There are a number of solutions out there for the limitation that Microsoft just put into place to deal with the Microsoft-Eolas plug-in patent dispute. The ones that I have seen (e.g: Flashobject) are nice but involve changing how you publish your Flash files and embed them into the HTML. I was thinking, it is possible to rewrite the HTML on the fly with JavaScript, so what if we just loop through all the Object tags within the Document Object Model, and replace the HTML? It could be done with one function call, and would not affect how you put the <object> and <embed> tags on the page.

The experiment that I tried does exactly that: it loops through all the <object> tags, and just replaces the HTML with exactly the same HTML. This makes IE think that the HTML is dynamically placed on the page, even though it started as just straight HTML.
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