I'm guessing that you are checking the page in IE locally, you have not uploaded the page to the internet anywhere, right? The security alert that you got is not the old 'click to activate' issue, but is from your local windows setup - if you upload that page to a test area on the internet, you will find that it will load and display just fine. You will also notice that when you check the page on your local computer, and you get that error, you are given the opportunity to change a setting on your machine to allow the swf to load without seeing this warning again - you can browse to the file or directory that it is in, and add that folder or file and make it part of an area that flash will not box in for outside calls. If you have a master folder that contains all of your web site pages from various sites, select this folder so that you will not see this warning again for any other of your sites as well. jimbo
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, SimpleGeekAce <[email protected]> wrote: > > So here's my thing. Basically I'm trying to recreate a website for a > local non-profit. They paid for a great looking site that is > essentially php-based, but it has issues with IE (won't load at all) > and they've got some funky issue with their flash menu going behind > their flash banner. Basically pissed off the non-profit because they > won't fix it cause their closing shop. I had done a site for one of > the people working in the non-profit and so was brought it to fix the > problem. I'm not a php person, I hate it. Dynamic content is great, > but I can handle it myself in CSS. Plus the backend for it doesn't > allow for much change, as far as I can tell. I was basically out of my > league in trying to take over their php. > > I have up to this point been able to create the basic page layout, > minus the banner and menu. Since I found the issue with the original > version of the site to be the banner, I looked up taming that beast > and found SWFObject. From what I gathered, it was supposed to remove > the need to have to activate ActiveX controls on the page as well as > the need for doing other solutions, like disabling the scripting > debugging. It should work for IE and Firefox with no issue, > essentially allowing the page to load with no issue. > > But it doesn't. Following everything avail (that I can find) via this > group, downloading the SWFObject 2.2 javascript code as well as the > AIR generator, I figured this should be easy. I generated the code, > even leaving in the alternative content that displays the button to > get Adobe Flashplayer. Popped it all in CSDW 3.0 and then checked the > site in both IE 6 and Firefox. Firefox loads the page with no issues, > other than a weird space (which I corrected with a minor margin jog). > But IE basically will load the page with the alt content and then > gives a pop up for 'security restricted from showing active content'. > > Again, from what I gathered, SWFObject was supposed to prevent this > problem. IE on my system is defaulted, with no particular changes. > I'm trying to go at it from a typical novice computer user. Any help? > > Here's my code: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http:// > www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> > <head> > <title>SC Healthcare Voices</title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1" /> > <link href="background.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> > <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> > <script type="text/javascript"> > var flashvars = {}; > var params = {}; > var attributes = {}; > swfobject.embedSWF("flash.swf", "flashbanner", > "900", "171", > "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes); > </script> > </head> > <body> > <div id="header"></div> > <div id="flashbanner"> > <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer";><img src="http:// > www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" > alt="Get Adobe Flash player" /></a> > </div> > <div id="container"> > <p>Something</p> > </div> > </body> > </html> > > Any help, suggestions? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
