lol, claus got an extra 'e' in there somehow... and became a clause! like santa!
On Sep 15, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Geoff Stearns wrote: > Well, I agree with clause on the whole 'why bother with xhtml/xml > mime types... > > But some people have legitimate uses for it, so that's cool. > > Here's the thing about supporting it: using the DOM to create the > embed and object tags is a HUGE pain in the ass. Nearly every browser > has it's own quirks and things you have to work around to get it > working in each one. so because of this it bloats the file size by > quite a bit compared to using a simple innerHTML call. > > Then on top of that, you add in the fact that people building > websites that are coded like that are so few, (there's like 50 total > that i know of - out of the billions and billions of websites out > there) then you start to think that it's not really worth it. > > Then, as if that's not enough, you hear standards advocates talking > about how xhtml (proper) is basically a failed language anyway, and > that HTML is really the way to go for web stuff, then you start to > think that it's an even bigger waste of time. > > So as of now, I have no plans to put any work into making SWFObject > work with application/xhtml+xml websites. > > Now, that said, I want to point out that in the last few revs of > firefox, they added innerHTML support for application/xhtml+xml > websites, which made SWFObject start working. > > Here's a test page I put together (i just adjusted it to use this new > 2.0 update) and you can see it will display the flash movie (at least > in firefox). but keep in mind that this isn't exactly 'proper' > support and i'm not sure i would rely on it for a big production > website. > > http://blog.deconcept.com/code/flashobjectxml.php > > Bobby has put together support for xhtml+xml stuff in UFO, and he > actually advertises it, so i'd say use that instead of swfobject if > you are really worried about that stuff. > > > > On Sep 15, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Claus Wahlers wrote: > >> Michael Stuhr wrote: >> >>> Claus Wahlers schrieb: >>>> Geoff, i'm not entirely sure but i think i read somewhere that >>>> SWFObject >>>> doesn't work with XHTML documents served as 'application/xhtml >>>> +xml'? I'm >>>> serving most of my documents with that mimetype (to clients that >>>> support >>>> it). Is there a problem or am i imagining things? >>> why do you do that ? (rhetorical) >>> read >>> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html#accept >>> says can /should >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/ >>> says te same, but >>> http://schneegans.de/web/xhtml/ >>> has some good point too. >> >> http://www.hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml >> He has a point too. >> >> Cheers! >> >> -- >> claus wahlers >> côdeazur brasil >> http://codeazur.com.br >> >> _______________________________________________ >> osflash mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
