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OBJECT tag and IE

Postby Stu » Wed 20 Nov, 2002 4:52 pm

Not strictly a Netscape problem but...

I have been experimenting with the OBJECT tag to 'embed' Flash,
Images and html files into my pages. I have a demo page set
up at http://www.trial-site.com/object.html. This
has all three types of file inserted into the page.

Netscape 7, Mozilla 1.1, Opera 7 all show the page correctly.
BUT (surprise) IE6 insists on putting a border around the
html and image objects with a 'greyed out' vertical
scroll bar.

Firstly, does anyone know how to get rid of the border and scroll
bar? and secondly, how long has Netscape been able to cope
with flash and html using OBJECT? (not embed)?

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removing scrolling bar

Postby Antony » Wed 20 Nov, 2002 7:59 pm

Hello Stu,
If you use <iframe>, you can easily add attribute scrolling="no". I don't have quick solution now, and from my quick search from Danny Goodman's Dynamic HTML - The Definitive Reference, I only can find something related to iframe.

If you want to try...
Use Style Sheet (CSS) to override the behaviour...
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<style type="text/css">
document.getElementById("myObjectName").scrolling = "no";
</style>


(no guarantee it will work, but please let me know)
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Re: OBJECT tag and IE

Postby Hendikins » Thu 21 Nov, 2002 12:27 am

Stu wrote:how long has Netscape been able to cope
with flash and html using OBJECT? (not embed)?


Since 6.0, I believe.

As for IE/Windows, have some fun by using OBJECT to put an image in a page without specifying width/height - it will display nothing. zero zip zilch nought nada. :)
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Postby Stu » Thu 21 Nov, 2002 4:15 am

have some fun by using OBJECT to put an image in a page without specifying width/height - it will display nothing. zero zip zilch nought nada.


I had probems with this 'quirk' initially until I found that width/height is
a must for IE.

I have been experimenting because I have read that XHTML2.0 will drop the img tag in favour of the object tag :).

I didn't use IFRAME because (I believe) this is not supported by all browsers.
Thanks for the CSS suggestion Antony. I thought that there must be a CSS answer to this and will give it a try when I get home tonight. I'll let you know if it works.

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Postby Hendikins » Thu 21 Nov, 2002 4:37 am

IFRAME will do nasty things to Netscape 4 - but then again, so does OBJECT...

As for IE's behaviour - that's a bug, not a feature. The useragent should be able to determine the width/height of the object if it supports it.
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Postby Stu » Thu 21 Nov, 2002 3:16 pm

Antony, thanks for trying but it doesn't work :(

This must be an IE bug/non compliance with the W3C standard.
The browser should make the object large enough to accomodate the
image/text etc without having to specify the width/height values and
scroll bars should only be added if the content does not fit the
width/height (if specified).
Borders should not be added unless specified.

I will see if I can find any way round this on the msn web site but I
don't hold out much hope.

Congratulations to Mozilla and Opera though :)
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Postby Antony » Thu 21 Nov, 2002 6:51 pm

Hendikins wrote:IFRAME will do nasty things to Netscape 4 - but then again, so does OBJECT...

<iframe> would NOT do anything to Netscape 4.
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Postby Stu » Fri 22 Nov, 2002 5:19 am

I have found a work around for the html object.
If I add a body tag to the html as follows:
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<body style="overflow:visible; border:none;">

this removes the 'window border and scroll' from the object.

Still working on the image object. It must be possible using scripting
but I haven't found a way yet.
IE will need to sort this out before xhtml 2.0 in introduced.

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Postby Antony » Fri 22 Nov, 2002 5:46 am

Stu,
Thanks for the overflow style.
However, this wont work still, but I list the syntax below.

DOM example:
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document.getElementById("myDiv").style.overflow = "visible";

CSS Syntax:
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<style type="text/css">
div.aside {overflow: visible }
</style>

Applies to:
block-level, replaced, and positioned elements.
(from Dynamic HTML - The Definitive Reference)

And, correction to my previous post:
It should be script instead.
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<script language="JavaScript1.2">
document.getElementById("myObjectName").scrolling = "no";
</script>


All right, I give up for this. Sorry.
However, I noticed some interesting behaviour...
Netscape 7 would squeeze and stretch the image. :-)g
Just try this...
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<object data="http://www.trial-site.com/images/car_mag.gif" width="340" height="420" type="image/gif" style="overflow: visible"></object>
<object data="http://www.trial-site.com/images/car_mag.gif" width="140" height="80" type="image/gif" style="overflow: visible"></object>
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Postby Stu » Fri 22 Nov, 2002 10:00 am

Thanks anyway Antony. I haven't done much better.
I think that the IE object image is just a patch and will need to
be corrected before xhtml 2.0 in introduced.

I have also notice that if a margin is specified around the object
then IE adds another border around the margin. :roll:

Oh well, stick with img tag for now :)

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