Good news! I got my hands on a physical PC running Windows XP / IE8 natively and everything worked as expected... which leads me to the conclusion that the problem lies with VMware Fusion 3.02 in combination with IE8. I'll submit a bug report with the VMWare team.
Here is a quick screencast of what I'm seeing - http://tinyurl.com/yblgpdw Thanks for your help getting to the bottom of this. Lou On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Aran Rhee wrote: > Sounds like a good way to test to me (using any of the multi instanced IE > solutions are problematic) > > So the crazy ExpressInstall behavior happens on all pages, or just your test > page? If you visit another swfobject page, does it still happen? > http://demos.learnswfobject.com/express-install/dynamic.html > > IE8 and ExpressInstall have been tested thoroughly as working by the > SWFObject team (as well as the 1000's of sites utilizing SWFObejct), so I > think this will be something about your particular environment (I just can't > think of what it might be yet) > > Aran > > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Lou Klepner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aran, > > We've been testing with IE8 running on Windows XP SP2 within a VMware Fusion > 3 instance. > > Our testing procedure has involved uninstalling the FP using Adobe's > uninstall utility, then installing FP 9.0.262 and visiting a page with a > SWFObject 2.2 dynamic embed that requires FP 10 with the ExpressInstall > option. > > Any suggestions on how we might be debug this? > > Thanks, > Lou > > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 7:30 PM, Aran Rhee wrote: > >> Hi Lou. >> >> We have not come across an error like your describing with IE8. Is the IE8 >> install an actual install, or are you using one of the multi-IE products >> like from Tredosoft? >> >> As you would have seen with IE6/7, the whole idea of ExpressInstall is that >> the process happens inline without having to leave the page... >> >> >> Aran >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:17 AM, Lou Klepner <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm testing an ExpressInstall upgrade from FP 9 to FP 10 using >> SWFObject 2.2. All is well in every browser I've tested so far (IE6, >> IE7, FF3.6 on Windows, FF3.6 on Mac, Safari4 on Mac) but it is failing >> in Internet Explorer 8. >> >> The installation process seems to endlessly cycles - asking the user >> if they'd like to upgrade then opening a new browser and asking again. >> This is happening on Windows XP SP2 machine with full administrative >> privileges. >> >> I searched the archives but couldn't find any reports of this >> particular issue. Has anyone else experienced it? Any ideas on how to >> work around it? >> >> Many thanks! >> >> Best, >> Lou >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
