HTML5 Doctype IE9 about pdfobject

[pipwerks]

Thanks for the info... from what I've seen, both PDFObject and SWFObject have issues in IE9 on Win7 64bit. I think it may be an IE9 64bit bug when handling an <object>.

[jwagner79]

Agree that's an IE9 bug, but I've seen it on 32 bit as well. I found that if I modified the embedding to use an iframe I could get around the issue. Something like

if (hasReaderActiveX()) {
 targetNode.innerHTML = '<iframe src="' + url "' width="' +width +'" height="' +height +'"></iframe>';
}
else {
 targetNode.innerHTML = '<object    data="' +url +'" type="application/pdf" width="' +width +'" height="' +height +'"></object>';

}

[cramhead]

I have a similar problem on IE9 in Browser Mode IE9, Document Mode IE9 standards. The pdf window ends up blank. It seems the request to the server that the object's data attribute specifies is not happening on. It does happen in Chrome, Firefox and the other modes available on IE.
The funny thing is that on your sample pages work fine in Browser Mode IE9, Document Mode IE9 standards.

I've made sure that pdfobject.js is loaded first and even stepped through the pdfobject code. It runs fine.
When dealing with an object tag not refreshing when I changed the data attribute, I had actually had to create a new element and replace the old object tag. I see that you're adding the object tag via the innerHtml. Maybe that's somehow related.

When I change the object tag with the data attribute to an embed tag with a src attribute it works, it makes the call for the pdf and renders.

[pipwerks]

I am investigating switching to <embed> now that a couple of years have passed and HTML5 is considered safe for production. (HTML5 officially supports <embed>, so PDFObject will remain standards-based if the switch is made, which is important to me.)