?.swf not showing in IE9?

Question

I am having difficulty with getting a flash animation to show up in IE9.  It shows up in Firefox and Chrome.  How do I work around this? Here is the code if that helps:

  <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="280" height="240" id="Rockachicken2" align="middle">
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
                <param name="allowFullScreen" value="false" />
                <param name="movie" value="Rockachicken.swf" />
                <param name="quality" value="best" />
                <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
                <embed src="http://www.yoad.info/files/spinchick-2.swf" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="280" height="240" name="Rockachicken" align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />             
</object>
              </noscript>

or as alterbative:

     <object data="http://www.yoad.info/files/spinchick-2.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="280" height="240">
    <param name="movie" value="spinchick-2.swf">
    
    <!-- If flash is not installed -->
    <p>You need Adobe Flash Player to view this content</p>
</object>
           

Link to first option: http://yoad.info/pages/33.php

to 2nd option: http://yoad.info/pages/35.php

i have been trying and trying but can seem to resolve this.

Please Help.

David

Answer 1

I'm not sure why IE9 isn't showing the animations, but I gotta tell you, that's the goofiest presentation I've ever seen.

Web visitors are not accustomed to horizontal scrolling like that, and having that fixed div_head is a BAD idea, as is your choice of a table-based layout. You should set that page up for vertical scrolling, and ditch the non-semantic tables. And, BTW, are you aware that CSS expressions are only recognized by IE, and by no other browser, and that they can create a serious hit on page performance, being evaluated more than ten thousand times in a visit? If you put critical positioning in a CSS expression, it will not be recognized by browsers other than IE.

IE has security provisions not implemented in other browsers, so that may be the source of your swf display issues, but you need to fix your other issues before worrying about that.

cheers,
scott

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Answer 2

Also, a  navigation menu with only numbers is a tad obtuse ---

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Answer 3

Heh, heh... yeah, that, too.  ;-)

Gotta say, the actual intent of the site is murky—a portfolio site? A curriculum vitae? What? In any event, that awkward, difficult to use navigation, stilted prose, and, well... frankly, weird design would have me leaving within moments of arrival. Who is your target audience, and what makes you think that you can flout Web convention and not drive visitors away?

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Answer 4

Why flash doesn't play in one browser but does in others is not an EW question, but a browser question or a flash question.

Other than the obvious  - Do you have the version of flash needed installed in that browser? - you'd be better off on a flash forum or an IE9 forum. 

Answer 5

Thank you all guys for your comments. I was looking more for a functional solution to this issue (which is trivial, I hoped).

All I wanted to know is why the animated gifs/swf file in the <object> code only play/visible/loaded on firefox.

The source, pages and link are all above. Again if this not the right forum please indicate to me where should I post this

many thanks,

D

Answer 6

Google for a flash or IE9 forum, or both.

Answer 7

dear Kathy,

I have solved the problem by using the embed src= tag only. I think its amazing that none of the other guys who 'replied' did not point me to such a simple solution.

thank you.

Answer 8

How would we know that was the solution?  Combining object and embed was common practice to support older versions of IE.  If there's a reason why it wasn't working the way you did it, specifically, as I said, a flash or IE9 forum might be able to explain it to you, but it's not an EW question.