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ARosS

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spanish-México
Hi everyone!

I hope you're having a nice weekend. I'm struggling with the following sentence:

Apply the embed code.

I asume that the code is a link to get to an internet website, but I want to know if there is any difference between "link" and "embed code" and if "apply" can be translated as "open", "click", etc.

Thank you very much!
Quizás "el código de acceso", o el " código de inserción".La idea es que aplique un código que le es suministrado
Me atrevería a decir que todo link es un código (code) pero no todo código es un link. Puede haber códigos que tengan tags <iframe>, <object>, <embed>, <script>... Por ejemplo, un vídeo de YouTube puede presentarse en forma de link o bien puede incrustarse el propio vídeo dentro del cuerpo del mensaje. Dado que "embed code" significa "código para incrustar / de inserción" pues quizás se podría decir "Aplique el código para incrustar / de inserción".

Un ejemplo de generador automático de "código para incrustar / de inserción" de vídeos de YouTube podría ser: http://www.vtubetools.com/ y cientos más.

Saludos.
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Hola:

La frase tal cual no tiene sentido. Apply the embed code sí que lo tendría. To apply code significa cargar el código (en la memoria del sistema), pero sin mas contexto es solo una suposición.

Saludos.
Hi everyone!

I hope you're having a nice weekend. I'm struggling with the following sentence:

Apply the embed code.

I asume that the code is a link to get to an internet website, but I want to know if there is any difference between "link" and "embed code" and if "apply" can be translated as "open", "click", etc.

Thank you very much!

More context would help to correctly interpret. But here is my guess. A "link" is an Internet address that a user click to make the browser open the corresponding Web page. An "embed code" is a text code that someone like a web developer or a blogger can use to have content from a different Web page appear on his/her Web page. For example, you are a blogger, and you write a piece, and want a certain YouTube video to appear in the blog, you would use the embed code for that video to appear on your blog. The user does not need to open a new page to see the video; the user can view the video directly on your blog. Does that make sense?

Two terms are commonly used to render "embed code" into Spanish: código de empotrado, and código de incrustado.

Saludos,
Enrique
Be careful, I would have expected to read "embedded code" meaning "código empotrado/incrustado", but we have "embed code" instead which would be "incrustar/empotrar código" which does not really work as a grammatical object for "Apply the...".
Without sufficient context, I cannot tell whether this is the way "embed code" is being used in the original question, but this explanation is for "embed code" in general.

Grammatically speaking, you are right that "embed code" would be a verb and its object. But, in the ungrammatical world of the web, many social media sites (YouTube and Google for instance) have adopted the term "embed code" with "embed" functioning as an adjective. What they mean is "code to be used to embed this content from our site into your web page", but what everyone says is 'embed code". If you click on "embed" for a YouTube video, YouTube will generate for you what is now generally called the "embed code" which you can then copy into your HTML page. It is not simply a hyperlink to the content on YouTube; it is code which will actually show the content itself on your web page.

The term is too widespread now; the train cannot be stopped; we are stuck with "embed code" as adjective and noun.
For Spanish there does not yet appear to be a settled term. It probably should be "código de ..." o "código para...". He visto "inserción","publicación", y otros.
Ejemplo en el sitio de Google video:
The embed code is only available on certain videos that were uploaded to Google Video
El código de inserción sólo está disponible en algunos de los vídeos subidos a Google Video.
Hola:

I agree with cubaMania. I hadn't thought of checking how Google video renders it. My tech resources use incrustado and empotrado, but inserción is probably a better option.

Note: It's not an "embedded code" because you are not embedding the code. It's the code you use to embed a multimedia file into your Web page. Not saying that it's correct English grammar, just pointing out why people write it that way. It should really be said "embedding code" or "code for embedding", but well.

Saludos,
Enrique
Thank you very much to everyone. You were really helpfull. 👁 Smile :)
Is embedded code the same as firmware?

Your question is outside of the scope of this forum, but I'll answer it anyway.

In the context of the original question, "embed code" is a string of text that forms a command that allows a user to incorporate content of another Web page into his/her own Web page. For example, when you go to a Yahoo news web page that has a story, and in the middle of the copy, you have a video that actually resides in YouTube, but appears on this page, and you can play it. The embed code allows you to put an multimedia element into your page, so the reader does not have to navigate away and play the content.

Now, there is another sense of "embedded code", in the sense of "embedded systems". From Wikipedia: An embedded system is a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. Embedded systems control many devices in common use today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_system)

In the context of an embedded system, embedded code is the programming that controls an embedded system.

Finally, firmware is compiled software that is written directly into ROM, usually to run systems on a device. (See http://techterms.com/definition/firmware)

From that standpoint, the embedded code of an embedded system could be firmware, but it is not necessarily so.

Saludos,
Enrique
Your question is outside of the scope of this forum, but I'll answer it anyway.

In the context of the original question, "embed code" is a string of text that forms a command that allows a user to incorporate content of another Web page into his/her own Web page. For example, when you go to a Yahoo news web page that has a story, and in the middle of the copy, you have a video that actually resides in YouTube, but appears on this page, and you can play it. The embed code allows you to put an multimedia element into your page, so the reader does not have to navigate away and play the content.

Now, there is another sense of "embedded code", in the sense of "embedded systems". From Wikipedia: An embedded system is a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints. It is embedded as part of a complete device often including hardware and mechanical parts. Embedded systems control many devices in common use today. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_system)

In the context of an embedded system, embedded code is the programming that controls an embedded system.

Finally, firmware is compiled software that is written directly into ROM, usually to run systems on a device. (See http://techterms.com/definition/firmware)

From that standpoint, the embedded code of an embedded system could be firmware, but it is not necessarily so.

Saludos,
Enrique
Enrique, thanks for the excellent reply.
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