Embedding Flash for IE

[Adrienne Boswell]

I have a client that I know uses IE (yes, I have already done the usual
speech about how bad it is, etc), and for the life of me, I can't figure
out how to get a flash object to work in IE. Of course, it works in more
modern browers (Opera, FF, K-Meleon, Safari, Chrome) but IE refuses to use
the Flash/SWF file, and displays the alternative static image.

The page in question is at [http://adrienneboswell.com/tiptop/index.php].
If the client approves this, I will buy the Istock photos - this is just
for testing.

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[cwdjrxyz]

I have a client that I know uses IE (yes, I have already done the usual
speech about how bad it is, etc), and for the life of me, I can't figure
out how to get a flash object to work in IE.  Of course, it works in more
modern browers (Opera, FF, K-Meleon, Safari, Chrome) but IE refuses to use
the Flash/SWF file, and displays the alternative static image.

The page in question is at [http://adrienneboswell.com/tiptop/index.php].
If the client approves this, I will buy the Istock photos - this is just
for testing.

See http://www.cwdjr.net/flash/Fatty.php . You will have to scroll
fairly far down the page before you right click to be able to get the
page source code. Windows conditional comments are used to route to IE
or other browsers. For IE, an ActiveX object is used.

To avoid confusion, I am using flv/swf. You use only the swf container
file link in the code, because it automatically calls the flv video
file which must be in the same directiory as the swf container file.
If you use the old fashioned swf file that combines both the container
and video, you still link to the swf file for it and there is no flv
used. From the source code you see by right clicking, you can not see
the flv to which the swf container file links, if that is the type of
flash you use.

Actually, my parrot uses this video on his Myspace page. He says you
are welcome to use the code. However if he ever meets you, it would be
nice to bring him a small bag of raw peanuts in the shell. He will not
accept salted and roasted peanuts and will spit them out.

 

[Neil Gould]

I have a client that I know uses IE (yes, I have already done the
usual speech about how bad it is, etc), and for the life of me, I
can't figure out how to get a flash object to work in IE. Of course,
it works in more modern browers (Opera, FF, K-Meleon, Safari, Chrome)
but IE refuses to use the Flash/SWF file, and displays the
alternative static image.

The page in question is at
[http://adrienneboswell.com/tiptop/index.php]. If the client approves
this, I will buy the Istock photos - this is just for testing.

Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm not sure what problem you are having Adirenne... although the Flash on
your page is glitchy, it works with IE6, so I'd think it would work with
newer versions as well. I have one on my home page that was done a few years
ago, and works in the browsers I've tested it with.

Best,

 

[Travis Newbury]

I have a client that I know uses IE (yes, I have already done the usual
speech about how bad it is, etc), and for the life of me, I can't figure
out how to get a flash object to work in IE.

Works fine for me in both IE and FF. But you might want to remove the
"IStockPhoto" watermark....

Travis (New and improved) Newbury

 

[cwdjrxyz]

I have a client that I know uses IE (yes, I have already done the usual
speech about how bad it is, etc), and for the life of me, I can't figure
out how to get a flash object to work in IE.  Of course, it works in more
modern browers (Opera, FF, K-Meleon, Safari, Chrome) but IE refuses to use
the Flash/SWF file, and displays the alternative static image.

The page in question is at [http://adrienneboswell.com/tiptop/index.php].
If the client approves this, I will buy the Istock photos - this is just
for testing.

Seehttp://www.cwdjr.net/flash/Fatty.php. You will have to scroll
fairly far down the page before you right click to be able to get the
page source code. Windows conditional comments are used to route to IE
or other browsers. For IE, an ActiveX object is used.

To avoid confusion, I am using flv/swf. You use only the swf container
file link in the code, because it automatically calls the flv video
file which must be in the same directiory as the swf container file.
If you use the old fashioned swf file that combines both the container
and video, you still link to the swf file for it and there is no flv
used. From the source code you see by right clicking, you can not see
the flv to which the swf container file links, if that is the type of
flash you use.

Since others report your flash file shows on IE7, I checked and it
works for me also on high speed download, about 6 Mbps.

You use an ordinary object only. For most browsers, a flash file will
start to stream after very brief buffering, but for IE the whole flash
file has to download first if only an ordinary object is used. Are you
checking on a slow speed dialup connection, or is your broadband
slowed down a lot? I would guess your flash file is fairly small since
it starts to play rapidly on your page with about 6 Mbps download.
However on my page, the flash move has a huge file size, because it
will play for several minutes. To avoid waiting a long time for the
movie to start, the ActiveX object is used for the IE path which will
cause the movies to start progressive download streaming very rapidly.
There is also a trick for using a very short flash file first that
links to the flash movie of interest, and this will cause the longer
movie to start streaming rapidly on IE.

I suggest you check your page on the slowest connection you will
tolerate. If there is too much delay on the flash showing for IE, then
you should use a method that makes IE start streaming without
requiring full download of the flash file first. If you can tolerate
the delay you get, then an ordinary object such as you use will be
sufficient.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed cwdjrxyz <[email protected]>
writing in (e-mail address removed):

Actually, my parrot uses this video on his Myspace page. He says you
are welcome to use the code. However if he ever meets you, it would be
nice to bring him a small bag of raw peanuts in the shell. He will not
accept salted and roasted peanuts and will spit them out.

Thank you so much, works perfectly. Would your parrot kindly accept some
nice unsalted cashews? My cat, Rolo, loves cashews.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

I have a client that I know uses IE (yes, I have already done the
usual speech about how bad it is, etc), and for the life of me, I
can't figure out how to get a flash object to work in IE. Of course,
it works in more modern browers (Opera, FF, K-Meleon, Safari, Chrome)
but IE refuses to use the Flash/SWF file, and displays the
alternative static image.

The page in question is at
[http://adrienneboswell.com/tiptop/index.php]. If the client approves
this, I will buy the Istock photos - this is just for testing.

Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm not sure what problem you are having Adirenne... although the
Flash on your page is glitchy, it works with IE6, so I'd think it
would work with newer versions as well. I have one on my home page
that was done a few years ago, and works in the browsers I've tested
it with.

Best,

I put some conditional comments on it, just to be sure. I never got it
on my system without them.

 

[Adrienne Boswell]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Travis Newbury

Works fine for me in both IE and FF. But you might want to remove the
"IStockPhoto" watermark....

Travis (New and improved) Newbury

Thanks, Travis. When and if the client approves it, I'll do that.

 

[dorayme]

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed cwdjrxyz <[email protected]>
writing in (e-mail address removed):


Thank you so much, works perfectly. Would your parrot kindly accept some
nice unsalted cashews? My cat, Rolo, loves cashews.

Be very very careful, cwdjrxyz. Rolo loves parrots too and if Rolo is as
clever as your parrot, this whole offer of cashews, salted or not, might
be a ploy to get close enough to your parrot to you know what...

 

[cwdjrxyz]

Be very very careful, cwdjrxyz. Rolo loves parrots too and if Rolo is as
clever as your parrot, this whole offer of cashews, salted or not, might
be a ploy to get close enough to your parrot to you know what...

The parrot does not trust most animals, or unknown people, for that
matter. If you do not know him very well, you had best not pick him
up. He can scratch and bite as hard as many wild alley cats. He
especially likes to bite fingers just at the cuticle around a finger
nail. He will also try to bite any veins on an arm that he can reach.
And pity a cat that would put their tail in his cage. He likely would
change the cat into a faux manx. He keeps his beak and claws very
sharp by honing them on a special rough concrete perch, and he can
turn a hardwood toy into sawdust in short order.

But I really did put a page up for him on MySpace for a while with the
mentioned video, among other things. The html used on MySpace is like
another world compared to what most posting here use. At least you can
link to a proper web page you have on a server. If you write proper
html on MySpace, it often gets changed to something else, often
something that would get over 20 bad responses if posted to this
group. I had to block friends requests for the parrot. He got a lot of
requests from young nude ladies whose MySpace sites were usually taken
down by MySpace very soon. I wrote in his blog that he was interested
in finding a nice lady parrot and was not interested in humans.