[SWFObject] swfobject 1.4 broken in safari 2.0.3 in strict mode

Thu Apr 27 23:06:49 PDT 2006

I'm working on a page which is in XHTML 1.1 strict, and SWF object 
breaks in Safari. I thought I'd post about it before trying to fix it.

My document starts like this (served with an application/xhtml+xml header):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" 
xmlns:s="http://endquote.com/XMLShell/2.0/" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="application/xhtml+xml; 
charset=utf-8" />

On line 161, it breaks if document.location.search is undefined. 
Replacing that line with this:

var q = location.search || location.hash;

Fixes it.

Then it dies on line 106 with a "Dom Exception 7", which seems to mean 
you can't write to the innerHTML (a div in this case).

It's looking like the solution is to do a bunch of DOM-style 
createElement calls, then removeChild all the children of the target 
node, then appendChild with the new Flash object.

I could go ahead and make that change, but I thought I'd check to see if 
anyone can duplicate the error, or tell me why that solution would be a 
bad idea.

thanks,
-josh