Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Flash Quick Tip - IE displaying different flash file then Firefox?

Are you trying to troubleshoot why you are seeing a different swf flash file in one browser vs another? This problem was brought to my attention the other day at work. A client was seeing an incorrect and different flash banner then we were seeing. No one had realized they were using IE (Internet Explorer) while we typically use Firefox or Chrome. Once I realized this difference, I new just where to look. The code that goes in the HTML and loads the flash includes and object tag which IE uses to load the flash swf file as well as an embed tag which other browsers such as Chrome, Firefox or Safari use to load the file. Both of these tags have a line containing the path to the swf file. Obviously you want these parameters to match and if they don't, you will see different things when viewed in different browsers. Look in the html for some code similar to the following and be sure both flash file names match. To make it easy you can even search for swf as that will be extention on the flash files and will take you right to the file name parameters.

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