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1. rubeenmiller
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hello,

   I have two flash banners on my blog in the right sidebar: http://www.understandingthesecret.com

   The banners work in Firefox, but do not appear in either version 6 or 7 of Internet Explorer.

   Can anyone help me fix this so that they appear in IE as well.?

   One thing I know is that the banner itelf will appear if I open it up itself in IE via it's url: http://understandingthesecret.com/wp-content/uploads/Secret180x150.swf

   Thanks in advance for any help!

   Rubeen Miller

2. rubeenmiller
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I replaced the flash banners with gif banners until I figure our a solution. I am actively trying to find one, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears.

   From what I have gathered so far, putting flash in WP has issues in IE because of some sort of Active X problem.

   Thanks!

3. rubeenmiller
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I haven't heard form anyone yet and would really appreciate some help.

   I should clarify that the banners I am referring to are clickable flash banners. Anyone know a simple work around for the IE flash issue for this?

   Thanks,

   Rubeen

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   From what I have gathered so far, putting flash in WP has issues in IE because of some sort of Active X problem.

   Thats not entirely true. Putting a flash OBJECT inside a WP file is no harder than putting a flash OBJECT in any other page.

   Display is another thing, and IE's new way of handling activation has nothing to do with WP, and vice versa. In other words, that "click here to activate" is an IE issue not a WP issue.

   If you are having difficulty with the objects you need to share the code you are using to display them. Theres no science involved. See this post for the proper way:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/97542?replies=9

   and like I said, if you need more help youre going to have to share what you are currently using.

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5. rubeenmiller
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Whooami,

   Happy New Year and thanks for the assistance.

   Here is the code I am using for the clickable flash banner:

   <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" ALIGN="" height="150" width="180"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Secret180x150.swf"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><param name="FlashVars" value="link=http://www.secret-biz.com/millerfamily/b/1214"><EMBED FlashVars="link=http://www.secret-biz.com/millerfamily/b/1214" height="150" width="180" src="http://understandingthesecret.com/wp-content/uploads/Secret180x150.swf" quality=high ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED></OBJECT>

   As I said, it works great in FireFox, but does not show up in IE.

   I saw on a post that you mentioned a Javascript work around, but I have not been able to find it.

   Any recommendations for getting this to work in IE?

   Thanks,

   Rubeen

6. whooami
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Secret180x150.swf">

   thats not the path to that file.
   assuming you are index.php, it will be looking for it in the / directory

   Use the FULL URL to the file. Not the path, and certainly NOT the wrong path.

   <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://understandingthesecret.com/wp-content/uploads/Secret180x150.swf">

   secondly, You do NOT need that embed crap.

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