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http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/BBC1-2013-STINGS-DRWHO50-1.mp4

Can't remember why those Ident Gallery embeds don't work on Firefox, but here's a direct link:

http://www.theidentgallery.com/misc/misc/BBC1-2013-STINGS-DRWHO50-1.mp4

David

A cursory search (and by no means in depth) suggests that Firefox has deprecated the embed tag. I can't vouch for the accuracy of that - so if anyone knows any better...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/941072

The Flash object shows up on the page just fine, but on clicking play it just spins and spins. Extracting what looks like the URL and pasting it into the address bar results in a 404. Apparently there's some rule about not using certain characters (&, =) inside the flashvars parameters that Firefox is a stickler for but IE isn't. The main suggestion seems to be to use swfobject to embed Flash stuff over any other method.

I notice that now Strictly Come Dancing is coming from elsewhere (is it Elstree?), the voiceover at the beginning now just says 'Live, from the BBC', as opposed to 'Live, from Television Centre', and 'Live, from London' before that.

Yes, it is from Elstree, specifically the George Lucas Stage at Elstree Studios (which is different to BBC Elstree).

Not that Elstree is in London, but I suppose 'Live from Borehamwood' doesn't have the same ring to it

Tony Hall has announced a '+1' service for BBC One:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/dg-bbcone-plus1.html

It was "Live, from the Strictly Ballroom" this week which to my ears is a slight improvement over "Live, from the BBC". More factual as well