Ivan,
So I went to that sample exhibit using Firefox and invoked the View
Source command. Firefox's source view of the HTML code highlights a
problem in red:
<span ex:content=".description"</span>
The opening span tag seems to be missing its >. Could you please fix
that and let me know if it suddenly works in IE?
David
Ivan Zhidov wrote:
> David,
>
> I provided an example at http://www.inzami.com/exhibit/
>
> source excerpt
> <div ex:if-exists=".videoURL">
> <object width="425" height="355">
> <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
> <embed ex:src-content=".videoURL" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>
> </div>
>
> comes out as
>
> <div>
> <object height="355" width="425">
> <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GKCCrVf7Ols&rel=1";
> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355"
> width="425"></object>
> </div>
>
> Which renders fine in FF but fail;sto render in IE.
>
> As you can see the </param> and </embed> tags of the source go away in
> the generated code.
>
> Ivan
>
> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:13:46 -0500
> From: David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Exhibit problems with some closing tags
> To: General List <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> Ivan,
>
> Could you provide me with an example (meaning, a public URL where I
> can see that it breaks in IE and works in Firefox)?
>
> David
>
> Ivan Zhidov wrote:
>
>> > I noticed that specifying ex:src-content removes closing tags which
>> > causes problems in IE.
>> >
>> > If you try something like this
>> >
>> > <object width="425" height="355">
>> > <param name="mode" value="transparent"></param>
>> > <embed src=".link" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" >
>> wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355">
>> > </embed>
>> > </object>
>> >
>> > what will be generated is this
>> >
>> > <object width="425" height="355">
>> >
>> > <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
>> >
>> > <embed src="http://mypresentation"; >
>> type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425"
>> > height="355">
>> >
>> > </object>
>> >
>> > As you can see the closing</param> and </embed> tags are removed by
>> > the rendering logic.
>> > This may have to do with ex:src-content working primarily in <img>
>> tag > where theres no closing tag.
>> >
>> > Can this be easily fixed?
>> >
>> > Ivan
>
>
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