Speaking at Flash Forward Austin 2006

I’ll be giving a presentation at Flash Forward Austin this year on SWFObject. Here’s the session description from the Flash Forward website:

Embedding Flash® content and detecting Flash Player is one of the most overlooked parts of Flash development. In this session, Geoff Stearns will cover everything you need to know about Flash Player detection and embedding using SWFObject (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/), including best practices, accessiblity, Express Install, Flash/Javascript communication, and search engine optimization.

Also covered in this session will be information on the recent Eolas / Active content changes to Internet Explorer and how to embed your Flash content so your users won’t have to click your content first to ’activate’ it.

I may also try to dip into some of my thoughts on Flash and search engine optimization as well.

For those of you who caught the presentation I gave with Matthew at the last NYC Flash Forward, imagine that presentation, but with more technical information and less good looking slides ;).

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Cody 06/14/2006

So any plans yet on attending Ausin City Limits? (kidding) Thats great man, Flash Samuri on tour! Congrats!

John Lewis 06/15/2006

What about this solution:

(cribbed from http://amarasoftware.com/flash-problem.htm )

Just below the last

Peter 06/16/2006

Great plans on attending Austin City limits.

That’s great man. Congrats!

mcnaton 06/19/2006

hehe, nice!

Cherie 06/21/2006

Loving SWF object. Thanks for making it so easy to use.
Only thing is, doesn’t seem to work in Opera. Using version 8.5.1
Anyone else reported this?

Geoff 06/21/2006

Are you sure you have Flash Player installed? Try opening the flashversion.html page and see what it tells you.

Dmitry 06/21/2006

Perhaps Flash Player is installed. But sometimes OS do not understand what kind of files format should that player to use.
Try to show him the full path to the flash object. That may help.
Or just try to open it in the different browsers. And check the browsers settings. Perhaps playing flash objects is disallowed there.

Kevin 07/07/2006

You’re so cool Goeff! I added you to my Teachers list on my blog… LOL, For real.

russian 07/14/2006

how to fix flash9 & swfobject conflict?

Geoff 07/15/2006

SWFObject works fine with Flash Player 9.

Johannes 07/28/2006

“SWFObject works fine with Flash Player 9.”

I keep getting “Out of Memory” errors when using SWFOBject/IE. It seems to have something to do with the ExternalAPI and calling JavaScript functions from the SWF… The error only appears when “unloading” the page. With Flash8 it works fine!

Anyone else have experienced this?

Geoff 07/28/2006

The out of memory errors are actually a Flash Player 9 bug - you’ll get them even if you don’t use swfobject.

It seems that if you have more than 1 swf on the page, and at least one of them is using ExternalInterface, you’ll get the error when the page unloads (or you travel to a new page) - and it only happens in IE.

The next version of SWFObject will fix this by overriding the Adobe code in fp9, and will be out shortly. If you want the latest version now, you can get it out of the SWFObject SVN repository at svn.deconcept.com/swfobject/

Boris Savic 04/26/2007

I posted new about Flash Action Script on my web. If there is anything you don’t understand you can ask me
on my blog
, eventhough I won’t be here for 2 weeks, I’ll try to answer you as soon as possible.

ege 09/21/2007

Thanks

seks 11/04/2007

thank you very good team

erotik 11/05/2007

erotik

thnks….

hikaye 11/05/2007

nice ……..

John 11/21/2007

Thanks,
John
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Eva 11/21/2007

I recently had some similar problems an it turned out that my OS had somehow gotten corrupted. Once I re installed XP, all those strange errors disappeared.

Eva

Hikaye 01/09/2008

thanks

kiremit irmiği 01/17/2008

very good thanks kiremit tozu

Alanya 02/01/2008

Fast forward to around 24:00 to hear my part

Great 03/06/2008

Thanx for article

deconcept

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