I'm finishing up a site that uses SWFObject for lots of Flashtext, and one swf animation on the index page. I would like to emulate the animation as much as possible, and have tried using several JS slide show scripts to provide the alternate content.
The scripts I've tried all seem to generate IE script errors of one type or another. Some work, but I don't want visitors having to clear a script error message. Seems like bad form to me.
Has anyone found a simple JS slide show script that plays nicely with SWFObject??
i don't know of any slideshows that *don't* work on a page that uses SWFObject; SWFObject was written using object notation, so generally speaking it shouldn't have conflicts with other scripts.
as Aran indicated, you should check to see if the slideshow works without any SWFObject code on the page, and vice versa (that SWFObject works fine without any slideshow stuff on the page).
if they work fine independently but not together, i'd check to see if they're both targeting the same page element, such as <div id="flash">. perhaps they're both trying to manipulate the same item, which could result in some errors.
Thanks for the replies -- I've since updated to SWFObject 2 -- still doesn't work properly, but for now I'm just going with a statig image as the alternate content. I'll check for help in that forum when I try to get it working again. . .