flash, javascript and IE

hi - i have javascript talking with Flash. Works great in Firefox (as is always the case), but IE (all versions) has issues. Essentially i get a warning at the line of code that innerHTML starts (after the appendChild)- i had read i needed to append the child before writring innerHTML , but that still is not the trick.

Can you take a look, and tell me what i need to tell IE? I am thinking it has to do with ActiveXObject???

Code:

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function playVid(src){
        var pb=document.getElementById("player");
        var pl=document.getElementById("FLVPlayer");
        if(pl){
                pb.removeChild(pl);       
        }
        var src=src;
        var em=document.createElement("object");
        em.classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000";
        em.setAttribute("codebase","http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0");
        em.setAttribute("width","640");
        em.setAttribute("height","490");
        em.id="FLVPlayer"
        pb.appendChild(em);
        em.innerHTML="<param value=\"myPlayer.swf?contnt="+src+"\" name=\"movie\" /><param  value=\"sameDomain\" name=\"allowScriptAccess\"/>";
        em.innerHTML+= "<param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\" /><param  value=\"noscale\" name=\"scale\"/>";
        em.innerHTML+="<embed  src=\"myPlayer.swf?contnt="+src+"\" quality=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer\" />";
}

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have a look at SWFObject. It does what you want to do, and a lot more.

yes that is interesting. i am choosing to go my own direction on this...no prewritten scripts. So far i am learning that the big hang up was the innerHTML call. So i have rewrtitten to the below. Now, i have no warnings in IE, but instead, after i click, IEseems to perform the javascript fine, but then will not play the flash movie....any more thoughts. i am sure this is an activeX issue

Code:

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function playVid(src){
        var pb=document.getElementById("player");
        var pl=document.getElementById("FLVPlayer");
        if(pl){
                pb.removeChild(pl);       
        }
        var src=src;
        var em=document.createElement("object");
        em.setAttribute("classid","clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000");
        em.setAttribute("codebase","http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0");
        em.setAttribute("width","640");
        em.setAttribute("height","490");
        em.id="FLVPlayer"
        var pr=document.createElement("param");
        pr.setAttribute("name","movie");
        pr.setAttribute("value","myPlayer.swf?contnt="+src);
        em.appendChild(pr);
        var pr2=document.createElement("param");
        pr2.setAttribute("name","quality");
        pr2.setAttribute("value","high");
        em.appendChild(pr2);
        var pr3=document.createElement("param");
        pr3.setAttribute("name","allowScriptAccess");
        pr3.setAttribute("value","sameDomain");
        em.appendChild(pr3);
        if(!window.ActiveXObject){
                var embed=document.createElement("embed");
                embed.setAttribute("src","myPlayer.swf?contnt="+src);
                embed.setAttribute("qality","high");
                embed.setAttribute("width","640");
                embed.setAttribute("height","490");
                embed.setAttribute("type","application/x-shockwave-flash");
                em.appendChild(embed);
        }
        pb.appendChild(em);
}

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