Iframely
Iframely has created a great service that can allow embeds from
over 1900 domains.
But, it's not free; and, it almost certainly doesn't have
great privacy characteristics
with so many requests to 3rd parties flying around,
running javascript on the client ...
Edit: I found out iframely has a feature called
"user consents" that allows users to opt-in
to 3rd party content. So, really great product from
the privacy aspect too! Seems like a good deal to
me. I'll update this post if/when I get user consents
working properly and decide to support
this permanently.
Update2: Iframely is great and I decided to pay for it.
They are great on privacy and open source too.
I don't have any problems with them.
You can now embed just about anything very easily!
Still, Iframely is so pretty and so easy to implement
and so powerful that I've decided to add the capability
to free2z and see how it goes.
Some examples of what you can do with it
on free2z. Basically you just add
::iframe[ANY URL YOU WANT]500px.com
You can use virtually any image site.
For example, a sweet picture from
Lieven Maris on 500px.com:
::iframe[https://500px.com/photo/1045730600/Longtailed-tit-by-Lieven-Maris?ctx_page=1&from=popular]Google Maps
If you want to advertise a location
for an event or a business, for example,
you could use use Google Maps or
probably any other popular map provider
::iframe[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Smithsonian+National+Museum+of+American+History/@38.8914829,-77.0308172,18z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b7b798ecb5b2c7:0x32b2170679e71dea!8m2!3d38.8912793!4d-77.0300509]Beatport
You can embed arbitrary rich content like your homie's beatport.
iNaturalist
What can you not do?
You can embed iNaturalist observations to tell
a rich story:
::iframe[https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/109113138]Dropbox
Dropbox embeds are sweet.
::iframe[https://www.dropbox.com/s/lj99nj8r3ppk3bg/JJR_ChildhoodHomies_97bpm.wav]Conclusion
Edit/Update: Iframely is the bomb and I bought it and love it!
Great on privacy!
Iframely is not free and would create
intrinsic privacy snafus.
BUT, man if that's not cool.
That looks like the internet I want to
contribute to ...
When I started this iframe.ly experiment,
I wasn't altogether optimistic
that it would result in something that I was
enthusiastic about, that I
wanted to pay iframe.ly to embed 3rd party
content.
Maybe I'm not a huge fan of the adverby.ly domain names.
Primarily, I'm just looking for simple ways
to share images, videos and sounds for myself
conveniently, safely and cheaply.
Anyways, iframe.ly is a really cool product.
I'll let the experiment continue.
If people like it, I will consider making
this integration permanent.