Problem with Active X Workaround

[etruthflash]

Greets,

Using Adobe's javascript workaround for Microsoft's "Click to Activate" Active
X issue.

PROBLEM: For any floating ads using "wmode" "transparent" if an Internet
Explorer 6 web user goes to Tools>Internet Options and does anything while on
that page then the IE browser is rendered useless. No links will work. No new
address typed in the Address Bar will work, etc. They have to restart the
browser.

If I use the same Flash .swf file with the old embed procedure, of course I
get the "Click to Activate," I have no browser problems if I go to
Tools>Internet Options.

What's up with this? Thanks!

-Mark

[etruthflash]

By the way my page is [url]www.etruth.com[/url].

Also I found a few other solutions at: <a target=_blank
class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://activecontent.blogspot.com/.">http://activecontent.blogspot.com/.</
a> It does look like "IE would request the swf twice, once for the hidden div,
and again when the JavaScript wrote the contents back out again."

I wanted to use the official Adobe/Macromedia workaround, but like I said it
seems to crash IE in some cases. Hopefully someone from Adobe will weigh in on
this thread.

-Mark

[Jeckyl]

NEVER EVER use wmode=transparent. It is INCREDIBLY buggy. This has nothing
to do with Microsoft and the new click-to-activate activex control features.
wmode-transparent has really never worked properly and reliably and causes
such weird and obscure bugs (that seem unrelated to transparency - like
movie playing upside down) that its best to put in the effort to redesign to
avoid it, rather than use it.
--
Jeckyl

[etruthflash]

Jeckyl,

Don't use wmode transparent? How would I do floating homepage ads with a transparent background then?

-Mark

[Jeckyl]

> Don't use wmode transparent? How would I do floating homepage ads with a

> transparent background then?

Put them in a separate window .. or use opaque mode which is not as buggy as
transparent mode. Or better still .. redesign your site so you do not
require the use of a feature which basically does not reliably work
(transparent SWF movies) (ie do not have floating homepage ads with
transparent background .. do something else instead).
--
Jeckyl

[aniebel]

Sorry, I'm not fluent with how to make floating ads but I'm curious...

How does one prepare a floating ad for another site then? Will hosting sites
have their pages set up so that one can use the opaque mode or is this done a
completely different way?

[etruthflash]

Separate window?

Opaque won't work because the site has dhtml drop downs and several other
Flash ads that load in random positions. For some reason transparent ensures
the floating ad will be on top of everything.

Can't redesign the site, and I am asked specifically to do these ads which
interact with elements on the page. Besides, why do agencies like <a
target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://2hypemedia.com/">http://2hypemedia.com/</a> not avoid transparent
mode? Adobe/Macromedia says wmode transparent is supported: <a target=_blank
class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge
href="http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/releasenotes/player/rn_6.html

What">[url]http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/releasenotes/player/rn_6.html[/url]

What</a> about my original question about javascript and Active X workaround?
Anyone know why Adobe's solution causes this bug with IE or if Adobe will
release an alternate workaround?

Thanks, -Mark

[Jeckyl]

Opaque also lets DHTML work with SWF content in the same way as transparent.

> javascript and Active X workaround?

You may be able to do the whole thing via some javascript/dhtml method ..
I'm not sure. But you still won't be able to use transparent wmode due to
its bugs

> Anyone know why Adobe's solution causes this bug with IE or if Adobe will
> release an alternate workaround?

There is no work-around ... its not really anything to do with a particular
'solution' .. transparent mode has never worked properly and has always
been buggy. You'll have to break the news to your client.
--
Jeckyl