On March 31, 2015, the centrally-hosted version of the Embed Wall will stop working. If you would like to continue using the Embed Wall beyond this date, you can switch to using a copy hosted on your own site.

The Embed Wall was developed to enable web publishers to present photo and video content using the Cooliris Wall user interface. The Embed Wall fetches photos and videos from a supported source, and enables users to browse, view, and play slideshows.

The Embed Wall is no longer supported, and the centrally-hosted copy will become unavailable on March 31, 2015. Since many web properties still depend on it, we are making the SWF available for self-hosting to smooth the transition to a long-term solution.

The Embed Wall is based on Adobe Flash. We recommend that you transition your experience to use another solution based on modern web standards. If you continue to use the Embed Wall, please consider the following:

• The Embed Wall is no longer supported, and we cannot guarantee that it will continue to work properly.
• The Embed Wall does not work on mobile browsers, or on desktop browsers without the Flash plugin.
• api:// URLs for Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and YouTube depend on hardcoded API keys, and therefore may stop working at some point.
• http(s):// URLs referencing Media RSS feeds are a more reliable option.

If you are using an embed code, change the SWF URL to point at a self-hosted copy:

1. Host cooliris.swf at a URL on your web server.
2. Replace the http://apps.cooliris.com/embed/cooliris.swf link in the embed code with your URL.
3. In your embed code, change allowScriptAccess to never:

<object id="…" classid="…" width="…" height="…">
  <param name="movie" value="http://{YOUR URL}/cooliris.swf"/>
  <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/>
  <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never"/>
  <param name="bgColor" value="…"/>
  <param name="flashvars" value="feed=…"/>
  <param name="wmode" value="opaque"/>
  <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    src="http://{YOUR URL}/cooliris.swf"
    width="…"
    height="…"
    allowfullscreen="true"
    allowscriptaccess="never"
    bgcolor="…"
    flashvars="feed=…"
    wmode="opaque">
  </embed> 
</object> 

If you used the Cooliris Express tool to generate an embed code, make sure that the flashvars in your embed code uses a feed=… parameter. If your embed code uses a z=… parameter, then you are using a centrally-hosted wall. In this case, we recommend that you switch to a feed URL, e.g. flashvars="feed=http://your/media.rss". Centrally-hosted walls will stop working on March 31, 2015.

If your page uses JavaScript to integrate more deeply with the Embed Wall, you can continue to do so by self-hosting the JavaScript bridge alongside the SWF.

1. Host cooliris.swf and cooliris-embed.js at URLs on your web server.
2. See the JavaScript HTML example for an example of how to initialize the JavaScript bridge with self-hosted SWF and JS files. The ordering is important:
3. Include cooliris-embed.js to set up the cooliris global object.
4. Set the onEmbedInitialized() callback to register for user interaction events.
5. Insert the Embed Wall into the page.

The cooliris.embed API should continue to work as before.

We hope that the above information enables you to successfully self-host the Embed Wall as a bridge to a more long-term solution. If you have questions or feedback, please direct them to [email protected]. While the Embed Wall is no longer officially supported, we will do our best to answer your questions through the transition period, ending March 31, 2015.