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Re: Only Edwards gets the nationwide bounce from I (none / 0)

I love the delegate counter but...sniff...it won't run on my WordPress.com blogsite..sniff....Help!


by Pericles on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 01:21:28 AM EST

Re: Only Edwards gets the nationwide bounce from I (none / 0)

Maybe Luigi will help see why.


by Jerome Armstrong on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 01:28:01 AM EST
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It's no good on my blogspot site either (none / 0)

See, you can check it here.  Not pretty is it?

But I do like how yours looks and you guys have saved me the trouble of finding a non-MSM widget or creating my own.  Now make it pretty! ;)


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by fabooj on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 02:32:30 AM EST
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Re: It's no good on my blogspot site either (none / 0)

Here's the problem... the code that embeds the widget is getting scrambled on Blogspot sites: for some reason it's changing the order of the parameters in the embed tag, and (unfortunately) they're order dependent.

The order of attributes in the "embed" tag is important with regard to two attributes that are set: one tells it that it shouldn't try to change the scale of the widget when drawn at different heights (scale="noborder"), and the other tells it to draw the widget starting at the top left (salign="lt").  

The problem is that for some reason, Flash only sees the "salign" parameter when it is set AFTER the "scale" parameter.

The embed code provided for the widget has the parameters in the right order... but Blogspot (and perhaps WordPress) is scrambling them. If you can coerce Blogspot to shuffle the code so that the attributes are in the correct order, it should work!


by Malacandra on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 03:50:07 AM EST
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English motherfucker! Can you speak it? (none / 0)

Thanks Malacandra...do you realize that whenever you help me with techie html-y stuff...I feel like a complete idiot?  Can't you just fly down here and fix it for me?  This is the code I have in that module:


<object width="175" height="308"><param value="http://assets.mydd.com/delegatesD.swf" name="movie"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"><param value="noborder" name="scale"><param value="lt" name="salign"><embed width="175" src="http://assets.mydd.com/delegatesD.swf" salign="lt" wmode="transparent" height="308" scale="noborder" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

It looks like to me exactly what the original said.  Am I supposed to bracket out some of those parameters (I make up my only html lingo, so bracket out mean <>)?


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by fabooj on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 04:18:10 AM EST
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Re: English motherfucker! Can you speak it? (none / 0)

Hey, I was a fucking English Major, believe it or not. Long story, short: in the embed tag, scale needs to come before salign: So: You got:
<object width="175" height="308"><param value="http://assets.mydd.com/delegatesD .swf" name="movie"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"><param value="noborder" name="scale"><param value="lt" name="salign"><embed width="175" src="http://assets.mydd.com/delegatesD.s wf" salign="lt" wmode="transparent" height="308" scale="noborder" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" E;</embed></object>
You need it to be:
<object width="175" height="308"><param value="http://assets.mydd.com/delegatesD .swf" name="movie"><param value="transparent" name="wmode"><param value="noborder" name="scale"><param value="lt" name="salign"><embed width="175" src="http://assets.mydd.com/delegatesD.s wf" wmode="transparent" height="308" scale="noborder" salign="lt" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" E;</embed></object>
Theoretically, the order of this stuff shouldn't ever break things. But the difference between "theory" and "practice" is that, in theory, there is no difference... but in practice, there is.
by Malacandra on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 05:24:16 AM EST
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Thank you! (none / 0)

But it didn't work.  :(  It just made the entire box disappear.  See?

BTW, yes I can totally believe you were an English major.  You had used a word or two that just stumped high acidity and me.  And we both said, "English major".


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by fabooj on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 11:32:30 AM EST
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Re: Thank you! (none / 0)

I emailed you on why it disappeared. A space somehow got lodged in the filename for the component. Needless to say, that breaks things.

And for anyone else following this, the embed code now should Just Work.  We simplified the code.


by Malacandra on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 01:03:42 PM EST
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Thanks again (none / 0)

The counters are working and look great!


My blog. Read it.
by fabooj on Mon Jan 07, 2008 at 01:13:11 PM EST
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