Comments on: Today is ActiveX Black Tuesday

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:29:03 +0000

FlashVars works fine with IE when you are using SWFObject. Almost all of my examples use it.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 20:27:32 +0000

this occurs under the SWFObjects code implementation as
I am trying to get round the “click here to activate
and use this control” issue introduced by the latest IE
update, but it seems to only happpen under IE, I have
tried many variations with different results but still
IE behaves in a totally strange way, firstly loading the
content, then making it disappear on refresh, I will post
this thread under the SWFObject mailing list as suggested
hoping someone somewhere has a valid answer.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:02:24 +0000

Is this a SWFObject specific issue? Or does it happen when you use a normal object/embed method as well?

This would be a good subject to bring up on the SWFObject mailing list.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:57:47 +0000

Hi – I have a question regarding what I consider an excellent piece of code,
my issue is with passing variables using FlashVars all is OK in Firefox however
the problem arives in IE, its fine when i first load my page, i can see things fine
until I refresh then the object i am calling to display in the movie disappears,
the swf is still there but no content, when i remove the call for the content the
movie appears. Very odd, also works fine in safari, is IE blocking the call for the
content?

By: tony

tony — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:52:30 +0000

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By: Marcello

Marcello — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:06:13 +0000

Hi, i’ve been fiddling with FlashObject for a couple of days, it works perfectly with IE6 (both patched and unpatched) but it looks like i’m unable to have it working with IE7, the flash simply doesn’t show up, and the browser doesn’t give any kind of error message.

Any idea?
Thanks!
Marcello

By: alec

alec — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:57:08 +0000

Hi- we deployed your Eolas workaround, and it works fine, except that a small % of users (probably < 1%)say that they see the alternative content, not flash. They claim to be on XP using IE6. Have you encountered this problem?

Another, unrelated question:
What is a disadvantage of using the embed tag without object ? It seems that all contemporary browsers implement embed.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:16:55 +0000

It should work fine, but you’ll have to add in all the extra captivate vars that are passed in via FlashVars.

By: Sam Creel

Sam Creel — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:08:18 +0000

I am trying to launch swf movies created with captivate.
I can not get the movie to launch using your object. Is there any problems with
swf movies created with captivate?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:51:51 +0000

Gabe: there’s a known issue with the updated – in your IE options, you need to have “Disable script debugging” checked.

This is mentioned in my older post about the Eolas stuff.

By: gabe

gabe — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 19:39:00 +0000

It appears as though FlashObject is not getting around the ActiveContent issue. Neither is a straight document.write of the tags. Anyone else seeing this?

By: /// CityOfRain ///

/// CityOfRain /// — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:11:53 +0000

One upgrade to pass up
Do you have the infamous box thing around your embedded Flash stuff?
Microsoft often puts out patches. It’s a fact of life. However, it’s not often that a patch intentionally makes your life worse. There’s one update that you do no…

By: Mat

Mat — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:10:15 +0000

If you shrug, you obviously aren’t a usability person…

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:01:35 +0000

i’ve already had this (before the 11th) and it’s not a big deal, you just have to click once on it. *shrug