IE requests document twice about pdfobject

[pipwerks]

That's a very interesting link, thanks for passing it along. More proof IE is a pain to deal with.

So the question becomes "what's more important: reducing GET requests, or producing a streamlined utility that produces standards-compliant markup?"

Implementing your fix -- which is very similar to SWFObject's inner workings -- adds complexity to the codebase (I admit it isn't too bad), and produces non-standard code. What makes it even trickier is that IE 10 is supposed to behave the same as non-IE browsers, which means the classid addition might possibly fail or at the very least be unnecessary.

sigh

Thanks again.

[pipwerks]

Thanks, it's been a few years since this case was opened. Now that Microsoft is clearly moving away from ActiveX and proprietary code (attempting to make their latest browsers behave more like Chrome/Firefox/Webkit), I will aim to avoid any IE-specific cod where I can.