Parsing error(?) or a WordPress bug?

Hi Folks

I’ve been playing with a test WordPress site for about a week now. It’s a plain vanilla 2.0.1 installation and no extras of any sort have been installed yet. One problem remains – making an embeded QuickTime movie display properly. I have avoided using the “rich editor” since I know it eats HTML code like this. I have used the google tip to search both Codex and the Support pages, but came up with nothing quite like my problem.

I have read Apple’s “HTML Scripting Guide for QuickTime” and am pretty confident that my HTML is correct. A previous Joomla test site works to my satisfaction. Transplanting the exact same QuickTime code block into WordPress also works fine – in that I can edit the code, save the changes and then subsequently review the code and the code is as I originally entered it. However, when I view the actual blog page, the HTML that WordPress supplies to the browser is messed up.

The same Joomla QuickTime code block (with the exception of updated paths to a second copy of the poster and movie files) is here in WordPress and fails in different ways, depending on the browser you’re using. At best, the movie loads into a new blank page once you click the poster movie, but this is wrong – it should load into the same blog page (the target parameter controls this).

I have tried collapsing the entire p-object-embed-blah-embed-object-p block into a single line, with no spaces between the tags, but WordPress expands and messes it up again.

I have put both the before and after code blocks here in case this will help shed more light on the problem.

Is there something I’ve missed which will tell WordPress to respect a specific HTML block? Or, have I discovered a WordPress bug?

Apart from this problem, I really like the look of WordPress and would like to get started with it.