You read about the fmt=18 parameter to watch the higher quality .mp4 files at Youtube, but you don’t know how to “embed” these videos? Well, here is a valid “XHTML 1 Strict” code to put Youtube’s higher quality .mp4’s on your site:

Just replace *** with the url of the Youtube file – not the url of the youtube page! If there is no Youtube .mp4 version available, it will display the lower quality version instead, no worries.

Youtube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXAMPLE
Youtube file: http://www.youtube.com/v/EXAMPLE

It was easy to install in the first place, just two lines of code had to been added, but anyways, FancyZoom just got out as a wordpress plugin, thanks to Stephen Granade. You can download WP FancyZoom 1.0 (featuring FancyZoom 1.1) at Live Granades.

• Focused on the smoothest, most polished zooming animation possible
• Automatically scales images from any image link, with no HTML changes
• Preloads full-size images in the background on link mouseover
• No resource-heavy Javascript libraries — 100% coded from scratch to zoom
• Draws a nice drop shadow under the full-size image to offset it from the page
• Uses Safari 3's "box-shadow" feature to draw the drop shadow natively, no images required
• Tested and works with Safari, Firefox, IE7, and IE6. (Looks better in modern browsers.)

 
Click the image to see how it works:

After the upgrade to Safari 3.1 i was sniffing through the preferences and spotted “Show develop menu in menu bar” under the advanced tab. Not really a threat to Firebug, but there are interesting features in there.

Noticed the “Mobile Safari 1.3.1 - iPhone” user agent? Could come in handy i guess.