# Onebox shown as iframe raw html

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-shown-as-iframe-raw-html/65935>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [July 10, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-shown-as-iframe-raw-html/65935 "2017-07-10T12:31:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2017, 6:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-shown-as-iframe-raw-html/65935/6 "2017-07-10T18:54:50Z")

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The preview cannot play a video, so it makes up HTML based on the image and text provided.

The actual content uses the video tag and the URL they provide, which is broken in this case.

Oneboxing is indeed fragile because it depends on content on other people’s sites that is free to change at any time.

> **[Garbage in, garbage out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out)**
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> In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality (garbage) information or input produces a result or output of similar ("garbage") quality. The saying points to the need to improve data quality in, for example, programming. Rubbish in, rubbish out (RIRO) is an alternate wording.
> The principle applies to all logical argumentation: soundness implies validity, but validity does not imply soundness. In other words, assumptions matter: even if som...

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