MySpace Archive

MySpace layouts are a pain


It seems that my new div-based pet codes are sometimes not showing up on some people’s layouts. Why not?
Due to MySpace’s generally crappy HTML, any CSS layouts have to use stupid selectors like table table table td.text table table div { whatever }. Insanity! See this great post for more insight on MySpace layout nuttiness.
Anyway, [...]

New MySpace embed rewriting “breaks” Flash preloaders


I did a very quick test, and it does appear that the way MySpace uses the <object> tag prevents Flash preloaders from appearing as expected in Internet Explorer (tested versions 6 and 7 for Windows). This is the issue that the Flash Satay article reports on. I will attempt to explain it below, as well, [...]

MySpace changes their Flash/embed filtering again


Mashable reports on MySpace’s new <embed> tag changes. It looked like MySpace was disabling all embed tags, but it seems that they were rolling out this big change. It’s explained better in Chris Bennet’s comment to that post, which I reproduce below (I hope he doesn’t mind):

14. Chris Bennett - January 18, 2007
Before:
MySpace required embed [...]