Hi, I'm new to the site, so hope this is the right section. I have screenshot galleries on my site that use js and swf files. I have two problems -

1. If you have never visited the page before, it may produce an error which will then offer alt content. If you refresh the page, the file will then load.

2. It loads after the rest of the page and therefore takes longer than I would like. How can I get it to load faster?

There is also embedded video on the page, so don't know if this in any way affects the loading speed. If you could just point me in the right direction to resolve these issues, would greatly appreciate it. The simplest way the better as I'm new to this.

Simple way? Scrap crap flash. Use HTML5.

Browser Support for HTML5

HTML5 is not yet an official standard, and no browsers have full HTML5 support.

But all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer) continue to add new HTML5 features to their latest versions.

HTML5 Introduction

Using HTML5 would be nice if fully supported.....

Ebrocca do you have a link to your page where we could take a look?

Originally Posted by vultren

Simple way? Scrap crap flash. Use HTML5.

Well, that would certainly be a lot of work to change over 50 pages and the flash functions beautifully. I gave this project to a friend because at the time there seemed to be no solution to getting it to work smoothly using HTML and js and unbeknownst to me, he decided to use flash.

Originally Posted by Giselle

Ebrocca do you have a link to your page where we could take a look?

Thanks for taking a look. The following is a sample page. If you want more examples follow the Features link to the directory of Video pages. Because I'm new to the forum, I can't post a link for your convenience.

gamebytesandbots.com/video/vmetro.html

I went to the link you provided and looked at your page source, your coding for the swf file is missing. If you reload the page, the video does work like you mentioned......

Coding:

Your code should look something like this: 

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" id="Yourfilename" ALIGN="">
 <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="Yourfilename.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#333399> <EMBED src="Yourfilename.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#333399 WIDTH="320" HEIGHT="240" NAME="Yourfilename" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED> </OBJECT>

From:

Flash Tip Embedding

Here's a couple of more links:

Flash Tutorial - HTML Code


How To Embed SWF In HTML Code

Hopefully this will help you, earlier I tried to make a swf file myself for the coding but it's been so many years since I have made one.....

Thanks Giselle. I'll check out those links.