Hello,
I have not been able to reproduce that problem with IE 7 beta, but I
have found that it occasionally stalls out after the files have been
cleared from the cache (though not if this is the first time to visit
the page, then it seems to work fine - maybe if all history is cleared
and not just the cache it solves the problem?).
I think the defer attribute on the script my be causing this - I have
had some issues with using this method as an ondomcomplete event
mimicker, and I'm not sure it always works (it definitely does not under
IE 5.5 on Windows 98 that I'm running in VMware - it's the standalone
install, which might be the problem). Do you have the same problem if
you are running this script from onload instead of using the deferred
script? If so, then a possible fix might be to use ondocumentready
instead, and just fix the objects that are available at each stage of
ondocument ready (I have never used that, so I'm not sure it would work,
but it might be worth a try, if this is an onload problem).
If that is not the problem and/or that solution doesn't work, it might
be possible to add the replacement script the each individual object
tag's onload, so that the replacement doesn't happen until we know that
the specific object has been loaded (though I'm not sure they are
loading if you set the display to none, and if they are, then you get
the double loading issue). Setting these onload properties could be done
during the stages of ondocumentready (or if the deferred script is
actually working, we could just use that).
I will do some testing on these tricks, and see what I can come up with,
but I probably will not be able to get to it any time soon - its quite
busy around here. :-)
BTW, I have no problem discussing this stuff in the mailing list, if it
isn't too OT.
Thanks,
Kevin N.
Tom Lee wrote:
Kevin,
I just tried out your patentmagic demo, and found that it suffers from the
same problem I have faced in my own attempts. If you empty your cache and
then reload the page, the Active X control does require activation. (I have
verified this on 3 individual PCs). I blogged about the problem at
http://tom-lee.blogspot.com/2006/06/eolas-workaround-fails-if-triggered.html
. The post contains a test page to verify. Perhaps we can join forces and
figure out what the hell's going on with this? I'd be happy to work with
you off-list if you prefer.
-tom
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Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 3:49 PM
To: Flashcoders mailing list
Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Eolas "fix" and backspace key flash bug
Is the problem that you can't run Javascript at all, or that you need to
put the embed code in html instead of javascript?
You could use this patent fix:
http://www.unfocus.com/projects/patentmagic/
It still relies on scripting being enabled (so you'd still have this
problem for anyone that doesn't have JS enabled - if they don't have JS
enabled, they probably don't have ActiveX enable either though), but you
can at least use your html markup to embed the flash movie.
Kevin N.
Alec Matusis wrote:
I have to embed flash applets into web pages directly, without Javascript
Eolas "workaround". The users therefore have to "click to activate" the
flash movie in IE.
After that, the Flash movie properly receives the text input, EXCEPT for
Backspace and Tab keys. Pressing Backspace has an action of "Back" button
in
the browser, it takes a user back one page. Pressing Tab moves the focus
into another object in the browser.
So it looks like when the control is "activated" , the Flash receives only
a
PARTIAL focus: it accepts all text input except Backspace and Tab. When
you
click on Flash the second time, it receives full focus, and Backspace and
Tab function properly.
Can anyone explain this behavior? Is this an IE bug?
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