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

Fri Apr 28 07:01:43 PDT 2006

right, that post confirms that IE7 won't s support it either.

doctype != mime type

On Apr 28, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Greg Brant wrote:

> Fyi re:"ie doens't even support application/xhtm+xml..."
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/09/15/467901.aspx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
> [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Geoff
> Stearns
> Sent: 28 April 2006 13:24
> To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> Subject: Re: [SWFObject] swfobject 1.4 broken in safari 2.0.3 in  
> strict
> mode
>
> interesting that safari's strict mode doesn't like
> document.location.hash, but firefox is ok with it.
>
> anyway, the dom stuff is a huge pain in the ass to get to work... i
> could make adjustments to make it work in safari, but then it would
> break in opera (opera is amazingly picky when creating elements that
> aren't in the dom).
>
> Then, ie doens't even support application/xhtm+xml...
>
> I did notice that SWFObject does work in Firefox if you send your  
> pages
> as applicaton/xhtml+xml, because for some reason they left  
> innerHTML on,
> but it's not really a documented feature.
>
> My stance on this subject is basically this: application/xhtml+xml  
> is a
> HUGE pain in the ass to get plugins in general to work when using
> Javascript to write them. It seems that every browser requires  
> different
> tags and has different quirks, and I think it's just not really worth
> it, since using 'real' xhtml doesn't really have any advantage to  
> 99% of
> the people out there.
>
> Unless you are using MathML or otherwise extending xhtml, there aren't
> any real benefits to it (not to mention shutting out IE users, or
> sending a text/html version of your page anyway).
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:06 AM, Josh Santangelo wrote:
>
>> 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
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