Most Reliable/Shortest Flash Activation Script

**Laphan** · Jun 27 '08, 07:07 PM

Re: Most Reliable/Shortest Flash Activation Script

Many thanks everybody

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Laphan wrote:

Hi All
>
I've used about 5 different javascripts to sort out this annoying habit
that
IE has re asking for a click to activate on flash files in my web pages,
but
none seem to do the trick.
>
Does anybody have a definitive one that isn't a foot long in code?
>
ps: What I tend to do is also embed an IMG tag line within the
object/embed
code as a graceful picture fallback if the browser doesn't have flash
player - would this effect your code?

The key here (and it might seem hard to believe) is that the function
you call to write to the innerHTML, *MUST* be in a separate JS file.
Here's a simple example with minimalist tags and no feature tests or
null object tests:

<html><head>
<script src="ext.js"></script>
</head><body>
<div id="mydiv"></div>
<script>
var myembed="<objec t bla bla bla bla bla>";
myExternalEmbed Func("mydiv",my embed);
</script>
</body>
</html>

The ext.js file will do something like this:

function myExternalEmbed Func(targ,str)
{
var t=document.getE lementById(targ );
t.innerHTML=str ;
}

This behaviour you're seeing is usually referred to as the EOLAS
problem. It doesn't help you much right now, but Microsoft are backing
out the change they made to IE6/7 that causes this. That's in a future
update though.

Most Reliable/Shortest Flash Activation Script

Most Reliable/Shortest Flash Activation Script

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