Comments on: SWFObject 1.5 released

By: Mr-Yellow

Mr-Yellow — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:59:43 +0000

This version posted above fixes the IE issue

-Ben

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:57:40 +0000

Hi, SWFObject doesn’t work with the latest version of IE7. Although it’s good because it forces me to use Firefox more regularly, it’s a real problem because my clients are facing the same issues and they aren’t willing to change browser. Is there a planned fix for this? Otherwise it’s going to be a case of jumping ship and having to replace every instance of SWFObject I’ve used for the past 3 years for something that does work with IE7, which would be a huge shame because I like the product.

By: Mr-Yellow

Mr-Yellow — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:03:48 +0000

Confirmed new IE patch breaks SWFObject.

Maybe best to use a MS documented detection method. These usually maintain forwards compatibility, and although SWFObject is in massive use MS has no responsibility to remain compatible with your code.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537509(VS.85).aspx

-Ben

By: wheels

wheels — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:30:38 +0000

Above is url

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:40:07 +0000

Looks like Microsoft and IE did it again. Last night’s (2/12/08) windows update killed every Flash version detection algorithm working for IE including SWFObject.

By: Stefan Seiterle

Stefan Seiterle — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:26:01 +0000

@Joel
It would be really cool if you could post the entire file…

Thanks a lot!!
Stefan

By: Phillip

Phillip — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:31:49 +0000

I’m still getting an n has no properties error when trying to use this. I see this was a bug in 1.4.3 and fixed in 1.4.4. Did you reintroduce it?

By: Joel Flint

Joel Flint — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:19:53 +0000

Hey guys,

I read a few posts above about the SWFObject now working for Flash Player 9. This happened to me this morning and I couldn’t find a fix anywhere so I dug through the .js file and fixed the problem. Currently when trying to detect the flash plug-in it is using “ShowckwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7″, this works for 8 but not for 9. You have to wrap that entire try/catch with this try/catch:

try{var axo=new ActiveXObject(“ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9″);}catch(e){
// existing try/catch here
}

This goes in the “deconcept.SWFObjectUtil.getPlayerVersion” method. I can post the entire file if it’s cool with the original developer. I’m sure they’re already working on this fix, but to get people by you can use this.

By: Az

Az — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:23:32 +0000

I added SWFObject but it has disabled my pop-up window actions and nothing happens when clicked on button on all browsers.. Pop-up worked before adding SWFObject any ideas? any help will be appreciated.

By: Chloromycetin

Chloromycetin — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:40:54 +0000

Is there a way to set limits on the rescale size? While keeping the swf proportional? I need a solution for this

By: Postman

Postman — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:48:51 +0000

FW: It seems the alternative content gets loaded even when the user has the right Flash version. This is slightly annoying when your alternative content is a 60 KB+ JPEG file…. Any alternative?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:45:11 +0000

Is there a way to set limits on the rescale size? While keeping the swf proportional? I need a solution for this …

By: Türkü Dinle

Türkü Dinle — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:03:10 +0000

thanks man

By: Faith

Faith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:20:10 +0000

I would like to see a script solution for this Flash 9.0.115.0 bug also. Thanks in advance!

By: site ekle

site ekle — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:16:07 +0000

good thanks

By: Gidon

Gidon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:26:02 +0000

Hello all, I’m having the same problem as everyone, Flash Player version 9.0.115.0 automatically upgraded on IE 7 – and sent all our flash object flash sites to the alternative content!!
All the solutions I’ve heard of , are uninstalling the player through a file from ADOBE and reinstall the player once again. That is OK, and it works (for us – web developers!). But can we send all clients to uninstall and reinstall the flash player? This is not an accepted solution!! Is there something we can do through the SWFOBJECT that I find to be the most appropriate solution around??
Gidon
Koomkoom Multimedia
http://www.koomkoom.com

By: KMD

KMD — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:31:51 +0000

I checked out the Flash upgrade on different PCs: With Vista the detection of the new player is o.k. even if it’s slower than before (I can see the alternate content before it starts the Flash). On a notebook with XP-Home the new version works also. My XP-Pro-PC where the detection failed has also the Adobe CS3 package installed (some guys think this might be a reason). Finally I could solve the problem by uninstalling the Flash Player and a new install. Unfortunately this is not a method that can be recommended for every website visitor. So I would still be glad if somebody could find out what’s wrong with the detection of Flash Player 9.0.105.0

By: KMD

KMD — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:54:02 +0000

I’ve got the same problem: My Flash Player upgraded automatically to 9.0.115.0 this morning and since then the Flash detection with SWFObject failes on IE7 (WinXP). Reinstalling the Flash Player did not change anything. All Flash pages are dead.

By: netdragon

netdragon — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:43:15 +0000

You should probably modify your script to accept wmode as a parameter or to set it to opaque by default. There’s a bug in Flash plugin 9.0.115.0 that causes Firefox 2 to block popups when a user clicks on a button and the on(release) or .onRelease handler launches a new window if wmode is set to window (which is the default). A major fortune 500 client of ours using your script was affected by this Flash bug and we are helping them modify it to get around this Flash plugin bug.

By: MASS

MASS — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:49:42 +0000

Problem fixed :) I guess it was a bad installation. I have uninstalled and reinstalled flash plugin (TWICE) and it works now.