Looking to add online video support to Footstops.com, I scoured the internet looking for an online video plugin for the WYSIWYG editor TinyMCE. Everything I found was very insecure, opening up dangerous tags such as <object> and <embed>, to the end user. I wrote mceOnlineVideos as a plugin to add Google and YouTube Videos but uses an image placeholder and replaces the image during output. This keeps the content safe from malicious users but still very usable to end users.

See mceOnlineVideos in action at Footstops or read more about it and download it here.

In other news, there have been some cool developments in the last little while. Ben Klang, an active developer for Horde, is now hosting the main CVS tree for Horde right here on Alkaloid Networks and Jeff Smith is opening up Realclip development again for use in a number of large-scale projects on the horizon... but I'll let those guys fill us in on the details.