Javascript warning message

[finchita]

Greetings,

I'm launching videos from a streaming server into an inline frame, and they play just fine. However, I am getting an irksome error message.

I've put the page here temporarily:

http://finchnest.org/give/videos.html

The error I get in Mozilla (not IE or Safari) are:

Deprecated method document.getSelection() called. Please use window.getSelection() instead.

The only place document.get appears is in the swfobject.js file. This is the source code for the script:

http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject_source.js

I have no clue what the warning means.

I'm on a tight deadline, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[CloudedVision]

i think the answer is pretty obvious: replace document.getSelection with window.getSelection. Try it and see if it works. (Make sure it also works with IE though)

Just a tip: Whenever you encounter a javascript error google it. You'll often get a forum post just like this one on how to fix it.

[saltedm8]

it should be as simple as cloudedvision says, but i do also know that it is only a firefox bug for 'older' code ( pre - 1.5.0.11 )

it will not affect any other browser

( i know nothing about javascript, but i did come across people asking about this error on forums a couple of times )

[finchita]

Alas, would that it were so simple. I now get a more severe error message when I do that, in addition to the previous 'warning'.

Error: this.params has no properties
Source File: http://finchnest.org/give/videos/swfobject.js
Line: 59

The code is not document.getSelection, it is document.getElement, and other document. code. It doesn't have getSelection anywhere.

The video pages that are called into the inline frame work fine stand-alone.

I'm at a complete loss, please help!

[CloudedVision]

Line 59 (and surrounding code) is this:

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addParam: function(name, value){
		this.params[name] = value;
	},

It seems like the reason is this.params has not been set.

[finchita]

Thanks for trying to help, that error appeared only when I tried changing the code to window.get everywhere that document.get appeared. Unfortunately, I'm a designer, not a programmer. The code is straight from the JW FLV Media Player,

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player

and I have posted on their forum (and several others) to no avail.

The player works just fine, the video appears correctly and plays when clicking one of the thumbnails, it's just that buggy message that is spoiling my day. If you try one of the thumbnail page by itself it works fine with no message, i.e.:

http://finchnest.org/give/videos/JQpretest.html

There's something about the relationship to the iframe is what I have concluded.