Flash animation visible in Firefox, white in IE

right, I just realized this 2 days ago on my own WP2.1…. I doubt it is related to WordPress, but it would be great to find a solution to the problem. I have mine embedded in my header and sidebar–works fine on straight HTML but not when embedded in my blog…

This plugin solved all my problems:
https://kimili.com/plugins/kml_flashembed

try it: I embedded mine in my sidebar and my header with no problems in IE or Firefox.

to the OP:

your code is incomplete. you are lacking:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="https://www.domain.com/blah.swf" width="xx" height="xx">

and you really ought to use full urls to flash files, since they’ll usually break on permalink pages without doing so.

Thanks for the hint. I completed the url as suggested. It works now ??

Firefox seems to be using the <embed></embed> while IE uses the other (object) tags. The embed tag had a complete url. The url to the flash file in “movie” was incomplete. Hence, IE could not find the data.

I included the full url like this: <param name=”movie” value=”https://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/mybanner.swf “></param>

I also closed both the parameter tags with </param>

I happened to find this page, too: https://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Embedding_Flash

Microsoft was sued several years ago for stealing another companies code that allowed the display of plugins like Flash. They then installed a new plugin on your computer which gave you the white box that you see. Now the only way to get around it is to use something like javascript. Those that turn javascript off will not have any way to see the page properly displayed while using IE.

ahhh…. thanks for the tip webDressing. I wish there was a perfect standard for everything in life so these types of depressing cross-standard fights don’t happen–they hurt the consumer in the end. One browser, one OS, one software, etc… would make life smoother.

But I DO see the animation now in IE! No white box. No IE plugin uninstalled. No javascript used.

I wish there was a perfect standard for everything in life so these types of depressing cross-standard fights don’t happen

As a coder/designer this is one of the most frustrating things. It’s almost the year 2010 and you’d think that having ONE standard would be common place, but sadly it’s not. Each browser company has a huge ego and they all think that ‘their’ way of doing things is the only way of doing things. Safari and FireFox are pretty much on the same page, but IE is the pits. There is also a new Javascript prompt( ) problem with IE7, so if you use IE7 be prepaired to see a lot of false security warnings coming your way. Unfortunately IE takes up almost half of the market so they figure they don’t have to play fair, and they make up their own rules. When people wise up and stop using IE, that’s when a ‘one standard’ world will be possible.

I wish there was a perfect standard for everything in life so these types of depressing cross-standard fights don’t happen

I agree. But… less seriously:

Another wish might be a global standard language (spoken)… and an ISO religion. I fear though, that the fight never ends… There will allways be competing standards as long as mankind exists.

ps. Sorry, this doesn’t belong here, but I just couldn’t resist ??

wordPress is my religion :p