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Flash in Firefox not showing (sometimes)

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:46 am
by shiznatix
Ok here is the situation. I have 2 websites, both over https, lets call them https://one.com and https://two.com

I have a load of flash banners stored on two.com and I want to show them on both two.com and one.com in a big list. For some reason this isn't working on Firefox (but is working on every other browser). I have this code to show the banners:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shoc ... on=8,0,0,0" width="100" height="100" id="Banner Name 120x600">
<param name="movie" value="https://two.com/tmp/bannerAds/banner-na ... ample.com/" />
</object>
Why does this not work on FF? I have tried the latest beta and the latest stable version on Windows (haven't gotten a chance to try on any other OS) but I can't see why it would not work. Any suggestions?

Re: Flash in Firefox not showing (sometimes)

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 5:39 am
by Eran
Internet explorer handles flash objects differently than other browsers
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashembedcagematch/

Re: Flash in Firefox not showing (sometimes)

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:12 am
by shiznatix
Good read but sadly none of the methods described works. The only one that was able to get ANY output from the browser was:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="300" height="120">
<param name="movie" value="https://two.com/tmp/bannerAds/{$item.fi ... ample.com/" />
<p>Alternative content</p>
</object>
Which produced "Alternative content"

Is there something with having a cross domain flash file load over https?

Re: Flash in Firefox not showing (sometimes)

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:51 am
by Eran
This might be too obvious, but do you have flash installed on this Firefox?

Re: Flash in Firefox not showing (sometimes)

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:00 am
by shiznatix
pytrin wrote:This might be too obvious, but do you have flash installed on this Firefox?
:D a necessary question, but yes, I have flash installed on this FF. Flash works everywhere else, it is just my implementations that don't work (but do on all other browsers).

Re: Flash in Firefox not showing (sometimes)

Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:20 am
by Eran
If you noticed, in the article they talk about the position of the movie name parameter - IE has it as a <param> tag and other browsers put it in the object declaration. The code you showed here still has only the IE version. Try the Satay approach mentioned near the end of the article