Hmmm That's a curly one, and subject which I have never dealt with personally.
I take it you have read up on the way IE handles focusing of vertain elements (old though): http://juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php It seems like only certain elements will receive focus. BTW - the page deos not tab properly even once for me in IE8, but FF works as intended. I am sorry that I can't offer much help on this one other than hypothesising that it is due to the inability for IE to tab to an <object> tag. If you do not use swfobject and use a standard <object>/<embed> embedding method, does it work as intended? Have you tried swfobject static publishing mode as well? Aran On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got a page with multiple instances of swfobject being used. This > works fine in FireFox, but in (seemingly only) IE8, the tab navigation > becomes unusable. In IE8, tabbing around the page works fine the first > time, and then subsequent attempts merely cycle the focus between the > address bar, page tab and some of the IE toolbar. > > I would have initially put this down as an IE oddity, but the only way > I've found to fix the problem is to disable all of the swfobects on > the page, at which point it works. > > What I'm doing: > > There may (read: probably is) a more efficient way of doing what I'm > doing! However this is what I've got so far. > > I'm using a small flash object to play an mp3 as the user tabs\mouses > around a page. There is a seperate mp3 for each control on the page, > and some pages have up to 12 instances of swfobject, all with unique > flashvars, attributes and params variables, and bringing in a seperate > mp3 file. > > You can see a sample of the page in question at > http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/aac/begin.php > > If I remove all of the javascript code creating the swfobjects from > the page, the page functions correctly. However, only under IE8, with > the swfobjects present, the focus behaviour as I tab around the page > goes awry as explained above. > > Does anyone have any advice on this issue, or have you experienced > issued with multiple swfobject instances within IE8? > > Thanks in advance for your time. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
