[SWFObject] detection script issue with Flash 9.0.16 and IE 6.0.2900

[Geoff Stearns]

it's not preventable with code...

what happens is that the Flash Player install gets 'corrupted'  
somehow... not sure what the exact cause is... I think installing IE7  
might have something to do with it - if you install IE7 but don't  
reinstall the Flash player might be a cause, but I've also heard of  
it working fine, so there must be a specific case for it.

anyway, when the install is corrupted.. the ocx file is there in the  
browser, and the browser can load it, but the system registry doesn't  
know it's there (or something like that). The way SWFObject works, is  
it tries to create a new activex control and then does a GetVariable 
("$version"); call on it to get the Flash version.. But i guess if  
the install is corrupt, the activex instantiation fails, and  
SWFObject thinks there is no player installed at all.

but the crappy part is that if you use an object tag to embed a swf,  
the browser knows how to located it that way...

Another crappy thing is that reinstalling the player over the top of  
an already 'corrupted' install won't fix it.. you have to  
specifically uninstall it first, then reinstall it. Maybe Adobe can  
change this so a reinstall would fix it, but I don't know if that's  
even possible.



On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Tom Livingston wrote:

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>
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> On 11/10/06 4:17 PM, "Geoff Stearns" <geoff at deconcept.com> wrote:
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>> How frequently has it been happening?
>
> Although details are sketchy, I just had an instance of a client  
> hitting a
> page and saw nothing. Our account exec. here had them dl and  
> install the
> plugin again to no avail. I assume this didn’t work because it wasn’t
> _uninstalled_ first. I was doing nothing fancy on the page, I  
> assure you.
> Needless to say it was a little embarrassing - though it worked  
> fine for all
> here where I work.
>
> Some way to avoid this would be super. Obviously.
>
>
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