On 17 Oct 2006 at 14:07, Max Carlson wrote:
> I and the rest of the team would prefer to be using SWFObject - we
> certainly don't want a situation that prevents _any_ users from seeing
> Laszlo apps. There are a few things that are stopping us from using it:
Max, pleased to hear that ..
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On your first point ..
"SWFObject ExpressInstall uses an actionscript stub to do player
version detection, which has to be compiled into each application"
.. a recent posting in
SWFObject forum by Geoff Stearns confirms that this ExpressInstall functionality is now
achieved by a second small swf movie placed in same location as compiled movie. So I
understand that there is now no need to compile this script into frame 1 in movies. Clean.
v1.4.4 is the latest stable build:
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject1-4.zip
v2.0 is available for beta testing:
http://blog.deconcept.com/code/swfobject2.0/
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On your second point ..
"We have an elaborate scheme that doesn't use the ActiveX/Java
bridge
for Flash/browser communication, which allow _setCanvasAttribute to work
in many more browsers, including Safari."
.. I'm not the best ActiveX/Java coder .. and I don't
have a Mac for testing in Safari.
I can see a way for possibly emulating _setCanvasAttribute by extracting some embed.js
functions to work with SWFObject. This would ensure backwards compatibility with deployed
lzapps. I could play with that experiment.
But you could also post a question at SWFObject mail list. Geoff Stearns is very helpful.
d~l
