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Created April 6, 2011 21:12
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//try every way we can to get the object ref. The new SwfObject code uses 'object' even for Mozilla browsers... tricky
var elem=((navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('msie')>=0)?'OBJECT':'EMBED');
var objRef;
try{
objRef = document.getElementById(objID).parentNode.getElementsByTagName(elem)[0];
}catch(e){}
if(!objRef)
objRef = document.getElementById(objID);
if(!objRef)
objRef = document.getElementsByName(objID)[0];
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