title: YouTube Video Doesn't Load on Mobile Device (Embedded in a Lightbox)
body: <p>I have a <strong>YouTube video</strong> embedded, and it opens inside a Javascript called <strong>VideoBox</strong>. (Sorta like Lightbox) </p>
  
  <p>Everything works fine on my site, but not so much when I try to open it on my iPhone. I suspect it's the way I've embedded it, but I could only find one way that worked with <strong>autoplay enabled</strong> (because I want the video to start when the link is clicked).</p>
  
  <p><strong>Also</strong>, the Videobox/lightbox works on my phone. It opens up a box with the caption I've included, but the video doesn't load.</p>
  
  <p>This script uses the link only, so I don't have the option of using an iFrame... I don't think.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Here's the HTML:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/2sAnENc6ObI&amp;autoplay=1" rel="vidbox" 
  title="The Rainbox Connection"&gt;
  &lt;img src="playbtn.png" class="fakeplay" alt="Play Button"&gt;
  The Rainbow Connection (Video)&lt;/a&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I don't think the VideoBox is the problem, but just in case... here's the Javascript for that.</p>
  
  <p><strong>VideoBox:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>var Videobox = {
  
  init: function (options) {
      // init default options
      this.options = Object.extend({
          resizeDuration: 400,    // Duration of height and width resizing (ms)
          initialWidth: 250,      // Initial width of the box (px)
          initialHeight: 250,     // Initial height of the box (px)
          defaultWidth: 625,      // Default width of the box (px)
          defaultHeight: 350, // Default height of the box (px)
          animateCaption: true,   // Enable/Disable caption animation
          flvplayer: 'swf/flvplayer.swf'
      }, options || {});
  
      this.anchors = [];
      $A($$('a')).each(function(el){
          if(el.rel &amp;&amp; el.href &amp;&amp; el.rel.test('^vidbox', 'i')) {
              el.addEvent('click', function (e) {
        e = new Event(e);
        e.stop();
        this.click(el);
              }.bind(this));
              this.anchors.push(el);
          }
  }, this);
  
      this.overlay = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbOverlay').injectInside(document.body);
      this.center = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbCenter').setStyles({width: this.options.initialWidth+'px', height: this.options.initialHeight+'px', marginLeft: '-'+(this.options.initialWidth/2)+'px', display: 'none'}).injectInside(document.body);
  
      this.bottomContainer = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbBottomContainer').setStyle('display', 'none').injectInside(document.body);
      this.bottom = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbBottom').injectInside(this.bottomContainer);
      new Element('a').setProperties({id: 'lbCloseLink', href: '#'}).injectInside(this.bottom).onclick = this.overlay.onclick = this.close.bind(this);
      this.caption = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbCaption').injectInside(this.bottom);
      this.number = new Element('div').setProperty('id', 'lbNumber').injectInside(this.bottom);
      new Element('div').setStyle('clear', 'both').injectInside(this.bottom);
  
      var nextEffect = this.nextEffect.bind(this);
      this.fx = {
          overlay: this.overlay.effect('opacity', {duration: 500}).hide(),
          center: this.center.effects({duration: 500, transition: Fx.Transitions.sineInOut, onComplete: nextEffect}),
          bottom: this.bottom.effect('margin-top', {duration: 400})
      };
  
  },
  
  click: function(link) {
  
          return this.open (link.href, link.title, link.rel);
  
  },
  open: function(sLinkHref, sLinkTitle, sLinkRel) {
      this.href = sLinkHref;
      this.title = sLinkTitle;
      this.rel = sLinkRel;
      this.position();
      this.setup();
      this.video(this.href);
      this.top = Window.getScrollTop() + (Window.getHeight() / 15);
      this.center.setStyles({top: this.top+'px', display: ''});
      this.fx.overlay.start(0.8);
      this.step = 1;
      this.center.setStyle('background','#fff url(loading.gif) no-repeat center');
      this.caption.innerHTML = this.title;
      this.fx.center.start({'height': [this.options.contentsHeight]});
  },
  
  setup: function(){
      var aDim = this.rel.match(/[0-9]+/g);
      this.options.contentsWidth = (aDim &amp;&amp; (aDim[0] &gt; 0)) ? aDim[0] : this.options.defaultWidth;
      this.options.contentsHeight = (aDim &amp;&amp; (aDim[1] &gt; 0)) ? aDim[1] : this.options.defaultHeight;
  
  },
  
  position: function(){
  this.overlay.setStyles({'top': window.getScrollTop()+'px', 'height': window.getHeight()+'px'});
  },
  
  video: function(sLinkHref){
      if (sLinkHref.match(/youtube\.com\/watch/i)) {
    this.flash = true;
          var hRef = sLinkHref;
          var videoId = hRef.split('=');
          this.videoID = videoId[1];
          this.so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/"+this.videoID, "flvvideo", this.options.contentsWidth, this.options.contentsHeight, "0");
          this.so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
      }
      else if (sLinkHref.match(/metacafe\.com\/watch/i)) {
    this.flash = true;
          var hRef = sLinkHref;
          var videoId = hRef.split('/');
          this.videoID = videoId[4];
          this.so = new SWFObject("http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/"+this.videoID+"/.swf", "flvvideo", this.options.contentsWidth, this.options.contentsHeight, "0");
          this.so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
      }
      else if (sLinkHref.match(/google\.com\/videoplay/i)) {
    this.flash = true;
          var hRef = sLinkHref;
          var videoId = hRef.split('=');
          this.videoID = videoId[1];
          this.so = new SWFObject("http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId="+this.videoID+"&amp;hl=en", "flvvideo", this.options.contentsWidth, this.options.contentsHeight, "0");
          this.so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
      }
      else if (sLinkHref.match(/ifilm\.com\/video/i)) {
        this.flash = true;
          var hRef = sLinkHref;
          var videoId = hRef.split('video/');
          this.videoID = videoId[1];
          this.so = new SWFObject("http://www.ifilm.com/efp", "flvvideo", this.options.contentsWidth, this.options.contentsHeight, "0", "#000");
          this.so.addVariable("flvbaseclip", this.videoID+"&amp;");
          this.so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
      }
      else if (sLinkHref.match(/\.mov/i)) {
        this.flash = false;
          if (navigator.plugins &amp;&amp; navigator.plugins.length) {
        this.other ='&lt;object id="qtboxMovie" type="video/quicktime" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" data="'+sLinkHref+'" width="'+this.options.contentsWidth+'" height="'+this.options.contentsHeight+'"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="'+sLinkHref+'" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="aspect" /&gt;&lt;param name="controller" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="autoplay" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /&gt;&lt;param name="enablejavascript" value="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;';
    } else {
      this.other = '&lt;object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab" width="'+this.options.contentsWidth+'" height="'+this.options.contentsHeight+'" id="qtboxMovie"&gt;&lt;param name="src" value="'+sLinkHref+'" /&gt;&lt;param name="scale" value="aspect" /&gt;&lt;param name="controller" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="autoplay" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /&gt;&lt;param name="enablejavascript" value="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;';
    }
      }
      else if (sLinkHref.match(/\.wmv/i) || sLinkHref.match(/\.asx/i)) {
      this.flash = false;
       this.other = '&lt;object NAME="Player" WIDTH="'+this.options.contentsWidth+'" HEIGHT="'+this.options.contentsHeight+'" align="left" hspace="0" type="application/x-oleobject" CLASSID="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6"&gt;&lt;param NAME="URL" VALUE="'+sLinkHref+'"&gt;&lt;param&gt;&lt;param NAME="AUTOSTART" VALUE="false"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="showControls" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed WIDTH="'+this.options.contentsWidth+'" HEIGHT="'+this.options.contentsHeight+'" align="left" hspace="0" SRC="'+sLinkHref+'" TYPE="application/x-oleobject" AUTOSTART="false"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;'
      }
      else if (sLinkHref.match(/\.flv/i)) {
       this.flash = true;
       this.so = new SWFObject(this.options.flvplayer+"?file="+sLinkHref, "flvvideo", this.options.contentsWidth, this.options.contentsHeight, "0", "#000");
      }
      else {
        this.flash = true;
          this.videoID = sLinkHref;
          this.so = new SWFObject(this.videoID, "flvvideo", this.options.contentsWidth, this.options.contentsHeight, "0");
      }
  },
  
  nextEffect: function(){
      switch (this.step++){
      case 1:
          this.fx.center.start({'width': [this.options.contentsWidth], 'marginLeft': [this.options.contentsWidth/-2]});
          break;
          this.step++;
      case 2:
          this.center.setStyle('background','#fff');
          this.flash ? this.so.write(this.center) : this.center.setHTML(this.other) ;
          this.bottomContainer.setStyles({top: (this.top + this.center.clientHeight)+'px', height: '0px', marginLeft: this.center.style.marginLeft, width: this.options.contentsWidth+'px',display: ''});
          if (this.options.animateCaption){
              this.fx.bottom.set(-this.bottom.offsetHeight);
              this.bottomContainer.style.height = '';
              this.fx.bottom.start(0);
              break;
          }
          this.bottomContainer.style.height = '';
          this.step++;
      }
  },
  
  close: function(){
      this.fx.overlay.start(0);
      this.center.style.display = this.bottomContainer.style.display = 'none';
      this.center.innerHTML = '';
      return false;
  }};window.addEvent('domready', Videobox.init.bind(Videobox));
  </code></pre>