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While surfing on the Internet I found this page on how to pass data from one page to another. After a while, I realized that the script used on the page actually contains a technique (implicitly) for deferring document.write. Just for the fun of it, I modified the script so as to have some easy ways of dynamically inserting internal and external content into a given div via document.write. Here it is:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function HttpRequest(url){
var pageRequest

...

The 'iframe shim technique' lets us overlay a div over windowed elements such as flash objects, select boxes and applets. The trick is to have the div accompanied by an iframe that must have exactly the same size and position as the div, whose z-index must be higher than the iframe's z-index. The windowed element itself must have a lower z-index and the iframe should have a background-color. Here's an example of how to have a div overlay a flash object:

<iframe style="position: ...

People using YouTube-playlists do so on their YouTube-channels, most of the time. But we don't need YouTube to broadcast our YouTube-playlists. We only need YouTube to create them and to determine our playlist-number(s). If you want to broadcast your playlists outside any channel, do the following.

Go to http://www.youtube.com/my_videos. (You have to create a YouTube account if you are 'new').
Create a playlist and add videos to it by clicking on 'add videos', or simply add ...

I was playing around with some code recently and discovered - more or less by accident - that we can include any fully functioning standalone menu by doing the following. The scripts and styles belonging to the external file will be preserved after inclusion:
1. We put this script just before the closing body-tag of the external file:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
try{top.document.getElementById('container_div').innerHTML=document.documentElement.innerHTML}

...

The player used on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID is YouTube's version3 player. If you want to use it directly (without the watch?v= part) you can do, for instance: http://www.youtube.com/v/EUSsXdhxFIM?version=3. (You may have to press CTRL if you want this to work in IE).

The advantage of the version3-player over other versions is that a click on a playing video doesn't open a new YouTube window containing all sorts of information that you may not be interested in. The click ...