[sIFR3-dev] OBJECT instead of EMBED

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Mark Wubben wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Simon Pieters wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Currently, the user will get both the fallback and the Flash with CSS 
>> disabled. This could be perhaps be solved by using OBJECT instead of 
>> EMBED:
> 
> A problem in IE is that, when you change the innerHTML of  an ancestor 
> of the Flash movie, IE will forget the Flash variables. It was my 
> reasoning that this would be worse in a real life situation, as there 
> shouldn't be many people with the right Flash version and browser 
> support, but without CSS.
> 
> What are your thoughts on this?

 From what you describe, it sounds like allowing that to get out creates 
a problem not just for sIFR, but for /any/ other script that might do 
something to an ancestor element, no? Seems like asking for trouble if 
I'm correct.