Thanks for your replies Aran and Bobby. Thanks for a nice Flash detection mechanism!
I thought I'd post here the resolution I found for the issue where Express Install redirects to the Adobe Flash Web site. It was due to me testing my swfobject wrapper on my local file system and not a proper Web server. Apparently, in this situation the user gets redirected to Adobe instead of the "file://" based URI of your local file system. Hopefully, this helps others experiencing this same behavior. Another helpful tip is to check the "more details" when uninstalling a Flash Player version for testing. Some player versions seem to require a system reboot when they are removed from your system. There is no pop-up to tell you that you need to reboot your system. This created no end of trouble for me as I was using various Flash versions for testing the upgrade process. Once I figured this out, I was able to quickly configure my swfobject behavior. Now if we could upgrade Flash without closing the browser... it's probably easier said than done. Cheers, Jim On Jan 10, 2:22 am, Bobby <[email protected]> wrote: > Aran, you're correct, this a mechanism provided by Adobe, which > SWFObject can only trigger. > > I agree, it is far from perfect, e.g. when you install the unity3d > player, you can just install the player while not having to close and > restart the browser. > > On Jan 10, 1:38 am, "Aran Rhee" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jim > > > Bobby and others can correct me on this, but I believe once you are into the > > expressInstall process, SWFObject is no longer in control of what happens in > > regards to redirections etc. > > > A flashvar called MMredirectURL is used by the expressinstall swf which then > > determines where expressinstall should take users on complete. Swfobject > > passes the value of document.location already to return you to your original > > page (you can search for MMredirectURL in the swfobject.js source file to > > see this happening). > > > The only issue I am aware of is that of a page with multi querystring vars > > in that the redirection page can truncate to the first querystring value > > only, which has now been fixed in 2.2 > > alpha:http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/issues/detail?id=172#c8 > > > Cheers, > > Aran > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > > Behalf Of Spin > > Sent: Saturday, 10 January 2009 6:27 AM > > To: SWFObject > > Subject: Express Install not working as advertised > > > I am experiencing redirect issues with Express Install. Using Firefox > > 3... > > > Once I select "yes" to upgrade/install the new version of Flash > > Player, a Flash Player Plugin Installer window appears telling me that > > the install cannot complete until I close the browser and then select > > the "Try Again" button. Once I close the browser and select "Try > > Again" the install completes and a browser is launched and directed to > > Adobe's Flash Player Install page. > > > This is not the behavior I expected from Express Install. > > > Any information of streamlining this process to make it 1) simpler and > > 2) have the browser go to my html page that hosts my swf would be much > > appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
