<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>there's a few problems with doing that... i've tried a couple times to get something working, but it always breaks in 'browser x' or ends up being 2x the current size to get it working because of all the special cases you have to account for because of specific browser shortcomings.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>another issue is: many browsers don't support the <object> tag as it was intended, which leaves you with needing the embed tag, which isn't 'standards compliant' anyway, so why bend over backwards to use DOM methods when you have to create an embed tag with them anyway?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>once browsers support plugins a little better when using the <object> tag, then yes, i'll update the script, but until that time (and it's a long ways away) i don't see any choice other than innerHTML.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 6, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Gordon Myers wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Any chance we'll ever see an update in the SWFObject code to use the createElement(), appendChild(), and removeChild() methods, rather than the (non-W3C-compliant) innerHTML method?<BR><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1">How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger’s low <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman8/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com"> PC-to-Phone call rates.</A><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>