[SWFObject] complete newb question...

[Geoff Stearns]

here's my response to this question to another message sent last week:

> it may work in some browsers, but it's not a very good idea...
>
> swfobject replaces the content in the target div, so in a sense, it
> would be replacing the script call that inserts itself.. so maybe if
> you had some code after the .write() call, that might not be executed.
>
> not to mention strange results if the page is loading slow - you
> would basically be trying to replace the html content of the div
> before the div is loaded, which is bad.


to sum up: it's a bad idea to put the script within the div you are  
replacing, so it should always be after.


On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Lisa Konrad wrote:

> Ah.. it is now working without moving that bit of script. I would  
> like to keep the script within the div as I tend to move things  
> about a lot and it makes it easier. What effect does enclosing the  
> script within the <div> tags have? Is it safer to move it out?
>
> thanks
>
> Lisa
>
> On 25 Nov 2006, at 17:36, Jim Berkey wrote:
>
>> Your end div for your circle div should end right after:
>>
>> Flash Player installed.</p></div>
>>
>> Then insert your script for the SWFObject
>>
>>
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>> On 11/25/2006 at 4:56 PM Lisa Konrad wrote:
>> oops Apologies
>>
>> http://www.arthouse.org/dragonindex.html
>>
>>
>> On 25 Nov 2006, at 16:49, Jim Berkey wrote:
>>
>>> Can you post a link to a problem page so we can see your code and  
>>> help you correct it?
>>> jimbo
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>>> On 11/25/2006 at 4:38 PM Lisa Konrad wrote:
>>> I am sure this is something really silly I have done.. but I have  
>>> gone through the whole thing time and again and think I am now  
>>> blind to the error!!!
>>>
>>> I recently read about swfobject when I was researching a better  
>>> way to display flash on my website and then got the dreamweaver  
>>> extension and read as much as I could about it.
>>>
>>> I made my page and everything worked fine in the latest versions  
>>> of Safari and Netscape on my mac, and even in IE 5.5 on my mac.  
>>> Not so good in opera as for some reason it seems not to support  
>>> transparency. Then I uploaded to my website to recheck and to see  
>>> them on a pc. And nothing.. no warnings to get flash .. nothing.  
>>> I then checked on my mac the uploaded pages and also nothing but  
>>> working fine in test on the actual machine.  I have checked that  
>>> the swfobject.js is uploaded  and tried it with both the full  
>>> address and short address (cos i thought that was the obvious  
>>> answer) but .. nothing. I am obviously doing something really  
>>> stupid and simple wrong...
>>>
>>> I am currently updating the whole of my site and would love to  
>>> use swfobject throughout, am not familiar with js or any  
>>> programming language really, I am a cut and paste and change  
>>> where it looks obvious type person, so any help would be  
>>> gratefully received!
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> lisa
>>>
>>>
>>> Lisa Konrad
>>> http://www.arthouse.org
>>> animations, paintings and flash
>>>
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