Strange behaviour in IE7 when embedding flash

Hi all,

I’d be grateful if anyone could shed some light on this.

I am embedding flash into my site with the following code:



I drop partners.swf into my ’img’ directory and all is well on firefox/safari but i don’t see the flash when viewing in IE7. When viewing the source from within IE7 it has expanded [(base_url)] correctly - it just doesn’t seem to find the file.

I’ve found that if i make a copy of partners.swf in the root directory of my site it shows up fine in IE7!

Has anyone else seen this? or am i missing something?

thanks,
Dave

Maybe the "movie" param needs to specify the full path as well?

thanks netProphET you’re right,

i ran some more tests:



seems to be ignored by firefox and safari, but for IE7 to work it must be present and must give the full path to the .swf

IE uses different syntax to all other browsers.

object and embed are the 2 tags you need to google for, or in your flash just go to publish settings and export the HTMl as well. Simply cut and paste that then.

Hth,
Taff

If you’re using flash media regularly, i suggest you use SWFObject http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ for the embedding. It’s a elaborate javascript that does all the flash version checking, embedding etc. for you. The good thing about it is, that you can easily provide an alternative media in case the user has no flash (or javascript) enabled.
And as a further plus: it validates as xhtml strict (where nested object/embed tags fail)

Regards -- roman

on that note I have added a snippet for embedding flash into MODx, just can’t remember how far I got with it. Look in the resources should you want to make use of it.

Taff