I can't make this Javascript work in IE

Hi. I am working on a script that is part of displaying a video feed on a web page (with php and javascript). I design on a linux machine running firefox. For the last few days I have been trying to figure out how to make this work in IE. There is something wrong, but I can't make stupid Internet Explorer to give me any sensible error messages.

var my_div = null;
var newObject = null;
var newParam = null;
var newEmbed = null;
var d = null;
var element = null;
var id = null;
var autoPlay = null;

function getBrowserName() {
var browserName = "";

var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
if ( ua.indexOf( "opera" ) != -1 ) {
browserName = "opera";
} else if ( ua.indexOf( "msie" ) != -1 ) {
browserName = "msie";
} else if ( ua.indexOf( "safari" ) != -1 ) {
browserName = "safari";
} else if ( ua.indexOf( "mozilla" ) != -1 ) {
if ( ua.indexOf( "firefox" ) != -1 ) {
browserName = "firefox";
} else {
browserName = "mozilla";
}
}

return browserName;
};

function showMovie(id, autoPlay) {

if (document.getElementById("movie")) {
this.removeMovie("movie");
}

var browser = this.getBrowserName();

newObject = document.createElement("object");
newObject.setAttribute("id","movie");
newObject.setAttribute("height","$height");
newObject.setAttribute("width","$width");

newParam = document.createElement("param");
newParam.setAttribute("name","movie");
newParam.setAttribute("value", "http://www.youtube.com/v/"+id+"&autoplay="+autoPlay+"&hl=en");
newParam2 = document.createElement("param");
newParam2.setAttribute("name", "wmode");
newParam2.setAttribute("value", "transparent");

newEmbed = document.createElement("embed");
newEmbed.setAttribute("src", "http://www.youtube.com/v/"+id+"&autoplay="+autoPlay+"&hl=en");
newEmbed.setAttribute("type","application/x-shockwave-flash")
newEmbed.setAttribute("wmode", "transparent");
newEmbed.setAttribute("height", "$height");
newEmbed.setAttribute("width", "$width");

my_div = document.getElementById("parent");
my_div.appendChild(newObject);
newObject.appendChild(newParam);
newObject.appendChild(newParam2);
newObject.appendChild(newEmbed);
}

function removeMovie(element)
{
var browser = this.getBrowserName();
object = document.getElementById("movie");

if (browser == "firefox" || browser == "mozilla" || browser == "opera" || browser == "safari")
{
while (object.childNodes[0])
{
object.removeChild(object.childNodes[0]);
}
}

if (browser =="msie")
{
object.removeNode(true);
}
}

 

Ok, so I got myself Microsoft Script Debugger to help me trace errors in Internet Explorer. Turns out IE is kicking on my dynamic creation of an <embed> tag. I'll try to hard-code the video element tags, and append them instead. If I get it to work I'll post what I did for reference

 

I have hardcoded something like this in HTML:
<object id="movie">
<param id="movieinfo"></param>
<param id="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
<embed id="embed" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed>
</object>

Then I e. g. tried to do this with javascript:
newObject = document.getElementById("movie");
newEmbed = document.getElementById("embed");
newEmbed.setAttribute("src", "http://www.youtube.com/v/"+id+"&amp;autoplay="+autoPlay+"&amp;hl=en");
newEmbed.setAttribute("height", "$height");
newEmbed.setAttribute("width", "$width");

my_div = document.getElementById("parent");
my_div.appendChild(newObject);
newObject.appendChild(newEmbed);

...which obviously didn't work. How can I do this? What I want to do is make for instance the embed tag that I hardcoded from <embed id="embed"></embed> into <embed id="embed" src="http://mynicesource.com"></embed> without having to make the tag itself, because IE returns an error if I do, but I'm thinking I might work around it by just adding to the existing tag. Does this make any sense?

 

Erm... nevermind... I'm such a noob :-D

Of course, all I had to do was
src = newEmbed.setAttribute("src","http://www.whatever.com");
newEmbed.appendchild("src")
for instance.

So thank you me for answering my question. Oh, don't mention it.

 

LOL

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