[SWFObject] SWFObjets in Windows/IE and streaming flash player

[Geoff Stearns]

As a matter of fact, I have. (it's like deja vu all over again!)

Last night we found a bug that does just this.

The issue occurs when you are using streaming media and IE (it  
doesn't happen in any other browsers) and it only happens if you  
include an 'id' attribute on your object tag.

Once you take the id out, it will work fine and the player will  
disable just fine.

The big drawback to this is that you can't use external interface to  
send data from js to flash without the id on the object tag (i tried  
everything else, using a name, using getElementsByTagName("OBJECT") 
[0] - i tried it all, and nothing worked until i put the id back on.

So if you want a quick fix, and you aren't using externalinterface,  
you can just modify the swfobject script so that it omits the id  
attribute when it writes the object tag (look at line 69 in the  
compressed version of swfobject.js)

and remove this part: id=\""+this.getAttribute("id")+"\"

If you are using externalinterface, you are in for a rough time. we  
got it working, but it was a really complicated hack that required a  
lot of reworking of things.

Adobe is aware of this issue as of last night, and we're hoping to  
put together a test case to show them the issue.

If you want to be awesome, you could set up a test case for them -  
just use a normal object/embed tag setup, no swfobject or anything  
else, and put an id on one of the pages, and leave the id off the  
other page and see what happens.



On May 1, 2006, at 3:16 PM, Gene Dymarskiy wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new user of this JS library. It works with most flash toys we  
> use however there is one exception - when the script is used in  
> windows/IE to embed flash player streaming content from Flash Media  
> Server 2. The movie loads fine however, when users leaves the page,  
> the audio does not stop streaming.
>
> You can observe this behavior at  http://partners.ibctv.com/ 
> streaming-flash-final/test_js.html
>
> Note that this does not happen in FireFox. Also, the same player  
> unloads properly when using in-line flash object embedding ( http:// 
> partners.ibctv.com/streaming-flash-final/test.html ),  though we  
> get activation warnings due to recent Microsoft "fixes" .  We have  
> a different player that is using progressive download instead of  
> streaming which works fine.
>
> Have you come across similar issues?
>
> Thank you
>
> gd
>
>
>
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