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Safari, Opera & Chrome fail to show embedded flash elements?

Asked by: Youghurt

Hi guys,

I have a website where my menu is made out of embedded flash icons.

My problem is, that the menu and all other flash items works just fine, except in Safari, Opera and the new Google Chrome browser.?

In these browsers, only the first out of 7 menu icons shows up.? Very odd?

I don't know if I'm missing something? But it works fine in IE, Firefox, Netscape and so forth...

I should tell you that I am using Umbraco as a backendsystem, where I embed the flashmenu in the main page.
But this shouldn't overide or interfere with the embedded flash, as far as I know?

Any ideas?


<object width="840" height="150">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewUserIcon/NewUserIcon.swf"/>
                &nbsp;
                &nbsp;
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/MyUserIcon/MyUserIcon.swf"/>
                &nbsp;
                &nbsp;
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewsIcon/NewsIcon.swf"/>
                &nbsp;
                &nbsp;
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashKnapper/RingtonesIcon/RingtonesIcon.swf"/>
                &nbsp;
                &nbsp;
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/GamesIcon/GamesIcon.swf"/>
                &nbsp;
                &nbsp;
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashKnapper/WallpapersIcon/WallpapersIcon.swf"/>
                &nbsp;
                &nbsp;
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/VideoIcon/VideoIcon.swf"/>
            </object>
                                  
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2008-11-27 at 08:04:34ID23940561
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safari

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chrome

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opera

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Web Browsers

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Answers

 

by: YoughurtPosted on 2008-11-28 at 01:53:19ID: 23054567

Anyone? :'(

 

by: knoniePosted on 2008-11-29 at 02:07:37ID: 23059192

This code seems somewhat incomplete.

I tried it at my end, replacing your SWF file name with my file, and it works fine in Chrome, but doesn't show up in IE7.

You see, for maximum compatibility, you must provide file path and other parameters both in <object> and <embed> tags, while in your case, the file path is only available in <embed> and not in <objects>, so the browsers reading <object> won't show anything.

Please generate your HTML code again, using some good HTML editor, e.g. Drwamweaver.

A sample code is pasted below:

:-)

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="200" height="180">
  <param name="movie" value="flash_example.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  <embed src="flash_example.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="180"></embed>
</object>

                                              
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by: YoughurtPosted on 2008-12-02 at 05:00:20ID: 23076439

Thx for the reply..

But the object contains 8 seperate flashmovies, which probably is the big problem.

Do I have to split the movies up then?

Like this: 

  
<!--1-->
          <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="840" height="150">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewUserIcon/1.swf"/>
                  </object>           
                 
 
<!--2-->
            <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="840" height="150">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewUserIcon/2.swf"/>
                  </object>   
 
 
<!--3-->
            <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="840" height="150">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
                <embed wmode="transparent" class="flashmenusize" src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewUserIcon/3.swf"/>
                  </object>  

                                              
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by: knoniePosted on 2008-12-02 at 05:18:36ID: 23076547

If you have created these buttons in Adobe Flash, then you can create that all in a single swf, but looks like you have used something else to generate these flash.

Anyway, you can create a table with 8 rows, and put each swf in separate cell <td> of the table, to avoid any alignment issue.

In your code above, you missed to put:
<param name="movie" value="~file-path/flash-file.swf" />

Also, make sure to insert the width and height of your individual buttons, because you have provided width as 840, which is the entire menu's width.

See the sample code below. Check it in your browser and check if it works. You need some adjustments to match your width/height in this code.

:-)

<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td>
    <!-- button 1 -->
    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="200" height="180">
  <param name="movie" value="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewUserIcon.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  <embed src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/NewUserIcon.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="180"></embed>
</object>
</td>
    <td><!-- button 2 -->
    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="200" height="180">
  <param name="movie" value="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/MyUserIcon.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="high" />
  <embed src="/css/img/buttons/flashknapper/MyUserIcon.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="180"></embed>
</object></td>
    <td><!-- button 3 --></td>
    <td><!-- button 4 --></td>
    <td><!-- button 5 --></td>
    <td><!-- button 6 --></td>
    <td><!-- button 7 --></td>
    <td><!-- button 8 --></td>
  </tr>
</table>

                                              
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by: YoughurtPosted on 2008-12-02 at 05:37:12ID: 23076668

Sadly I am running out of time, and I can't get your solution to work right now, because I don't have the time.. And my "test" membership runs out tommorow.. But thx for your help..

You will get your credit.. :-)

Have a nice day.

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