I have an existing flash movie on one of my websites: http://www.patriciawells.com that has been working fine up till now.

Downloaded IE 8 Beta 2 this morning and now it doesn't work at all - - either from the website or standalone on my PC.

Website displays an x in the box (like a pix is missing on a website).

Called Microsoft support and they basically told me to take a long walk on a short pier....

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

JohnJ

No offense, but just what do you expect of a MS BETA piece of software ???

How did you put the Flash into your page ?

LadynRed,

Thanks for the response.

Actually I didn't expect a lot from Microsoft but since they provided a free support telephone number for their Beta (and I've had trouble with IE releases in the past) - I thought I'd get a jump on their bugs this time instead of getting a call from a user telling that the site is broken... I've been in software development for a bunch of big development houses over the years and when we released a Beta we'd kill ourselves to fix any bugs before the release but Microsoft just really didn't seem to care to talk to me. Guess they've all got so much stock now that they don't have to work any more.

I used the following to insert the flash (generated by Dreamweaver naturally)...

<td><object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="1000" height="195">
<param name="movie" value="home/flash/NewFlash-01-22-07-w1000.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="home/flash/NewFlash-01-22-07-w1000.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1000" height="195"></embed>
</object>
</td>

Just for your information I always publish my swf files as Version 5 (I've got lots of casual users on this site. Actually, they redefine 'not computer savvy' and may very well have computers that haven't been updated in years and years....)

I recompiled the flash to version 7 and tried it again and it failed the same way so that doesn't appear to be the problem.

I went to MSN.com and their flash (in the upper left) worked correctly; then I went to utube and their videos also did not play....

I'm a bit stumped but I'm starting to think the problem belongs to Microsoft; not me.....

Thanks

John

ps: the smiley face in the code example isn't really a smiley - - it should be a : D 2

You might try another method of putting the flash in the page. I'd try something like swfObject, I've never had a bit of trouble with it, but I have had LOTS of trouble with Dreamweaver's code for flash.

swfObject and other methods are outlined here: http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...audio-web.html

LadynRed,

Thanks for your help.

I'll imbed the swf file with swfObject as you suggest.

John