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Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

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    Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

    I am developing an App that categorizes and displays Facebook (FB) videos. FB requires the placement of its javascript SDK prior to the code for the video. The pre-display code, which I have placed, in separate tests, as either a static text field or in the source code for the page on which the App resides with identical results, is:

    <div id="fb-root"></div>
    <script>(function(d, s, id) {
    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];
    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;
    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;
    js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3&appId=899807173363736";
    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);
    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script>


    An example of the code for the embedded video which is generated dynamically from the database field which holds the video URL is (note I have tried this with a static video embed code with the same issue) :

    <div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/facebook/videos/10153415714906729/" data-width="500"></div>

    The issue is that the embedded FB video embeds properly for the rows of data on the first page of the list but upon loading more rows of data, the new rows do not show the video while the existing rows continue to work properly. I have tried the different pagination techniques ("auto fetch" and "fetch more" button).

    It appears that when a new "page" of data from the list is loaded, the FB Javascript code is not recognized.

    Lastly, I note that I have tried the same thing with YouTube embeded video, which does not require any pre-loaded Javascript, and it works just fine.

    I assume this has something to do with how the list loads. Is there a way to force the Javascript to load each time a page is fetched or any other solution? Thoughts on this interesting problem would be greatly appreciated.

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    Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

    Originally posted by ecalan View Post
    I assume this has something to do with how the list loads. Is there a way to force the Javascript to load each time a page is fetched or any other solution? Thoughts on this interesting problem would be greatly appreciated.
    This is not a problem with the list control or how it loads.

    The reason your videos aren't being displayed on subsequent pages is that the Facebook API is not being invoked to parse the page and embed those videos. The script they have you embed to include their API parses the entire web page and replaces all the <div> elements identified as fb-video with their respective videos when the API .js files are done loading. When the list is navigated, it doesn't call any functions in Facebook's API. You need to add the calls to invoke Facebook's parser to embed the videos.

    Check this thread over at StackOverflow.com; it should point you in the right direction or at least get you closer to the answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...video-via-ajax
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      Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

      Excellent. Thank you Sarah. I was thinking of the FB code as loading a reference library rather than being executed on existing HTML at runtime. This is my first foray into API. I added the simple code from from the page you suggested, FB.XFBML.parse();, to the AfterAjaxCallback event and... Done!

      Only issue remaining is that the list does not scroll on mobile devices, at least my android, when contact is made with the video and not the surrounding space. It makes the list feel broken. Any ideas for that one? I shall investigate because I believe this must be a common problem outside of Alpha.

      Thanks Again!

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        Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

        Originally posted by ecalan View Post
        Excellent. Thank you Sarah. I was thinking of the FB code as loading a reference library rather than being executed on existing HTML at runtime. This is my first foray into API. I added the simple code from from the page you suggested, FB.XFBML.parse();, to the AfterAjaxCallback event and... Done!

        Only issue remaining is that the list does not scroll on mobile devices, at least my android, when contact is made with the video and not the surrounding space. It makes the list feel broken. Any ideas for that one? I shall investigate because I believe this must be a common problem outside of Alpha.

        Thanks Again!
        I don't know how you'd fix that. Sounds like the video is capturing all your touch events and not passing any of them up to the document. :(
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          Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

          You are correct, Sarah. One forum described it as video embeds "hijacking the scroll." I never noticed it with the YouTube based app I made because I actually inserted just the thumbnail image from YT in the list and then caused the video to play on click in an AA video player component. I think it looks great but it would probably be better if it scrolled with videos playing in place like Vine. I have seen some solutions but nothing perfect yet. For example, an overlay div will bring back the scroll but you can't play the video. Perhaps a click event could be placed on the overlay that passes the play command to the video? Another option would be to use the FB thumbnail the way I did with YouTube but AA's player component does not integrate directly with FB. Thoughts would be appreciated.

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            Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

            Originally posted by ecalan View Post
            You are correct, Sarah. One forum described it as video embeds "hijacking the scroll." I never noticed it with the YouTube based app I made because I actually inserted just the thumbnail image from YT in the list and then caused the video to play on click in an AA video player component. I think it looks great but it would probably be better if it scrolled with videos playing in place like Vine. I have seen some solutions but nothing perfect yet. For example, an overlay div will bring back the scroll but you can't play the video. Perhaps a click event could be placed on the overlay that passes the play command to the video? Another option would be to use the FB thumbnail the way I did with YouTube but AA's player component does not integrate directly with FB. Thoughts would be appreciated.
            Javascript functions are just objects. If you can find the offending code, you could change it. Chrome's debugging tools will print the contents of a function to the console - assuming it's not a core JS function. Functions have a method, toString, you can call to print the function's code. EG:

            Code:
            alert({dialog.object}.getValue.toString());
            If you wanted to redefine the function definition for a function:

            Code:
            {dialog.object}.getValue = function () {
              alert("Error: Don't re-define methods in {dialog.object}. It's a horrible idea.");
              return undefined;
            }
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              Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

              It's also possible that adding an event listener (see $e.add) on the touch events to capture those scroll/pan/whatever events and passing them through to the browser somehow might work. I'm not as well versed in event propagation as I could be, but maybe a separate event listener can circumvent the issue --- probably a idea than hacking Facebook's javascript to bend to your will.
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                Re: Embedding Facebook video into list control not working with paginated data

                The above two posts are, of course, probably the worst road to travel. You may be able to do it with a simple overlay around the video element: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7...be-flash-video
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