Issue with Swf Header not displaying in Internet Explorer

[Jfrasier]

Hey everyone,

Just started having this issue with my header not working in IE. It displays correctly in all the other browsers, just stays white in IE and continually tries to load.

Here is the object code that is in my index.html:

/* <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="750" height="208" title="fsc_header">
<param name="movie" value="swf/header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="swf/header.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="750" height="208"></embed>
</object> */

Is this a new problem with IE or something? If so what is the workaround?

Thanks

[cancerinform]

I could imagine that putting your swf into folder may not be good. Generally I don't recommend that.

[Jfrasier]

Hey cancer, thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I don't think that is it. I did a little reading at the Microsoft site and it seems that it has something to do with the new IE ActiveX controls.

I am still working on it and hopefully I can get the issue resolved.

Thanks,

J Frasier

[cancerinform]

I have a mac at home and PC at work. I have basically dumped IE

[Jfrasier]

Yeah I despise it and use Opera for the most part. But when designing for web you cant really ignore it. It is still the most widely used browser.

[cancerinform]

May be this will help, seems to be a user problem:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=624850b5

[Jfrasier]

hmmmmm

Although that is interesting I am the only user and I am admin full out. No restricted access. I am wondering if maybe it is the embed tag? Do you use the embed tag to place flash into a page anymore? Are they using a different type of anchor?

I was checking my w3c validation and this keeps coming up so maybe it is really starting to cause some serious issues.

I have been noticing a few strange bugs though, like another Flash header I made works perfectly in IE, but only displays part of the movie in Opera ( ie: it shows the background image but not the text with an animated mask)

They are just making this to be too much of hassle. I hate working in the web. Why did I ever choose this as my career

[cancerinform]

All I do is publish. You can once show a url, where it does not work and I test at work.

[Jfrasier]

well I just uninstalled the Flash player and re-installed the new Adobe version and it is working with all browsers. My site is still having the issue of showing the Flash header in IE and it is at :

http://www.fscproductions.net

Now my website is driven by the Typo3 Content Management System, so I am thinking there might be an issue in there. Because the 2 other sites I am working on that are plain HTML the Flash is working through all browsers. I havent ever had this problem with it before, and the only time I have had an issue of a Flash coming up blank is when I created it in Mac and tried to view over a PC IE. Never when I made it in a PC enviroment and tried to view it in the same system.

So if you could just check out that link and see if the header Flash is all white or if it is showing it.

Thanks for all the help!!

JF

[cancerinform]

It does not show up in IE. It is strange. All my movies show up in IE made with flash 8. How did you make the publication tags by publish and then copy and paste into the movie?

[Jfrasier]

No I just export to Flash movie. I don't ever use the publish feature. Maybe I should lol.

[cancerinform]

Let us know if it works.

[sakie]

value="swf/fscproductions_header.swf" />
embed src="fileadmin/templates/swf/fscproductions_header.swf"

Value and embed source tags have different values in my opinion that is whats preventing the movie to load .Make them same and I am quite sure that it would work.
Let me know if it works