Comments on: Embedding your Google Doc Presentations http://techticker.net/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/ educational technology, eLearning & emerging technology Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:27:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Love for Horses - Joni Solis http://techticker.net/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-2373 A Love for Horses - Joni Solis Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:40:51 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/#comment-2373 Yes, I have my own hosted wordpress blog, but use a wordpress.com site for our pet rescue. The wordpress.com blog can embed slide.com slideshows which are nice, so I wonder why other sites' stuff cannot be made to embed into the blog. Do you know if the presentations from Author Stream http://www.authorstream.com/ be embedded on a wordpress.com blog? Yes, I have my own hosted wordpress blog, but use a wordpress.com site for our pet rescue. The wordpress.com blog can embed slide.com slideshows which are nice, so I wonder why other sites’ stuff cannot be made to embed into the blog.

Do you know if the presentations from Author Stream http://www.authorstream.com/ be embedded on a wordpress.com blog?

]]> By: Mike Bogle http://techticker.net/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-2371 Mike Bogle Fri, 26 Dec 2008 12:18:11 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/#comment-2371 Hi Joni, My impression of WP.com blogs is that they're very strict on use of embedded media, javascript and particularly i-frames. Google Docs presentations uses an i-frame and from memory WP.com strips out most of the code snippet, rendering it ineffective. Based on the research I've done into the matter in the past, WP.com has not been particularly willing to discuss the policy stance on this sort of embedded content. So my guess is that it won't change any time in the near future. This is one of the main reasons I left WP.com and started my own hosted blog based on the WordPress framework. I love the blog engine but really couldn't stand how closed it was to customisation options. Many of the key tools I wanted to use - such as Seesmic for example - were unavailable due to their limitations. So it wasn't working for me. Hi Joni,

My impression of WP.com blogs is that they’re very strict on use of embedded media, javascript and particularly i-frames. Google Docs presentations uses an i-frame and from memory WP.com strips out most of the code snippet, rendering it ineffective. Based on the research I’ve done into the matter in the past, WP.com has not been particularly willing to discuss the policy stance on this sort of embedded content. So my guess is that it won’t change any time in the near future.

This is one of the main reasons I left WP.com and started my own hosted blog based on the WordPress framework. I love the blog engine but really couldn’t stand how closed it was to customisation options. Many of the key tools I wanted to use – such as Seesmic for example – were unavailable due to their limitations. So it wasn’t working for me.

]]> By: A Love for Horses - Joni Solis http://techticker.net/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/comment-page-1/#comment-2337 A Love for Horses - Joni Solis Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:44:08 +0000 http://mbogle.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/embedding-your-google-doc-presentations/#comment-2337 I spent hours trying to find a way to embed a Google Docs Presentation into a WordPress.com blog with no luck. It is a shame it cannot be done. Do you think that will change any time soon? Nice presentation by the way. I spent hours trying to find a way to embed a Google Docs Presentation into a WordPress.com blog with no luck. It is a shame it cannot be done. Do you think that will change any time soon?

Nice presentation by the way.

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