<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Geoff, <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>That makes sense.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lisa</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 27 Nov 2006, at 05:19, Geoff Stearns wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">here's my response to this question to another message sent last week:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">it may work in some browsers, but it's not a very good idea...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">swfobject replaces the content in the target div, so in a sense, it</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">would be replacing the script call that inserts itself.. so maybe if</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">you had some code after the .write() call, that might not be executed.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">not to mention strange results if the page is loading slow - you</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">would basically be trying to replace the html content of the div</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">before the div is loaded, which is bad.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV>to sum up: it's a bad idea to put the script within the div you are replacing, so it should always be after.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 25, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Lisa Konrad wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">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?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>thanks </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lisa</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 25 Nov 2006, at 17:36, Jim Berkey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>Your end div for your circle div should end right after: </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV id="line70">Flash Player installed.</<SPAN class="end-tag">p</SPAN>></div></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Then insert your script for the SWFObject</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 11/25/2006 at 4:56 PM Lisa Konrad wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">oops Apologies <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.arthouse.org/dragonindex.html">http://www.arthouse.org/dragonindex.html</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>On 25 Nov 2006, at 16:49, Jim Berkey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>Can you post a link to a problem page so we can see your code and help you correct it?</DIV> <DIV>jimbo<BR><FONT face="Arial" size="2">*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 11/25/2006 at 4:38 PM Lisa Konrad wrote:</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid">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!!! <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>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.</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>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...</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>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!</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV> <DIV>lisa</DIV><BR><BR> <DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Lisa Konrad</FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3"><A href="http://www.arthouse.org">http://www.arthouse.org</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">animations, paintings and flash</FONT></DIV></DIV><BR><FONT size="2" arial=""></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2" arial=""></FONT> <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><FONT size="2" arial=""></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size="2" arial=""></FONT><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><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>