What is going on?? I just bought the last version of Dreamweaver and when I open anything up in it that contains swfobject, it wants to change everything to AC_RunActiveContent because swfobject doesn't work in the latest Exploder browser...
Is this true?! Someone forgot to send me that memo.
Microsoft bought out the EOLAS patent and got rid of the "Click to Activate" in the latest updates to IE thereby rendering the java.write unnecessary except for those who didn't update.
So, swfobject progressed into a new version 2.0 that has:
SWFObject 2 offers two distinct methods to embed Flash Player content:
- The static publishing method embeds both Flash content and alternative content using standards compliant markup, and uses JavaScript to resolve the issues that markup alone cannot solve
The dynamic publishing method is based on marked up alternative content and uses JavaScript to replace this content with Flash content if the minimal Flash Player version is installed and enough JavaScript support is available (similar like previous versions of SWFObject and UFO)
- is back to tags.
- is the swfobject1.5 javascript.write to a div method.
I don't fully know what we Flash guys have agreed to yet as a "standard" because I see that we'll still want "dynamic" for those unwilling to upgrade IE but swfobject is now recommending option 1 for inclusion of Flash.
confused? http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation