters to access Facebook. Could that confirm my doubts about iframes getting blocked by something in the environment of my participants? What do you think is going wrong here?

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