Web Objects: Feasible vs Practical

Sep 18, 2023

Hey y'all,

I have been working on a huge course with a ton of external citations, and sometimes the reference material is so good that I want to add a web object on a slide. However, almost every link I try to use will not work. For example: https://digital.lib.niu.edu/illinois/lincoln/topics/blackhawk/phases.

I've looked at the articles on web objects, but I would like more information. What snippit of code is locking me out of using these websites? Is there something about the website's build that makes web objects not work? How many sites are using web-object-blocking-function, and are we getting to the point where inserting web objects is just not useful anymore?

Thanks,
Pierre

2 Replies

Jürgen Schoenemeyer

7 months ago09/18/23 at 7:00 pm (UTC)

most website don't allow to be embed in a web object (= iframe), you get such an error

Chrome:

Firefox:

If you get such error messages, you need to look for an official embed code with a special allowed URL

e.g. youtube

embed in iframe not allowed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3L0fbtftRY
embed in iframe allowed: https://www.youtube.com/embed/c3L0fbtftRY

but many websites do not have such special embeddable URLs - this is a decision of the website owner

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Phil Mayor
Hero

7 months ago09/19/23 at 2:21 pm (UTC)

I would avoid web objects for external content unless you built it yourself. Web content changes frequently in a huge course you will be chasing after broken links all of the time. Same with links, I try to avoid both were ever I can.