Yeah that's not how you do it. :)
A lot of people have problems with the function within a function thing,
though myself included.
Try:
$(document).ready(SWFLoad);
var SWFLoad = function(...) {
}
Vincent
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:02 AM, citznfish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Jul 23, 10:32 am, Vincent Polite <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > OK. I've looked at your code and am ready to offer a couple of
> suggestions.
> >
> > 1. Do you have the ability to affect anything besides that limited div
> of
> > space? You mentioned you can't get at the <head>, was curious if you had
> > access to the rest of the body of HTML.
> >
> > I ask this because ultimately we want to make sure that swfobject and the
> > DOM are properly loaded and we try to defer as much in the way of latency
> > issues as we can. So, if you can just define the altcontent div, load
> > swfobject.js as early as you can in the process, define your SWFLoad
> > function as early as possible, and then invoke your javascript routines
> as
> > late as you can in the web page, that may provide some assistance.
> >
> > 2. I noticed that you did have the jQuery library as well as SWFObject.
> I
> > do not know what, if any collisions occur between SWFObject's DOMReady
> event
> > injection and jQuery's, but I would like to suggest that instead of using
> > SWFObject's version, try the jQuery analog, which for you would be
> something
> > like:
> >
> > $(document).ready(function() {}); where you replace function with your
> > SWFLoad reference either as an actual function definition or calling it
> > after the fact.
> >
> > Note that a shortcut exists where if you just do $(<function>); that the
> > function is automatically bound to the document.ready event.
> >
> > Please try this, and publish the result.
> >
> > Optional: Another interesting thing to try would be to add an alert('I
> am
> > ready') to your onload/document ready function. It would be interesting
> to
> > see if the forced human delay gives FF3.5 time to write to screen
> properly.
> >
> > Optional Part 2: The next thing to do would be to add an
> alert('embedding
> > SWF') to see if it is reaching the javascript that is attempting to embed
> > the object. Putting this alert just before your embed call would assure
> you
> > that the function call is not getting lose for some reason.
> >
> > Vincent
>
> 1) Unfortunately I only have access to that area, it's as high up as I
> can place it.
>
> 2) I tried doing this but it broke in all browsers so I took it back
> down. I'm not that familiar with jQuery so maybe I did it wrong?
>
> here is what i had:
>
> <!-- swfobject2.2 -->
> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://content.guess.com/swfobject/
> swfobject.js <http://content.guess.com/swfobject/%0Aswfobject.js>
> "></script>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(SWFLoad() {
>
>
>
> var SWFLoad = function() {
> var flashvars = {};
> var params = {};
> params.menu = "false";
> params.quality = "high";
> params.wmode = "transparent";
> params.bgcolor = "#ffffff";
> params.allowfullscreen = "false";
> params.allowscriptaccess = "always";
> var attributes = {};
> attributes.id = "shoes";
> swfobject.embedSWF("
> http://content.guess.com/GuessCanada/Landing/
> Shoes/2009-07-07/shoesCA.swf<http://content.guess.com/GuessCanada/Landing/%0AShoes/2009-07-07/shoesCA.swf>",
> "altContent", "666", "522", "9.0.0",
> false, flashvars, params, attributes);
> };
>
> });
>
>
> </script>
>
> <div id="altContent">
> <a href="http://shop.guess.com/ProductListing.aspx?
> page=GRID&browse=1&root_category|46=Women&category|cat_47|
> 2816=Tees&rpt=<http://shop.guess.com/ProductListing.aspx?%0Apage=GRID&browse=1&root_category%7C46=Women&category%7Ccat_47%7C%0A2816=Tees&rpt=>
> &pt=ProductListing.aspx"><img src="http://
> content.guess.com/GuessCanada/Landing/Shoes/2009-07-07/
> shoesStaticImage.jpg<http://content.guess.com/GuessCanada/Landing/Shoes/2009-07-07/%0AshoesStaticImage.jpg>"
> alt="GUESS shoes" title="GUESS shoes"
> border="0" /></a></p><p><h4>Our web site is designed for Flash enabled
> browsers. If you would like the full experience please install the
> latest Flash player by clicking <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/
> getflashplayer">here.</a></h4></p>
> </div>
> <!-- End swfobject2.2 -->
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Optional Part 2: I added the alert at the begining of the function,
> and then moved it to after teh EmbedSWF call and it popped up, so it
> is def. going through the script:
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> var SWFLoad = function() {
> var flashvars = {};
> var params = {};
> params.menu = "false";
> params.quality = "high";
> params.wmode = "transparent";
> params.bgcolor = "#ffffff";
> params.allowfullscreen = "false";
> params.allowscriptaccess = "always";
> var attributes = {};
> attributes.id = "shoes";
> swfobject.embedSWF("
> http://content.guess.com/GuessCanada/Landing/
> Shoes/2009-07-07/shoesCA.swf<http://content.guess.com/GuessCanada/Landing/%0AShoes/2009-07-07/shoesCA.swf>",
> "altContent", "666", "522", "9.0.0",
> false, flashvars, params, attributes);
> alert('Please close this window. This is temporarily testing the
> website');
> };
> swfobject.addDomLoadEvent(SWFLoad);
> </script>
>
>
>
> But still a blank screen in FF 3.0.7
>
>
>
>
> >
>
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