It's not a swfObject issue. "It's a browser thing." Having to refresh is just like any other programs you update. They all have to be restarted in order for the new changes to take effect.
Besides, it's very rare for any user to not have flash player installed on their machine. Nathan Mynarcik [email protected] www.mynarcik.com <http://www.mynarcik.com/feed/rss.xml> <http://www.twitter.com/NMynarcik> <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nathan-Mynarcik-Interactive-Web-Developer/265263144230> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanmynarcik> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:16 AM, rabbledabble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Regardless, if you uninstall / reinstall Flash, you should definitely > > restart the browser before testing... > > This seems really counter intuitive from a user perspective. If i > have never installed flash, go to a page with flash on it, click a > link to install flash, then go back to the page, I will be wondering > why exactly it doesn't work. It seems an unnecessary extra step for > the user to have to refresh the page. I swear that version 1.5 did > not have this problem at all. > > On Nov 4, 7:16 pm, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry for the confusion - Express install is a mechanism to update your > > Flash player if FP 6.0.65 and greater is already installed. If you have > no > > Flash player, then no, EI cannot be used (as it is activated through > Flash > > player) > > > > The registrarion of your Flash player can sometimes become corrupted > > (meaning SWFObejct cannot detect the version correctly). Perhaps this is > > what happened? > > > > http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/faq > > > > <http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/faq>#2 / #3 > > > > Regardless, if you uninstall / reinstall Flash, you should definitely > > restart the browser before testing... > > > > Aran > > > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:56 PM, rabbledabble <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If you install Flash manually, then I would expect wonky behavior > until > > > you > > > > restart the browser to let the plugin register properly.... > > > This wasn't the case for swfobject 1.5. Also, i have never gotten that > > > express install to work. Should it launch even if you have flash not > > > installed? > > > > > On Nov 4, 3:53 pm, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > well, you pass null in as your expressInstall.swf location, so you > won't > > > get > > > > any in page Flash player updating (which will update the player, then > > > > display your content without having to refresh in most browsers) > > > > > > If you install Flash manually, then I would expect wonky behavior > until > > > you > > > > restart the browser to let the plugin register properly.... > > > > > > Aran > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM, rabbledabble <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Code example: > > > > >http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=TWVS52HF > > > > > > > On Nov 3, 10:54 am, rabbledabble <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I have a simple html page with a button that when clicked will > > > display > > > > > > a video in a container using the swfobject.embedSWF function. I > did > > > a > > > > > > test where i uninstalled flash from my machine (control > panel->add > > > > > > remove programs), then loaded my page and tried clicking the > button > > > to > > > > > > show the video. As expected it did not show. However, after > > > > > > installing flash, then coming back to the same page (not > reloaded), > > > > > > the link still wont embed the video. I notice the callback says > > > > > > "success:false". If I reload the page, however, it will work as > > > > > > expected. > > > > > > > > Is this a flaw in swfobject or the way I am implementing this? 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