<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">so just to clarify:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>you load a flash movie that has flashvars passed in</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>in IE, if you hit reload, the flashvars no longer show up inside the movie?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Can you go to my SWFObject test page and hit refresh and see if the vars don't show up anymore?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>this page:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject.html">http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject.html</A></DIV><DIV>has a string of text passed in - you can see it printed out saying "this is passed in via flashvars..."</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>hit reload on that page and see if the string still shows up.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:26 AM, Jonathan Walker wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Hi - I have a question regarding what I consider an excellent piece of code, I have an</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"> issue with passing variables using FlashVars, all is OK in Firefox, safari and the likes, however the problem arives in IE, its fine when i first load my page, i can see things fine until I do a refresh then the object i am calling to display in the movie disappears, the swf is still there but no content, when i remove the call for the content the movie appears. Very odd, is IE blocking the call for the </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">content?.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Before I implemented the change everything worked great, after the Microsoft update I was getting the "click here to activate and use this control" hence the need to look for alternate solutions and I found SWFObjects, which incidentally works great on basic content which I have on other sites, its the FlashVars thing that IE seems to have a problem with.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Thanks</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Jonathan </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>