+1 On 11/4/09 2:20 PM, Marius Dumitru Florea wrote: > Embed HTML elements pose some problems: > > * they are loaded asynchronously and any attempt to access even the > simplest DOM property like nodeType through JavaScript raises an > exception if the object is not fully loaded (closed to > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331672 ). > > * they can't be fully controlled from JavaScript. The specific plugin > that handles each of them decides the display and behavior (e.g. > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250855 a flash movie might > auto start in edit mode and, unless you want to see a movie while > editing, that's not nice). > > * they aren't reloaded after they are detached and reattached to the DOM > tree using JavaScript which means that any DOM manipulation involving > one of the ancestors of a embed node can lead to the disappearance of > the embedded object. Sadly, appendChild, insertBefore and replaceChild > detach the target node before attaching it to the new location. As a > consequence there's no way to move an embed node inside the DOM tree > without detaching it. > > So I propose we replace the embed HTML elements with static image > placeholders just after the edited document finishes loading. The > placeholder will have the same size as the embedded object in view mode. > > Note, ckeditor already does this. You can check by copying the HTML from > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3975 to the source of > http://ckeditor.com/demo . > > I'm +1. > > Thanks, > Marius > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >
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