What about a server side solution? Check the PHP variable: <code> $browser = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; //check to see if it is IE $msie = (stristr($browser, "MSIE") || stristr($browser, "Internet Explorer"); </code> Then on your code, you have an if statement to check if the user is running internet explorer - if so use the embed tags, otherwise use object. Farsheed --- Fabio Varesano <fabio.varesano@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi everybody,
I'm working on making my video module full XHTML compliant.
At the moment the module uses a lot of embed tags for displaying video content (Quicktime, Flash, Wmv, Real, etc...).
The problem is that embed tags are NOT part of any W3C standard and make a Drupal site which uses the Video module NOT W3 standard compliant.
W3 compliant tag for embedding videos on xhtml pages is object but it's not well supported by Internet Explorer... so an object only implementation is not possible.
So I investigate on some work around to create valid code but still IE compatible..
And I finally get some types of solutions: 1 - Javascript hacks: basically leave only the object tag then onLoad add the embed tag to the document. 2 - CSS Tricks creating two nested objects then use some css hacks to hide one 3 - Extending XHTML extends default XHTML dtds to create a custom made embed tag
While the first and second solutions are only hacks and are prone to errors and incompatibility between current and future versions of browsers, the third solution is much more elegant and should be supported by future versions of browsers without giving us headaches.
So.. IMHO the best way in doing this is solution 3.
Extending XHTML can be done in two ways: - creating a custom made DTD - extending an existing DTD by adding new rule as an internal subset directly in the document
The problem is that using a customized DTD will produce a document not validable by W3C validator.. Other validators can be used.
Instead extending DTD directly on document will create a W3 validable document but browsers (even firefox 1.5) will display a "]>" on the first line of the page...
So... I'd like to hear your suggestion in facing this problem. For me the DTD extension on document is the best solution but I need to find some hacks to let browsers hide the "]>"...
What do you think about this???
Thank you.
Fabio Varesano
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