VP-48: Video Player can cause errors in Internet Explore related to any DOM manipulation of tags IE has never heard of (such as <source> and <video>)

Metadata

Source
VP-48
Type
Bug
Priority
Critical
Status
Closed
Resolution
Fixed
Assignee
Colin Clark
Reporter
Colin Clark
Created
2009-11-30T20:02:33.000-0500
Updated
2013-01-28T09:25:21.783-0500
Versions
N/A
Fixed Versions
N/A
Component
N/A

Description

Video Player will throw errors in Internet Explorer under any of the following conditions:

1. Injecting a <video> tag into the document when one hasn't been specified by the user
2. Injecting any child into an existing <video> tag, such as when we inject a YouTube <object> tag

This appears to be caused by the fact that IE will freak when manipulating any tag it has never heard of. As a result, we'll have to write some code to work around the issue by actively removing <video> tags from the markup in IE before proceeding with the graceful degradation approach.

Comments

  • Colin Clark commented 2009-11-30T20:14:23.000-0500

    This issue was fixed at r8773.