so i had a couple videos to mention and i figured i'd use the chance to write an ikiwiki template to do so. it's not the most flexible, but it works! current template code, put into templates/youtube.mdwn:

<div class="youtube">
 <object width="445" height="364" 
     data="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/<TMPL_VAR raw_v>&fs=1&border=1" >
  <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
  <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
  <param name="movie" 
     value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/<TMPL_VAR raw_v>&fs=1&border=1" />
 </object>
</div>

using it:

[[!template  id=youtube v="sPq3c5D65hE"]]

gets you:

(not sure if that will show up on a syndicated site)

it's also xhtml compliant, unalike the default "share this" text and what's produced by the deprecated embed plugin. it also uses the "no automatic cookies" option provided by youtube. i might try and break out a few more options into parameters the next time i post videos.

on a related note, does anyone know a good way to include/display the code of a template on a page? this stuff here is just cut/pasted but it would be nicer to be able to not have to do that to keep it up to date.