Alistapart.com is one of those sites that has made a real name for itself. You know when you’re searching for something in Google and you get a list of results and you’re trying to scanning down to see which to try first, you see a favorite and think phew, I’ll be right with them. Well that’s how I feel about Alistapart.
So today I was having trouble getting a clients html detect script for flash to work with firefox. I could see the flash working fine if I just opened it, but not on the page. I’m no flash programmer so I went looking for help.
Google took me to Flash Satay, a technique using dummy flash files, well that part wasn’t for me. I have no flash expertise and I am, for now, quite happy to leave that technology up the to those with artistic talents. The article was older so not uptodate with the new browsers like firefox so I decided to check out the comments section.
There were 27 pages of comments for this one article and I didn’t want to wade through them all so started at 27 and worked backwards – to page 26! There I found Javay, a nice compromise of the two, and hey presto, up it all came.
The only tricky bit was knowing which codebase to use. I was saved by having that in my old, defunct script and used:
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
but you might need to talk to the flash developer to get the right one.
You can see it working at the Asset Magazine site.
You rock Sarah!
This site is FULL of awesome information!
Cheers
Marc
The article was very old by the time I found it. Seems this might be the newer version: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashembedcagematch/