Jesse Bilsten

These are my links for June 26th through June 30th:

• LESS - Leaner CSS -
• CSS Hacks for Different Versions of Firefox • Perishable Press -
• 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design | CSS | Smashing Magazine -
• LESS - Leaner CSS -
• Project Fondue | CSS Sprite Generator -

These are my links for June 23rd through June 25th:

• Kaltura - Open Source Video Platform -
• beu blog » Blog Archive » 2009 Google Flash SEO -
• jQuery vs MooTools: Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks -
• Tapbots - Robots for your iPhone and iPod Touch. -
• txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator -

These are my links for June 16th through June 22nd:

• Google AJAX Libraries API - Google Code -
• Typekit -
• PageRank sculpting -
• BMW 335d Sedan - Model Overview - BMW North America -
• 4 Principles of Good Design for Websites | My Ink Blog -

These are my links for June 12th through June 16th:

• Supercook: recipe search by ingredients you have at home -
• Deziner Folio » Blog Archive » Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles - Free Download -
• 20 Creative and Unique Typefaces -
• bitblinder -
• Sync, Play & Send to BlackBerry, PSP, iPod, iPhone with doubleTwist -

These are my links for June 2nd through June 12th:

• Beanstalk — Version Control with a Human Face -
• Sad Tuba -
• JonDesign’s (Javascript) SmoothGallery 2.0: Improved Mootools Mojo for Images | Download -
• 40 Exceptional “CMS Enabling” WordPress Plugins | Noupe -
• 10 Wordpress Plugins Guaranteed to Save You Time -

These are my links for June 1st through June 2nd:

• Shadowbox.js Media Viewer -
• 40 Beautiful Examples of Minimalism in Web Design -
• JustProto - Prototype your world! -
• 5 Advanced Techniques for MooTools Development » Clientcide (Formerly CNET’s Clientside) -
• Allan Jardine | Reflections | Design -

These are my links for May 26th through May 29th:

• FARR (Find And Run Robot) - Mouser - Software - DonationCoder.com -
• Costco - Golf Launchpad Tour Home Golf Simulator For PlayStation® 3, PC, Mac -
• Markup Maker - Takes a simple list of page ids that you enter and converts it to a valid XHTML document | Developer Tools | Accessify -
• TechEBlog » Installing OS X on a Dell Mini 9 -
• POSTLETS | free classified ad creation and syndication for real estate, rentals, cars and trucks -

These are my links for May 19th through May 26th:

• RentYield -
• Rental Marketing | Advertising Rentals Online with RentShout.com -
• Six Easy Steps to Start Selling Online with OXID eShop [PHP & MySQL Reviews and Apps] -
• OXID eSales | Shopping Cart Software | Trusted Open Source eCommerce | Webshop Solutions | PHP Cart, Store Software -
• adidas - San Remo P-Sole - Training -

These are my links for May 15th through May 19th:

• furbo.org · Matt Gallagher deserves a medal… -
• Cocoa with Love: Heterogeneous cells in a UITableViewController -
• Highrise Contacts Design Exploration -
• 20 Insane Vectors by Ahmed Alrefaie | Abduzeedo | Graphic Design Inspiration and Photoshop Tutorials -
• neat focus - website design and development by chris rhee & friends -
• 30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials - Day 1 - Intro to the Library — consider: open blog | Web Design, Development and Marketing -

I was working on a video player that had it’s controls rendered in HTML/CSS with Javascript hooks into a SWF file that actually streamed the video when I started looking at trying to use Object instead of an iFrame to display/share the project.  I read just about everything I could find on it:

• 456 Bera St. - Dump iFrames and use Object instead
• Muffin Research Labs - No more iframes?
• Intranation - Using an object instead of an iframe

After reading all of these articles and playing with the results I’ve come to a few conclusions:

• IE doesn’t fully support object’s yet, no matter how you slice it.
• Mozilla and the rest of the standards brigade don’t render the object when

  classid="clsid:25336920-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13"

  is within the object tag.

• External content can be pulled through into an object tag using the data attribute.

So here’s essentially what everyone’s code looks like:

<object width="660" height="399" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></object>

My problem? It doesn’t work reliably across all browsers. IE only renders it when it has a classid and the standards brigade doesn’t render it when it is there. There isn’t a solution that would allow a nice and tide sharing copy/paste line of text that works across all browsers like an iFrame…yet.  And in case you’re not following along, what I’m talking about is something like what YouTube does:

<object width="560" height="340" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/GggVSAPt-HY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GggVSAPt-HY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /></object>

Microsoft, if you’re listening.  Please can you take a look at this and figure something out?  We’d all love to be standards compliant and strict even, but iframe is going the way of the dodo and object isn’t supported by that lovely browser that doesn’t seem to support anything cool.