[SWFObject] [BUG?] Strange Caching issues

Geoff Stearns geoff at deconcept.com
Tue Aug 22 07:04:29 PDT 2006


can you put together a test page so other people can try to reproduce  
the issues?

if it really is a bug we should notify adobe and give them all the  
info they need to fix it.



On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Mike Mountain wrote:

> Aran
>
> No, but there's definetely a bug in the flash player with
> MovieClipLoader not firing off it's events on cached data in IE, if  
> it's
> content checking is set to Automatic or Never - which renders
> MovieClipLoader useless.
>
> No my issue is that on second load/page refresh the page doesn't  
> seem to
> initialise properly and all the Stage Dimensions are reported
> incorrectly...
>
> Like I say I fixed it by putting in a delay before the values get  
> used -
> but it feels a little "hacky" for my liking.
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
>> [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Aran Rhee
>> Sent: 22 August 2006 12:37
>> To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
>> Subject: Re: [SWFObject] [BUG?] Strange Caching issues
>>
>> Mike.
>>
>> I had some issues with IE and caching, but my issue was to do
>> with relative pathed content being loaded by the swf, not the
>> main swf itself. (e.g.
>> images loaded by the swf would load the 1st time, but not the second)
>>
>> If this is your problem too, then the issue seems to come
>> from a bug within the IE caching mechanism. When it trys to
>> load the images for the 2nd time (out of cache), for some
>> reason it looks for them on the html page's server loacation,
>> not the swf's server location. So if you had your html page
>> on some.com and your swf and images were being loaded from
>> other.com, even if the images came originally from other.com,
>> IE trys to load some.com/image.jpg NOT other.com/image.jpg.
>>
>> I got around it by specifying a full path to the images. Even
>> specifying the BASE param didn't fix it....Weird.
>>
>> Anyway, if this is not your issue sorry for rambling. I
>> thought I'd post this to the list anyhow, in case it saves
>> someone some time.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aran
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
>>> [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Mike
>>> Mountain
>>> Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2006 7:12 PM
>>> To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
>>> Subject: Re: [SWFObject] [BUG?] Strange Caching issues
>>>
>>> Hmmm, doesn't solve my problem though...
>>>
>>> M
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com
>>>> [mailto:swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Geoff
>>>> Stearns
>>>> Sent: 21 August 2006 20:22
>>>> To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [SWFObject] [BUG?] Strange Caching issues
>>>>
>>>> maybe you are trying to send it to a frame that hasn't loaded yet?
>>>>
>>>> are you waiting until the whole movie is loaded before
>>> telling it to
>>>> jump to that frame?
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