[SWFObject] Error in getting SWF Working Consistently

[Brian McGill]

linux only supports flash player 7 at the moment. if you're trying to 
view a flash 8 movie in linux it will not run. this sounds like what you 
are experiencing.

adobe is supposed to be releasing a version 9 player for linux soon.

brian

Geoff Stearns wrote:
> 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 =)