[SWFObject] loading Vars in the source tag.

[Jonathan Walker]

Hi Geoff

i am doing what you are suggesting by passing in Flashvars that have  
been happily working until the IE black tuesday
scenario, i then found your excellent work around however when i view  
a  movie now in IE where parameters are passed in
i get the content displaying until I refresh the page then it  
disappears, everything works beautifully in Firefox and Safari its just
IE that has the problem but only when you refresh the page or go back  
in a certain period of time.

Any ideas how i can fix this or anyone else had this issue.

Jonathan Walker


On 26 Apr 2006, at 03:55, Geoff Stearns wrote:

> yes, you can do it that way if you like, but i recommend doing it
> using the addVariable.
>
> addVariable uses FlashVars, which means it won't affect the caching
> of your swf, and there is no restriction on the length of vars you
> can pass into the swf (or at least it makes the limit *much* higher
> than the browser limit.
>
> if those vars change at all, every time they change, the browser will
> make a new request to your server, negating speed increase your users
> might get from caching of the swf file.
>
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 7:35 PM, dayvid jones wrote:
>
>> Hi Geoff, thanks so much for creating SWFObject, you've really help
>> out a lot of people.
>>
>> I have a question.  Using SWFObject, can I still load vars in the swf
>> string?
>>
>> So if I have a .swf string like this:
>> movie.swf?variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3
>>
>> Do I have to write it like this:
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>     var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7",
>> "#336699");
>>     so.addVariable("variable1", "value1");
>>     so.addVariable("variable2", "value2");
>>     so.addVariable("variable3", "value3");
>>     so.write("flashcontent");
>> </script>
>>
>>
>>
>> Or can I write it like this too:
>>
>> <script type="text/javascript">
>>     var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf?
>> variable1=value1&variable2=value2&variable3=value3", "mymovie",
>> "200", "100", "7", "#336699");
>>     so.write("flashcontent");
>> </script>
>>
>>
>> I've tried it the second way and it appears to be working, but I just
>> want to make sure.  I'm going to be replacing a lot of embed/object
>> tags in the next couple of weeks and I want to make sure I'm doing it
>> correctly.
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
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