SWFObject altContent truncated?!

2 Posts

kPod Reply #1, 17 years, 8 months ago

Hello,

this has been bugging me and I don’t quite get it.

Here’s my call to the snippet:

[[SWFObject? &mode=`static` &objWidth=`760` &objHeight=`323` &flashVersion=`7.0.0` &objId=`frontFlash` &swfFile=`assets/flash/Flash.swf` &flashParam=`bgcolor:"#1A0600"` &altContent=`Welcome!<div id='altContent'> </div>` ]]

Here’s what comes out in the browser:

<object id="frontFlash" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="760" height="323">
  <param name="movie" value="assets/flash/Flash.swf" />
  <param name="bgcolor" value="#1A0600" />
  <!--[if !IE]>-->
  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="assets/flash/Flash.swf" width="760" height="323">
  <param name="bgcolor" value="#1A0600" />
   <!--<![endif]-->
Welcome!<div i
  <!--[if !IE]>-->
  </object>
  <!--<![endif]-->
</object>

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Jul Reply #2, 17 years, 8 months ago

Hello,

I didn’t used the SWFObject snippet, but this static code works with many browsers (not valid XHTML however) :

<object width="448" height="336"
		classid="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
		codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/ mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=*"
		standby="Chargement…"
		type="application/x-oleobject">

		<param name="filename" value="img/machines/fabrication_empanadas.wmv">
		<param name="autostart" value="0">
		<param name="showcontrols" value="1">
		<embed name="video1" width="448" height="336"
		type="video/x-ms-wmv"
		pluginspage = "http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/"
		src="img/machines/fabrication_empanadas.wmv"
		autostart="0" showcontrols="1">
		</embed></object>

Maybe you can change the SWFObject snippet code using above example.

This seems me strange in your snippet output : !IE]>

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kPod Reply #3, 17 years, 8 months ago

Thanks for your post.

I really want to stay with SWFObject, because of alternate content and browser compatibility all that. I think even Adobe is now using it to publish Flash files from CS4.

Seems like somehow, the SWFObject snippet is trimming the variable...

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ganeshXL Reply #4, 17 years, 8 months ago

Unfortunately, you can’t use certain characters in snippet values: ? = &

Hence,

&altContent=`Welcome!<div id='altContent'> </div>`

is cut off after "div id"...

I would rewrite the snippet so it automatically adds the DIV, and all you insert is just plain text (the stuff inside the div). Or you can create a chunk and insert that in the snippet parameter. Or use simple string-replacement, e.g.
|EQ| -> =
|AMP| -> &
|QM| -> ?

$foo .= str_replace("|EQ|", "=", $foo);

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