Flash not displaying on FF

[ideasgirl]

Hi guys,

On this site: designedforme.com there's a flash banner which is showed on IE7 and Safari but not FF. Any idea why?

Also, if anyone can give me a hint to make the banner behind the dropdown menu since the options are hiding behind it?

[kuroi]

Check your site's error log. Are there references to a missing file crossdomain.xml? If so, you have fallen into a trap set by tighter loading requirements introduced by a recent Flash update. There's more about thios on the Adobe site.

[ideasgirl]

No, that file is not on the error log.

[kuroi]

There's some rather odd markup around the flash movie. The validator is highlighting </td /> and </tr /> tags immediately after it, but no sign of a table - and even then, these wouldn't be valid. Might they be left over from a cut and paste? Could they be interfering with the object tag in an unpredicable way?

[ideasgirl]

Ok, took them out, but still not showing. Now the validation stays in a loop.

[kuroi]

How are you loading your flash? swfobject?

[ideasgirl]

Not sure what you mean by "loading" (to the server or to the page?).

I'm just inserting the html code to the define page of main_page. It always worked for me before. I also tried it by the template page of index but same results. The site owner told me this didn't happened when she had previous version of ZC. Maybe is a problem with the swf file itself?

[kuroi]

To the browser/page. There isn't a single set of HTML that will work across all browsers. And then there's the added complication that some versions of IE also throw out DirectX checks as to whether the viewer wants the content to be loaded. So Flash is usually loaded by a piece of javascript that detects the specific browser being used and adds appropriate markup to the page while it is loading.

swfObject is easily the most popular and most referenced solution for this.

[ideasgirl]

English please?

[kuroi]

For English, more eloquently and expertly put than could I, look here.

Howabout Math:

Pure HTML + Flash = extreme frustration

HTML + SWFObject + Flash = contentment