[SWFObject] Error in getting SWF Working Consistently

Geoff Stearns geoff at deconcept.com
Sun Apr 30 21:57:41 PDT 2006


ok, i'll run over to a couple guys at work tomorrow that run linux  
and see what happens.

thanks for the heads up.


On Apr 30, 2006, at 8:27 PM, Kirupa Chinnathambi wrote:

> Geoff - pretty much, for I was able to confirm with two other people.
> It isn't a major issue, for it could just be that the few of the
> numerous distros that I happened to test under happen to not work =)
> Just wanted to let you know.
>
> Cheers!
> Kirupa
>
> On 4/30/06, Geoff Stearns <geoff at deconcept.com> wrote:
>> so this is only happening on linux?
>>
>> On Apr 30, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Kirupa Chinnathambi wrote:
>>
>>> <--- taken from comment on Geoff's blog --->
>>>
>>> Hi Geoff!
>>> First of all, thanks for this great script. I even wrote an article
>>> describing how to easily integrate animations using your method
>>> (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm). Many users,
>>> though, have complained that animations that worked before no longer
>>> work when embedded using FlashObject (and now the latest SWFObject).
>>> For example, here is a test URL:
>>> http://www.kirupa.com/temp/flashobject/test3.htm
>>>
>>> The test animation (the solid black box) works in all flavors of IE
>>> and FF on Windows, but on FF on Linux, the animation does not  
>>> display.
>>> A similarly configured Flash 8 animation inserted using the default
>>> embed/param method does display the animation in Linux. I do not  
>>> think
>>> the issue is related to Javascript permissions, for currently on the
>>> home page, http://www.kirupa.com, the animations are inserted  
>>> using a
>>> non-SWFobject external JavaScript file. FF on Linux is able to  
>>> display
>>> that well.
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions? I really prefer your method because it
>>> loads an external .js file once as opposed to the other methods that
>>> require a .js load per animation displayed.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Kirupa =)
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