[SWFObject] IE6 not detecting Flash player

[Becky Kinney]

I'm not sure if this is related, but I know of two cases in which machines 
were refusing to install any new ActiveX due to security settings. For a 
while I was afraid that some IE update was doing this to people's machines 
without even warning them, but then I learned that it was really just a 
recommendation. The symptom in this case had nothing to do with swfObject. 
We had a test machine with an older version of the plugin, and when we hit a 
page requiring Flash 7, and went to adobe to do the install, it failed 
silently. Updating IE solved the problem, and on the other machine, turning 
down security long enough to do the install solved the problem.

Becky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Chasin" <rchasin at designrac.com>
To: <swfobject at lists.deconcept.com>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] IE6 not detecting Flash player


Well, I uninstalled/reinstalled the flash player, and voila, it now
works in both IE6 and Firefox2. Geoff, you are obviously correct on this
- most likely updating players corrupted IE's ability to see the player.
I saw a large number of posts in Adobe forums griping about troubles
with updating to player 9.

I suspect the corporation I mentioned has updated but not
uninstalled/reinstalled the player, so this is out of my control.

Thank you all for pointing me in the direction to resolve this issue.

Geoff Stearns wrote:
> you can have them visit this page to see what version of flash player
> they have:
> http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/flashversion.html
>
> and if they have flash 8 or higher, they can view the swf on this page:
>
> http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject.html
>
>
>
> On Nov 10, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Rick Chasin wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Geoff,
>>
>> Yes, it is experienced by everyone who tries the site using IE6.
>> Can you
>> please provide the link to your test pages?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Geoff Stearns wrote:
>>
>>> everyone has issues? or just one computer?
>>>
>>> have you tried visiting my test pages to see if the swfs show up
>>> there?
>>>
>>> if it doesn't show up there, you probably need to update or reinstall
>>> your flash player.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Nov 10, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Rick Chasin wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have set up several web sites using SWFObject, and they all act
>>>> similarly:
>>>>
>>>>     * No problems in Firefox,; everything works as it should.
>>>>     * However, in IE6, users get the alternate content screen
>>>> even if
>>>>       the required Flash player is installed. If they click to
>>>> enter the
>>>>       program using the alternate click-through link it plays
>>>> normally.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what is the solution.
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks in advance.
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