Philip, Thanks again for your replies. You answered the technical, as well as explaining background and developments on the "click to activate" that I knew nothing about. I was seeing the "click to activate" using the static method on a couple of computers running IE6, so that was why I tried to go back to the dynamic method. Those computers must be very far behind on IE patching.
I went back and re-coded all my pages for the static method, and now the pages load very smoothly. Case closed, and I am happy. Craig On Apr 13, 10:18 pm, Philip Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: > 'click to activate' is a thing of the past... microsoft settled that lawsuit > in 2007, then patched IE in 2008 to remove the click requirement: > > "As of April 2008, Microsoft has now removed the activation behavior from > Internet Explorer." > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/bb969055.aspx > > - philip > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:06 PM, craig16229 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Philip, > > > Thanks for the detailed reply. I wanted to avoid the "click to > > activate control" that the static leaves, so maybe the answer is to > > revert back to 1.5. I am looking at my index page, though, and it is > > relatively short and only 3kb, and my .swf is only 86kb. > > > Craig > > > On Apr 13, 9:55 pm, Philip Hutchison <[email protected]> wrote: > > > swfobject 2's *dynamic* publishing option (swfobject.embed) uses an > > > onload/domready event to load the SWF. pages with lots of markup will > > take > > > longer to load, which means it will take longer for the SWF to be written > > to > > > the DOM. this also means that pages with lots of markup (or a very large > > > SWF) may have a flash of unstyled content while loading. > > > > swfobject 1.x allowed inline scripting that would load the SWF before the > > > DOM finished loading, thereby preventing the (short) delay caused by > > waiting > > > for the entire DOM to load. > > > > try using swfobject's *static* publishing method and see if it helps. > > > >http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation > > > > - philip > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:11 PM, craig16229 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have seen several reports of this problem, but have not found > > > > anything that resolves this behavior: the flicker of a white box > > > > before my Flash content is embeded using SWFObject 2.1. So far, I > > > > know it is happening in IE6, IE7, and Safari 3.x > > > > > I recenty rebuilt my site, and upgraded to 2.1 at the same time. I > > > > did not experience with with 1.4. Would someone mind taking a look > > > > and let me know what I have missed? I would really appreciate it. > > > > > The site ishttp://www.craigwasselphotoart.com > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Craig- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
