[discopig]

Hi there,

I made this site for a friend:

http://www.goreyhalloween.com

for the header I purchased a small flash template.

It works fine in Firefox and Chrome but the header does not display in IE8

I installed IE9 on my win7 machine and it works fine in IE9

a lot of people are still using IE8 and I need to get it working

could it be some setting in dreamweaver? can i add a bit of code?

thanks guy

[zed]

you may want to look at alternative embeds. It will play in IE8 if you go direct to the .swf but how it's embedded is not liked.

[zed]

this may help http://stackoverflow...one-take-a-look

[discopig]

thanks for the quick reply


this was my old code:

<object width="900" height="488" data="flash/header.swf?pag=1" codetype="application/x-shockwave-flash" >
          <param name="movie" value="flash/header.swf?pag=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
          <embed src="flash/header.swf?pag=1" width="900" height="488"></embed>
        </object>

and this is the new code made to look more like the code on the links you sent me:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flash/header.swf" width="900" height="488">
          <param name="movie" value="flash/header.swf">
          <embed href="/flash/header.swf" width="900" height="488" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
          pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"</embed>
        </object>

IE still does not display it unfortunately

any ideas?

thanks

[discopig]

**update

when I preview it offline by pressing F12 in dreamweaver, IE8 gives me that little "blip" noise and asks if I want to run ActiveX, I allow it and then the browser crashes

when preview on live server I just get the "red X"

[zed]

just took your current page (from the link) and changed 'codetype' to 'type' and it worked. This was in IE9 but set to Browser mode IE8

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zed, on 11 October 2011 - 05:34 PM, said:

just took your current page (from the link) and changed 'codetype' to 'type' and it worked. This was in IE9 but set to Browser mode IE8

thanks,

i tried that there now but to no avail

[zed]

it could be a compatibility mode thing or it could because I was implicit with the URL

<div class="body" style="margin-bottom:6px"><span class="body" style="margin-bottom:6px">
        <script type="text/javascript">
AC_AX_RunContent( 'width','900','height','488','data','http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1','codetype','application/x-shockwave-flash','src','http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1','movie','http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1' ); //end AC code
        </script>
        <noscript>
        <object width="900" height="488" data="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" >
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
          <embed src="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" width="900" height="488"></embed>
        </object>
        </noscript>
      </span></div>

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zed, on 11 October 2011 - 06:04 PM, said:

it could be a compatibility mode thing or it could because I was implicit with the URL

<div class="body" style="margin-bottom:6px"><span class="body" style="margin-bottom:6px">
        <script type="text/javascript">
AC_AX_RunContent( 'width','900','height','488','data','http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1','codetype','application/x-shockwave-flash','src','http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1','movie','http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1' ); //end AC code
        </script>
        <noscript>
        <object width="900" height="488" data="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" >
          <param name="movie" value="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
          <embed src="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" width="900" height="488"></embed>
        </object>
        </noscript>
      </span></div>

thanks,

I have just updated the page the above code: http://www.goreyhalloween.com

and IE8 still just displays a little red x, this is really starting to buy me, I normally wouldnt care but the person I made the site for likes IE8 (for some reason) and needs it working on it

[zed]

strange/

try putting type="application/x-shockwave-flash" in the embed

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zed, on 11 October 2011 - 06:23 PM, said:

strange/

try putting type="application/x-shockwave-flash" in the embed

like this?:

<embed href="http://www.goreyhalloween.com/flash/header.swf?pag=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="900" height="488"></embed>


still not working

[zed]

have you reset your cache (crtl-F5). it works for me okay.

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zed, on 11 October 2011 - 06:34 PM, said:

have you reset your cache (crtl-F5). it works for me okay.

yeah just tried that, no go i'm afraid.

you say it works for you? you are using IE9 in IE8 mode? that's interesting, if I could get someone who uses IE8 on WinXP to test it and report it working then I'd be happy as I dont care if it works on my machine or not, just need it working on most peoples IE8

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have to pop out for a while now, I appreciate all the help so far mate

[Wickham]

Several things to check:-

Does the flash play when you use compatibility view (which is IE7)? If it does play, the next items are irrelevant.

IE uses a different flash player. You need to use IE to download from Adobe Flash Player and it will give you the ActiveX version. If I look in my Control Panel Programs and Features I see "Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX" for IE and "Adobe Flash Player 10 Plugin" for other browsers.

Check IE Tools, Internet Options, Security, Internet, Custom Level that you have Binary and Script Behaviors, Run Active X Controls and Active Scripting all enabled (remember to reset later).

If it works in IE9 on Win7 then I think the code is not the problem as it should work with the same code for all IE versions.

This post has been edited by Wickham: 11 October 2011 - 07:49 PM

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I think I sorted it!

i used this entire code:

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','900','height','488','title','movie','src','flash/header','quality','high','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','flash/header' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="900" height="488" title="movie">
  <param name="movie" value="flash/header.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  <embed src="flash/header.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="900" height="488"></embed>
</object></noscript>

seems to be working, please let me know

thanks

[Wickham]

It is working for me in IE9 using IE8 developer mode now that you have used the classid method instead of the type="application/x-shockwave-flash", but both methods should work in all IE versions.

As I understand it, the type="application/x-shockwave-flash" method only works in IE if you have the ActiveX version of Flash Player installed, and the correct IE settings, but the classid method should work on computers that don't have the ActiveX version installed as it uses the macromedia link, so I suppose that makes it the safer method, but I've always thought that Flash playing is over-complicated.

This post has been edited by Wickham: 11 October 2011 - 08:43 PM

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Wickham, on 11 October 2011 - 08:27 PM, said:

It is working for me in IE9 using IE8 developer mode now that you have used the classid method instead of the type="application/x-shockwave-flash", but both methods should work in all IE versions.

As I understand it, the type="application/x-shockwave-flash" method only works in IE if you have the ActiveX version of Flash Player installed, and the correct IE settings, but the classid method should work on computers that don't have the ActiveX version installed as it uses the macromedia link, so I suppose that makes it the safer method, but I've always thought that Flash playing is over-complicated.

yeah, I'm a bit of a newbie (if you hadn't already guessed lol) and I was always scared of flash altogether, but this time I saw this template and just thought it was perfect for the job, I had never even used flash before this and I had to learn quickly how to edit the links and get stuff the way i wanted it, i thought i was doing so well until all this embedding stuff, oh well sorted now i suppose

thanks everyone for all your help,

this seems like a great forum i think ill stick around

thanks

cillian

[judthryn]

what about that ActiveXplugin? have you enabled that addon?
Either there must be a problem in your plugin or installing the flash player. hope nothing wrong in the code.

This post has been edited by zed: 21 November 2011 - 10:52 AM
Reason for edit: remove spammy link