Weird flash/firefox problem

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Weird flash/firefox problem

Can't get it to play

dublinmike

10:36 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi folks,

I'm a bit stumped! My flash site is playing fine on my local machine in IE AND Firefox, but will not play from the remote server in Firefox, it's perfect with IE.

I have wasted hours trying to figure out what's wrong. I've tested this on 3 machines...all the same.

This is something really stupid isn't it?

Mike

dublinmike

10:41 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

sorry, I meant to say the Flash content won't play, evverything else is as it should be.

BlobFisk

10:51 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi dublinmike,

Is the flash movie loading and the content isn't working? Or is the movie not loading at all?

Also, are you dynamically pulling data from the server?

dublinmike

11:09 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi Bob,

Movie is not loading at all.

BlobFisk

11:10 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

Can you post your <object> code and we can see if it's a problem there....

Are you using an embed tag also?

dublinmike

11:22 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

thank you for looking at this for me, it's my designer friends code and I'm a little out of my depth;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>

<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
</object>
<!--> <![endif]>
</object></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="716" height="62">

FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
</object>
<!--> <![endif]>
</object>

BlobFisk

11:25 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

First thing that I notice is that there are no <embed> tags which Firefox still needs....

dublinmike

11:27 am on Nov 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks, I didn't realise that when it plays fine from the local machine.