4 Replies Latest reply: Apr 6, 2009 11:27 AM by AttaBoy2 RSS

    Intermittent swf loading in IE

    EntWebDS Community Member
      I am baffled by IE's failure to consistently load my swf in the title area of a webpage. Sometimes it loads; sometimes it doesn't. F5 (refresh) will sometimes toggle it (make it appear if it didn't load or make it disappear if it did); sometimes it has no effect at all. A sample page can be accessed here. It appears to work fine in other browsers. It is just IE that gives me the problem.
        • 1. Re: Intermittent swf loading in IE
          EntWebDS Community Member
          I am now baffled by the forum's complete and utter silence on this issue. I have narrowed it down to a conflict with the flash menu that is loading on the same page, but don't yet have a clue as to what the conflict is, why it only occurs occasionally, or why only IE.

          Please, if anyone has a clue...
          • 2. Re: Intermittent swf loading in IE
            ghuntz
            I am a complete novice. Could this problem have sometning to do with IE7 security changes that may be treating the swf as a dangerous active x control.
            IE7 was supposed to fix the click to activate active x problem in April of 2008. After all these months, I imagine several people who frequent this forum can explain swf/active x dilema with IE7.
            • 3. Re: Intermittent swf loading in IE
              EntWebDS Community Member
              There is usually a message that displays when the "dangerous ActiveX" issue arises. And in such cases, it simply won't work at all until you click on the appropriate buttons in the dialog. This is an intermittent problem that occasionally causes the swf to simply disappear..
              • 4. Re: Intermittent swf loading in IE
                AttaBoy2 Community Member

                Lonesome61 wrote:

                 

                I am baffled by IE's failure to consistently load my swf in the title area of a webpage. Sometimes it loads; sometimes it doesn't. F5 (refresh) will sometimes toggle it (make it appear if it didn't load or make it disappear if it did); sometimes it has no effect at all. A sample page can be accessed here It appears to work fine in other browsers. It is just IE that gives me the problem.

                  When put through a validator it  finds 1 error       

                "Line 43, Column 57:         Attribute "onresize" is not a valid attribute. Did you mean "noresize" or "onreset"?

                <body onload="AdjustMenu('color','true',0,58)" onresize="AdjustMenu('color','true',0,58)">

                You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element.

                I'm sure there's a good chance the onresize has nothing to do with the problem"

                 

                For me the problem only happens when I click on Ceremonies then Ceremonies.  Are your menu bar and flame 2 seperate swf's?  Maybe if you could show some code it might help.  I suspect it's an html problem but don't know.