switching an Iframe media player with plugin decection

riptide2049

I really have a problem here. I have a code that is suppost to take the href of a link from the right class;value of a link maked toreturn false. the value is a Media file the file is sent to quicktime or windows meida player depending on which plugin was found. after the plug in is found a iframe with the right player is created.

here is the code. for some reason In IE the plug in doesnt work and in fire fox it crashes

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 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<script language="javascript"  type="text/javascript">
 
/*if you have windows media player*/

function WMPFrame() { 

var iframe = document.createElement("iframe"); 

iframe.setAttribute("src", "WMPIframe.html"); 

iframe.setAttribute("id", "playerframe"); 

iframe.setAttribute("scrolling", "no"); 

iframe.setAttribute("frameBorder", "0"); 

iframe.setAttribute( "width", "200" );

iframe.setAttribute( "height", "200" );

document.getElementById('misterioProgram').appendChild(iframe); 

} 
 
/*if you have quicktime*/

function QUIFrame() { 

var Frame = document.createElement("iframe"); 

Frame.setAttribute("src", "QuicktimeIfram.html"); 

Frame.setAttribute("id", "timeframe"); 

Frame.setAttribute("scrolling", "no"); 

Frame.setAttribute("frameBorder", "0"); 

Frame.setAttribute( "width", "200" );

Frame.setAttribute( "height", "200" );

document.getElementById('misterioProgram').appendChild(Frame); 

} 
 
/*if you have no plugins*/
 
function read(){

var answer = confirm ("Please click on OK to continue loading my page, or CANCEL to be directed to the Yahoo site.")

if (answer)
 
var MKDIV = document.createElement( 'div' );

MKDIV.setAttribute('id','pluginsite');

MKDIV.style.backgroundColor="#F0CCF0";

MKDIV.style.border = '1px solid blue'; 

MKDIV.style.left = '35%'

MKDIV.style.top = '200px'

MKDIV.style.width = '300px'

MKDIV.style.heigh = '200px'

MKDIV.style.font = '14px arial #FF6666'

MKDIV.style.position='absolute' 

document.getElementsByTagName( 'body' )[0].appendChild( MKDIV );

MKDIV.appendChild(document.createTextNode("To download quick time \u00a0 "))
 
var lQT=document.createElement('a');

 lQT.setAttribute('href','http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab' );

 lQT.appendChild( document.createTextNode( 'QuickTime' ) );

 MKDIV.appendChild(lQT); 
 
 MKDIV.appendChild(document.createTextNode("\u00a0 or go to windows media player's download page \u00a0"));
 
 var lWMP=document.createElement('a');

 lWMP.setAttribute('href','http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/AllDownloads.aspx' );

 lWMP.appendChild( document.createTextNode( 'WMP' ) );

 MKDIV.appendChild(lWMP);
 
 window.setTimeout("stopdiv();", 12000)

}
 
function stopdiv ( )

{

document.body.removeChild(document.getElementById('pluginsite'))
 
}

/*end of no plugin and Iframes.*/
 
/*start os detection script that I got from someone else*/
 
// create a multidimensional associative array to store our plugin names and datatypes
 
$plugin_type = {    

'SVG Viewer': {        

'ieAndWin': 'Adobe.SVGCtl',        

'nsOrMac': 'image/svg-xml'    },    
 
'Shockwave Director': {        

'ieAndWin': 'SWCtl.SWCtl.1',        

'nsOrMac': 'application/x-director'    },    
 
'Flash': {        

'ieAndWin': 'ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.1',        

'nsOrMac': 'application/x-shockwave-flash'    },    
 
'RealPlayer': {        

'ieAndWin': 'rmocx.RealPlayer G2 Control.1',        

'nsOrMac': 'audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin'    },    
 
'QuickTime': {        

'ieAndWin': 'QuickTimeCheckObject.QuickTimeCheck.1',        

'nsOrMac': 'video/quicktime'    },    
 
'Windows Media Player': {        

'ieAndWin': 'MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1',        

'nsOrMac': 'application/x-mplayer2'    },    
 
'Acrobat Reader': {        

'ieAndWin': 'PDF.PdfCtrl.5',        

'nsOrMac': 'application/pdf'    }}; function detectPlugin( $inPluginName ){    

var agt = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();    

var ie  = ( agt.indexOf('msie') != -1 );    

var ns  = ( navigator.appName.indexOf('Netscape') != -1 );    

var win = ( ( agt.indexOf('win') != -1 ) || ( agt.indexOf('32bit') != -1 ) );    

var mac = ( agt.indexOf('mac') != -1 );     
 
$pluginEnabled = false;     
 
if( $inPluginName != 'Java' )    {       
 
      if( ie && win )        

      {            $pluginEnabled = detectIE( $plugin_type[$inPluginName]['ieAndWin'] );        }         
 
      if( ns || !win )        {            nse = '';            
 
             for( var i = 0; i < navigator.mimeTypes.length; i++ )            

             {                nse += navigator.mimeTypes[i].type.toLowerCase();            }             $pluginEnabled = detectNS( $plugin_type[$inPluginName]['nsOrMac'] );        }    }    
 
      else    {        $pluginEnabled = navigator.javaEnabled() ? true : false;    }    
 
       return $pluginEnabled ;}  
 
       function detectNS( ClassID ){    n = '';    

       if( nse.indexOf( ClassID ) != -1 )    {        
 
       if( navigator.mimeTypes[ClassID].enabledPlugin != null )        {   return true;  }        
 
       else        {     return false;   }    }} 
 
       function detectIE( ClassID ){    result = false;     

       // this line needs to be broken to prevent errors in internet explorer, hence the strangeness in the middle of</SC' + 'RIPT>    

document.write( '<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=VBScript>\n on error resume next \n result = IsObject( CreateObject("' + ClassID + '") )</SC' + 'RIPT>' );    

 if( result )    {        return true;    }    
 
 else    {        return false;    }} 

 // ==========================================================

//  this portion determines what to do

// ==========================================================

 if( detectPlugin( 'QuickTime' ) == true ){QUIFrame()}
 
 else if( detectPlugin( 'Windows Media Player' ) == true ){WMPFrame()}
 
 else{read()}
 
/*end of detection script*/
 
window.onload = function() {  var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');  for (var i = 0; i < links.length; i++) {    if (links[i].className == 'movieloader') { /*find links with class="movieloader"      */

 links[i].onclick = function(e) { /* attach function to each */       

 if (window.event) window.event.returnValue = false;        else e.preventDefault();  /*stop browser from going to link href */       

var mP = document.getElementById('misterioProgram');        mP.style.display = 'block';  if( detectPlugin( 'QuickTime' ) == true ){frames['timeframe'].document.getElementById('misterioProgram').getElementsByTagName('embed')[0].src = this.href;        
 
 frames['timeframe'].document.getElementById('misterioProgram').getElementsByTagName('param')[0].value = this.href; }

 else if( detectPlugin( 'Windows Media Player' ) == true ){frames['playerframe'].document.getElementById('misterioProgram').getElementsByTagName('embed')[0].src = this.href;        
 
frames['playerframe'].document.getElementById('misterioProgram').getElementsByTagName('param')[0].value = this.href;   }     }    }  }}
 
 </script>
 
<style type="text/css">

<!--

#misterioProgram {

    background-color: #666666;

    display: none;

    position: absolute;

    z-index: 4;

    height: 400px;

    width: 400px;

    left: 200px;

    top: 200px;

}

-->

</style>

</head>
 
<body>
 
<a class="movieloader" href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/20/398972/lupe%20fiasco%20-%20kick%20push.mp3">clickhere </a>
 
<div id="misterioProgram">
 
<h1 id="vidh">the video page</h1> 

<p id="vidp">it will take some time to load</p>

<div id="MTVplayer">
 
</div>
 
<!--the big div-->

<div id="ChooseSeason" align="left" > 

<!--the div of the navi-->

   <div id="Mtt1" class="theSeasons">

      <!--the div for teen titans season one Mtt one-->    

      <ul> 

         <li> Teen Titans Season 3   </li>   
 
                <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/11/20/398972/Seal%20-%20Kiss%20From%20A%20Rose.mp3" onclick="misterio(); return false;">

the end part one</a>
 
      </ul>
 
    </div>

                   <!--end of the teen titans div-->

  </div>

                   <!--end of nav div-->
 
</div>
 
</body>

</html>

QT frame
[HTML]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
WMP Iframe

<OBJECT classid='clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B' width='320' height='240' codebase='http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab'>
<param name='src' value=''>
<param name='autoplay' value='true'>
<param name='controller' value='true'>
<param name='loop' value='false'>
<EMBED src='' width='320' height='240' autoplay='true'
controller='true' loop='false' bgcolor='#000000' pluginspage='http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/'>
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

</body>
</html>
[/HTML]

quictime frame
[HTML]<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>
Windows media player page. will be an Iframe.

<OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="320" height="240"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/ mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='this will take some time<img src='misterioloder'' type='application/x-oleobject'>
<param name='fileName' value="">
<param name='animationatStart' value='1'>
<param name='transparentatStart' value='1'>
<param name='autoStart' value='1'>
<param name='ShowControls' value='1'>
<param name='ShowStatusBar' value='0'>
<param name='loop' value='0'>
<EMBED type='application/x-mplayer2'
pluginspage='http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/ en/download/'
id='mediaPlayer2' name='mediaPlayer' displaysize='4' autosize='0'
bgcolor='darkblue' showcontrols='true' showtracker='true'
showdisplay='0' showstatusbar='0' videoborder3d='0' width="320" height="240"
src='' autostart='1' designtimesp='5311' loop='0'>
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>

</body>
</html>
[/HTML]

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...please help I've ran out of ideas.

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