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

Fri Apr 28 08:53:01 PDT 2006

I don't know, it's working fine for me in IE 6. And the reason I'm using 
it is because I am extending xhtml with an additional namespace.

Test here: http://xekogame.dev.endquote.com/

-josh

Geoff Stearns wrote:
> 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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