My response interposed below:

-----Original Message-----
From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:svg-developers@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Domenico Strazzullo
Sent: 04 July 2009 12:59

> ... The script cannot work because it tries to remove children from
obs while working with its length, which is live for
getElementsByTagName. <

The script did work, because if you look closely you will see that the
array index is not incremented after the object elements in the
DOMNodeList are removed. Another, perhaps tidier technique is to start
at the end of the DOMNodeList and work backwards.

> ... for (var a in embedElements) { <

Caution when doing this: if you're using jQuery or similar framework,
you'll find functions added to the array prototype and the loop variable
will pick them up too.

> Note also that you don't need to remove the children of ob for two
reasons: a) they get removed when they get appended somewhere else, and
b) they get removed anyway when removing the parent. So it's good to
avoid those unnecessary complications :)<

A useful point, thanks for that.

> BTW, <object> "finally" seems to work with IE8. <

The problem I reported earlier, of pages with larger numbers of SVG
object elements, and a browser with no SVG plugin, randomly failing to
load one or two of the contained .png images, has been observed with
IE8. When this happens, the images also seem to load very slowly.

I am working to provide Bradley Neuberg with a usable example - I just
have to do a bit of anonymizing...

Regards to all,

Christopher S.