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Dynamic Embed SWFObject not loading in IE 5.5 #25

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Loading the test page for dynamic embed in IE 5.5/Win 2000.
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Alternative content is being displayed instead of flash content even if 
the correct version of the Flash plugin is installed. Static embed method 
does work as expected.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
IE 5.5, Windows 2000 SP2

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jjiggy...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2007 at 12:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I should have added the testsuite page link to make it easier for those reading 
this. Sorry. http://www.swffix.org/swfobject/testsuite/test_dynamic.html

Original comment by jjiggy...@gmail.com on 27 Dec 2007 at 6:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I understand that this looks like a bug, but it isn't.

What happens is that on older Windows systems with older IE browsers sometimes 
the
Flash version cannot be retrieved using JavaScript, which means that SWFObject 
will
not come into action.

When using the static method, this means that we are not going to help the 
markup, so
in this case if a player is available, it will always attempt to play Flash 
content,
even if it is aimed for a higher plug-in version.

When using the dynamic method, it means that alternative content is the base 
content,
and this will only be replaced when enough Flash AND JavaScript support is 
available
(in your report the latter is not the case, because it doesn't allow us to read 
the
fp version).

Please note that the two publishing methods are not designed to create 
consistent
results, they both have a different basic philosophy and therefore in some 
extreme
cases might render different results.

Original comment by bobbyvandersluis on 2 Jan 2008 at 10:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Looks like IE5.5 is now working perfectly for me in your 2.1 test suite. Nice 
work
and thank you!

Original comment by jjiggy...@gmail.com on 6 Jun 2008 at 5:00