[fixed] SWFobject 2 + Mootools craches IE6

[louisk]

i found a (kind of) major bug... but it isn't any ones bad.
CMSMS adds the <base> tag at the top of the every page. But when you have flash on your page using the new SWFobject 2 in combination with the MooTools 1.2 java script framework, Internet Explorer craches completely
This error presumably will also occur with older versions of SWFobject and/or MooTools and other combinations of java scripts.

The fix is to add a small pies of code that closes the base tag (</base>) only in Internet Explorer.

Open the file plugins/function.metadata.php and go to line 44 where it says $result .= "\n<base href=\"".$config['root_url']."/\" />\n";

Just add replace it with this line: $result .= "\n<base href=\"".$config['root_url']."/\" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->\n";

And the problem is fixed.

I suggest adding this change to the distributed file just in case people run into this problem (as it's pretty hard to find anything on the net about this problem)

[soundZ]

Hello louisk,

thanks a lot for that hint! Your workaround works realy fine, but I think it's not valid in the end 
A clean and valid version without conditional comments would be the following:

line 44 in plugins/function.metadata.php:

Code:

$result .= "\n<base href=\"".$config['root_url']."/\"></base>\n";

It's a little bit unusal notation in XHTML for empty Tags, but it's OK and valid. And the truly astonishing fact about this solution is: you save 27 bytes in your code!