Yet Another Silly Flash Header Issue

Wow, how can something so simply turn out to be such a pain... :(

I'm throwing up a flash banner and have it working fine in FireFox, however it is not loading in IE. I have followed all of the recommendations for modifying the Javascript for proper IE loading. I have run the Javascript Flash/HTML code generator. I have tried absolute paths and relative paths to the Javascript file and SWF file. I have placed both files in the root. I have done and redone everything 4 times over.

When I first got it going in Firefox I was like this :cool:

When I checked it in IE I was like this :blink:

After hours of reading and trying different things I was like this :frusty:

After exhausting my options I'm now like this :censored:

Here's my site link. Perhaps there is something REALLY simple that I have not covered:

http://www.mach5audio.com/zen

Can someone PLEASE PLEASE have a quick look and point out the obvious to me?

Best regards,
Mark

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpost.php?p=266210&postcount=7
Instructions at post above work fine..currently you are calling javascript
from wrong place in your template.

Ok, thanks for the sanity check. I'll look things over again tomorrow once I get rid of this headache...

Ok, the headache is gone and so is my problem. Thanks muchly for steering me in the right direction.

This is how I look once again :cool:

Best,
Mark

Well done!!
:clap:
One small point however..check background colour of your header,
slightly dark than background of your flash image.

If you use flash, make sure you follow this to get valid html:
http://www.designlegion.com/rave/flash-with-xhtml-standards-satay-method/

Yeah, thanks a bunch for the info guys.

Best,
Mark

I am having a similar problem:

I have a flash header which was working in both IE7 and FireFox2. I installed the ImageHandler2.0 mod and now my flash header no longer works in IE7.

I didn't overwrite any files with the installation, and can not find how to make the flash header work again in IE.

My site is www.victorytoner.com/catalog. (ZC v1.3.7.1)

Thanks in advance for your help!

Just visited your site, using IE7, flash header working fine.
Visited again using Firefox, flash header working.

Yes, I tried it on a different computer and it works. I then found that my flash player for IE7 is broken and I have not been able to find a fix for it.

IE7 running on Vista Home Premium. I upgraded to the latest version of Flash Player at Adobe's site, and now Flash player no longer works. All I get is blank space where the Flash file should be.

Has anyone else run into this problem? (I realize that it's not directly ZC related, but hopefully someone here has an answer.)

Hello

I've also got a problem with Internet Explorer and Flash. I've got a small Flash file I want to put on my main page. I've tested the Flash outside of Zen Cart, and it works fine in all browsers. But in my Zen Cart, it doesn't work for Internet Explorer (I've tested it on 6 and 7). But it shows up fine in Firefox and Opera.

Searching through the forums, I found the suggested Javascript solution, so tried that - same result - works in everything but IE.

Does anyone have any ideas?

http://www.hiphopfitnesswear.co.uk/shop/

Many thanks!
Jo

PS This is my first post, please be kind!

PS This is my first post, please be kind!
Sending PM

Thanks.

Worked out where to place the .swf file to get IE to work.

Jo

JoCanDo:

Thanks.
Worked out where to place the .swf file to get IE to work.
Jo
For other members wanting to know fix...
.swf file goes in
home/root folder, not template folder, for IE to find file.