object tag not working IE8 2

[1DMF]

Hi,

I have been trying to implement valid markup with social media plugins using w3c's recommended object tag method.

It seems to work fine in IE9, Opera, FireFox & Chrome, but not IE8?

this is the code i'm using

<object data="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fdance-music.org%2F&amp;show_faces=false&amp;layout=button_count"[/URL] style="border:none; width:100px; height:35px"></object>

Why is it not working in IE8?

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[1DMF]

Just tested and it doesn't work in IE7 either.

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[vacunita]

Everything I can find points to the fact that IE does not support the object tag in the same way other browsers do.

However, adding a type attribute to the object tag seems to have gotten it to work:

<object data="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fdance-music.org%2F&amp;show_faces=false&amp;layout=button_count"[/URL] [red]type="text/html"[/red] style="border:none; width:100px; height:35px">
</object>

It does however throw a warning, and an error, but after that it works.

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[1DMF]

It didn't seem to work for me and if you put IE8/7 in compatability mode you just get an empty 'iframe' looking box.

I've given up ad gone back to the non-valid <g> <fb> tags.

At least they are cross-browser compatible in all modes!

I thought <object> was an MS tag deprecating <embed> , so the fact it doesn't work is mind-boggling!

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

The MSDN reference has this to say:

Internet Explorer 9. In IE9 Standards mode, the object element is allowed to load content from other domains. In IE8 Standards mode, however, this is not allowed.

So, if you're trying to get it working in IE8 in standards mode, it looks like you're out of luck, assuming you aren't editing facebook.com :-D.

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[1DMF]

Thanys for trying guys.

I was quite excited when W3 replied to my email with a potential valid way of doing things.. alas it was not to be :-(

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