embedSWF fails in Safari when no head tag is present

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use swfobject.embedSWF in a page without a head tag
2. View the page in Safari

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect the swf to be properly embedded, but nothing appears.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
This is version 2.1 of swfobject with Safari 3 on either Windows XP or Mac
OS X.

Please provide any additional information below.
Sometimes I want to use swfobject on pages that I don't have full control
over. Because not everyone is standards compliant, some pages around the
web don't even have head tags. This turns out not to be a problem for most
browsers, but in Safari it keeps swfobject from working. I've attached a
test page that offers a more technical explanation as well as a possible
solution.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by raven...@gmail.com on 19 Nov 2008 at 1:09

Attachments:

• swfobject_test2.html

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This issue has been submitted several times before. Valid HTML requires the head
element, so this is not a bug. But I understand this is not always in your 
hands, so
for a next version we will see if we can make things a bit more moron-proof.

Original comment by bobbyvandersluis on 19 Nov 2008 at 1:19

• Changed state: OnHold
• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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Original comment by bobbyvandersluis on 28 Nov 2008 at 11:09

• Changed state: FixedIn2.2Alpha5

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Included in the SWFObject 2.2 beta1 release

Original comment by bobbyvandersluis on 16 Apr 2009 at 3:05

• Changed state: Verified