EMBED tag inside OBJECT is removed by IE

[fredck]

When adding a flash object through the SOURCE view and saving a page with IE it strips out the <embed> tag. This leaves the flash to work in IE but not in Firefox (1.0).

When editing in Firefox - however - the <embed> tag remains and all is well.

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Moved from SF:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1082447&group_id=75348&atid=543653

[fredck]

I confirm this is still a problem in 2.1.1. Although there is now a dialog for inserting Flash, if you insert <embed> and <object> tags using source mode, say to add a QuickTime movie, IE will strip out the <embed> tags.

Moved from SF. Original commenter: aussi

[fredck]

Version 2.2 also do that :(

Moved from SF. Original poster: Anonymous

[fredck]

I am finding this to be a problem as well. By default, the 'Insert Flash Object' toolbar option uses an <embed> tag only, as opposed to an <object> tag with an <embed> tag within it. When this page is served up in the setupI run (it is loaded into an <iframe> surrounded by navigation controls and banners), and when that window is resized, the flash objects flicker and disappear and cause all sorts of problems. When the same page uses <object> tags, it resizes smoothly and there's no problem. But then you have the issue described in this bug with the editor not displaying the flash object properly anymore.

Hope a solution presents itself.

bj.

Moved from SF. Original poster: jupiter_one

[fredck]

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1530003&group_id=75348&atid=543653 has been marked as duplicate of this bug

Moved from SF. Original poster: alfonsoml

[alfonsoml]

As noted in https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1661658&group_id=75348&atid=543653 now the behavior is the inverse: now the object is removed and the embed is preserved for both Firefox and IE.

Also thanks to changeset [147] now it's possible to include the code provided by youtube for example and the flash placeholder appears.

I don't know why the object doesn't appear now in IE and it would be interesting to know, but at least now editing the object+embed in IE doesn't mean that it no longer works in Mozilla.

[fredck]

Replying to alfonsoml:

I don't know why the object doesn't appear now in IE and it would be interesting to know

I've created #359 and explained it there.

[fredck]

This problem is the complete opposite of #359, but the solution could be the same.

Looking at MS's documentation, here is what we have:

"If an object fails to instantiate for any reason, the HTML inside the OBJECT element is rendered"

But, if the object is successfully instantiated, "the HTML inside the OBJECT element" is completely ignored in the DOM tree. In other words, the <embed> element simply doesn't exist.

As explained in #359, a solution for it would be removing the <object> tag when loading the WYSIWYG view and placing it back when submitting or switching to source. To do that, for now, just add the following to the fckconfig.js file:

FCKConfig.ProtectedSource.Add( /<object[\s|\S]+?<\/object>/gi ) ;

We'll be much probably handle this internally in the editor code, not requiring it to be included in the configuration file. So, I'm leaving this ticket opened until the fix is not available.

Does this fix seams reasonable?

[fredck]

Fixed with [327].

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