16 November 2009, 17:31

I've just tried it on 1.1 stable and on 1.2. It works fine for me, what I did was:

• Click on your link
• Copy the embed code from slideshare.net
• Make a view
• add a text box
• Click on the 'HTML' button
• Pasted the embed code in
• Saved the block

It then worked for me in Firefox, and I could see your presentation. Didn't work in chrome because I don't have flash enabled there, but that's to be expected.

Are those roughly the steps you took?

Also, what version of Mahara are you running? 

18 November 2009, 6:51

Those are exactly the steps I took. Browser is the latest firefox; Mahara version 1.1.5

Any ideas what might be wrong? Youtube embedds work fine by the way.

18 November 2009, 17:10

18 November 2009, 18:24

http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/social/collabuni/view/view.php?id=29

Check out this view. There you can see that the slideshare presentations aren't properly embedded.

19 November 2009, 0:30

Indeed, it looks like the HTML for the slideshare <object> isn't in the outputted source. The trick is to work out whether TinyMCE stripped it, or whether it made it to the database and then HTMLPurifier stripped it.

How adept are you at looking around in the database? Could you please run this query, paste the result to a paste service like http://paste.dollyfish.net.nz/ and then link to that here?

SELECT * FROM block_instance WHERE id = 131; 

19 November 2009, 9:46

Hi Nigel,

 looks like the slideshare object isn't even making it into the db.

Here's the entry: http://paste.dollyfish.net.nz/82ad35

Any idea how to fix this?

19 November 2009, 22:05

Actually, the slideshare <embed> _did_ make it into the database, and when I put a copy of your config data into one of my blocks, I could see your presentation! 

The other thing that's strange is that I can see the presentation in Google Chrome. So I _do_ have flash enabled - it's just that I can't see your presentation on your site either. Which points to your site running some buggy code.

What version of Mahara are you running? 

20 November 2009, 5:17

It's version 1.1.5

I'm planing to update pretty soon though. Hopefully this will fix the problem. I'll keep you posted! Thx again