<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">it seems to work fine for me in firefox / osx...<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>one thing you could try is placing the script tag in the head of the document instead of the body - theoretically, it shouldn't make a difference, but i think script tags in the head might be loaded differently in some browsers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Spooner wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Actually I think I might have answered my own question.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Check out the link below. I included the SWFObject class</DIV><DIV>in the page and it works like a charm.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://data.aviatech.com/franchise_ad_player/sample2.html">http://data.aviatech.com/franchise_ad_player/sample2.html</A></FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Thanks,</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">JS</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR></FONT><DIV><DIV>On Apr 28, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Spooner wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">I'm having a problem with the SWF not showing up the <B>first time</B> you visit<DIV>the page. If you refresh the page the SWF drops right in.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I've been using the SWFObject on other projects and i have not experienced</DIV><DIV>this problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>One thing I'm doing different is loading the SWF and swfobject.js from an absolute URL.</DIV><DIV>Do you think so.write(); is being fired off before swfobject.js has completed loading?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Here is the link</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://data.aviatech.com/franchise_ad_player/sample.html">http://data.aviatech.com/franchise_ad_player/sample.html</A></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">Thanks for the help!</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica">JS</FONT></DIV></SPAN><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><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>