sure, i think that you are making a mistake though not testing for a
flash version number.
if you have flash 8 content, and you user has flash player 7 (or
lower) - your method would still embed the swf into the page, and the
user's flash player would attempt to play that swf... often resulting
in very strange things happening. maybe some stuff won't show up,
maybe it will show up partially, maybe it will just be an empty
box... it depends on the content.
i completely understand your wanting to roll your own thing, that's
why I wrote swfobject in the first place - all of the existing
solutions weren't that great - overly bulky or too complicated to
use, or sometimes just plain didn't work for the situations i needed.
that said, i think you should take a good look at the whole package -
it's very small and super easy to use, and lets you rest well knowing
that your users don't get wacky content showing up. We use it on tons
of high profile websites every day, and thousands of other people do
as well (go and pick just about any flash site or flash movie these
days and view source, i bet 8/10 times you'll see swfobject there in
the source).
it's just one file, not an entire framework or app to maintain.
On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:51 PM, Merrill, Jason wrote:
FYI - I looked in more detail at swfobject as was suggested and the
only
think I needed to pull out of it and plug into our other detection and
embedding scripts was in the catch/try statements:
axo = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash");
Not specifying a version number. Thanks to Geoff who suggested I just
pull out part of swfobject.
Re: swfobject suggestions, I think I was really trying to get down
to a
"teach me to fish, don't give me a fish" kind of a thing because of
our
IT requirements, but I found the code I needed so I can fish. Thanks.
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organizational Effectiveness
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Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Simple Flash player detection without
versioning?
swfobject is only 6.7kb... it doesn't get much lighter than that.
if you *really* need something smaller (which sounds like a
ridiculous need to me)
Before you actually think I have a "ridiculous need" - I'm not
talking
about filesize necessarily, I'm also talking about controlling
large
amounts of sourcecode - in this case, code we didn't write - or at
least
being able to understand/navigate all of it. And this is code that
will
be propagated to other systems and servers. I work for a Bank, you
can
imagine what that can mean from an IT perspective. :)
Shoot me for not wanting to use swfobject out of the box and roll my
own
- but I will take a look at what we could pull out of it as you
suggested. Thanks,
Jason Merrill
Bank of America
Learning & Organizational Effectiveness
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