Anyone have huge headaches cause of IE update and Flash?

So i just deployed my new website design yesterday...

www.briandoakes.com

Thankfully I don't use flash that much... only for the home page photo splash.

So i deployed it yesterday everything was great and then today (after I updated microsoft) I kept getting that stupid tooltip to "Click Enter or Spacebar to activate" thing....

At first I thought the problem was on my end... till I saw that it worked find in FireFox.

Thankfully I was able to find the solution for it..
http://www.pixelmill.com/(dc3i91rvf1...cleID=kb101593

and fixed it rather quickly. But I only had one file to fix....

I am curious how this affected some of you more Flash Intensive designers and having to fix your sites? or did you just say skip it, and not bother recoding each page?

I have had to change all my flash sites, big pain in the a$$ !!

I use the Flash Object

I tried using the Flash Object..

To be honest with you, I found it more complicating than the other method..

Maybe I just didnt do it right.

As long as it works :)

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Originally Posted by estudioworks

As long as it works :)

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Yeah...

I was able to get the flash file working... but I use a JavaScript drop down menu on my site: www.briandoakes.com and when i used Flash Objects the drop downs get hidden behind the flash...

I couldnt figure out how to fix this.

So this other method solved that problem ?

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Originally Posted by estudioworks

So this other method solved that problem ?

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yeah... but I realized why I had a problem with Flash Objects and my drop downs..

I forgot to set wmode=transparent to allow the drops downs to show..

once I did that Flash Object worked great.

I prefered Flash Object to the previous method... because from a SEO standpoint having any <NOSCRIPT> is usally not good, and it looks like Flash Object will allow me to create content that will appear for users who dont have Flash installed.

thanks!

Yeah but the wmode=transparent doesn't work in all browsers :(

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Originally Posted by estudioworks

Yeah but the wmode=transparent doesn't work in all browsers :(

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word...

I tested it in latest versions of IE, FireFox, Netscape and Opera.... all seem to work.

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Originally Posted by GraphicArtist88

I tried using the Flash Object..

To be honest with you, I found it more complicating than the other method..

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that's funny, the article you linked to says this now:

"Update 3/23/06 An easier solution is to use the FlashObject embed script to embed your Flash movie into your web site. We have a tutorial that explains that here: Flash Detection Using FlashObject While you can still follow the instructions below, we recommend the FlashObject embed script because it's easy to use and it includes Flash detection as well."

:)

Can someone help me out with this, the pixelmill info tells me i need to embed a .js file but i can't seem to find that ... sorry i'm late into this but just come across this.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by deconcept

that's funny, the article you linked to says this now:

"Update 3/23/06 An easier solution is to use the FlashObject embed script to embed your Flash movie into your web site. We have a tutorial that explains that here: Flash Detection Using FlashObject While you can still follow the instructions below, we recommend the FlashObject embed script because it's easy to use and it includes Flash detection as well."

:)

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LOL, yeah...

In a rush to get my site working, I didnt even see the BIG BOLD RED letters that said there was a update with a easier fix.

So originally I did the longer more complicated one and it worked..

then when i tried to go back and do the easier one, I ran into a problem, because I was missing something in the code... once I realized the mistake, I fixed it and switched over to the easier Flash Object one.