<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi, thanks for the feedback on this</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But I still have problems and several of my contacts have the same problem namely the content of the swf disappears when you refresh the screen under</DIV><DIV>IE after the recent update.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So basically you say it works fine when you refresh the page, can you confirm therefore that the following links work, one is the old version before IE update where it asks for you</DIV><DIV>to activate the content</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>this link is the old version and requires activation;</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.mackinnonfineart.com/furniture/russian_bureau_old.html">http://www.mackinnonfineart.com/furniture/russian_bureau_old.html</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>and this one has the new code implimentation but now "fails" to load the FlashVars on IE;</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.mackinnonfineart.com/furniture/russian_bureau.html">http://www.mackinnonfineart.com/furniture/russian_bureau.html</A> </DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000EE"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV>I appreciate your assistance but just too many of my own contacts claim they cannot see the content once the page is refreshed.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jonathan Walker</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><DIV>On 26 Apr 2006, at 14:31, Greg Brant wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="614243013-26042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">works fine for me</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="614243013-26042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="614243013-26042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">IE 6.0.2900 XP pro sp2</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="614243013-26042006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">flash player 8</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <HR tabindex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com [<A href="mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com">mailto:swfobject-bounces@lists.deconcept.com</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jonathan Walker<BR><B>Sent:</B> 26 April 2006 14:21<BR><B>To:</B> <A href="mailto:swfobject@lists.deconcept.com">swfobject@lists.deconcept.com</A><BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SWFObject] SWFObjects handling of FlashVars for IE browser<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Hi Geoff</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>here is the url for the page</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.mackinnonfineart.com/furniture/russian_bureau.html">http://www.mackinnonfineart.com/furniture/russian_bureau.html</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>it works fine in firefox and safari so the variables are being passed ok, or seem to be, however when viewing in IE as i suggested the</DIV> <DIV>picture disappears after a refresh</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Hope I am not doing something bazaar</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Jonathan Walker</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On 25 Apr 2006, at 16:02, Geoff Stearns wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">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: 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: 0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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: 0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Jonathan </FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">_______________________________________________</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SWFObject mailing list</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">_______________________________________________</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">SWFObject mailing list</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 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><BR>–––<BR>Inbound email: This email has been scanned for all viruses by MessageLabs (CMWN)<BR> <BR> –––<BR> This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email<BR> Security System. 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