"Click to Activate" solution! (AKA: Ugly Box problem)

[[Paul Ferrie]]

IE sucks in playing .swf file.

Playing is not the issue.
Embedding is.
Can the moders close this thread please.

[halil]

One question.

The "Insert Flash" in Adobe Dreamweaver CS 4 uses a (modified) Swfobject. But it still results in a "Click to activate...". Thus, I'm using CS3 just to insert Flash. Does anyone else experience this shortcoming? Or is this special to us here? Or a fix for DW CS4?

Ok, I know there are/may be better solutions, but DW really automates it, and this is especially good for smaller projects.

[[Paul Ferrie]]

One question.

The "Insert Flash" in Adobe Dreamweaver CS 4 uses a (modified) Swfobject. But it still results in a "Click to activate...". Thus, I'm using CS3 just to insert Flash. Does anyone else experience this shortcoming? Or is this special to us here? Or a fix for DW CS4?

Ok, I know there are/may be better solutions, but DW really automates it, and this is especially good for smaller projects.

Yeah i spotted a thread on another forum earlier that had other issue but i noticed the page they where using was this page generated by DWCS4. i wonder if there is an underlying issue with this.

[Dez]

IE sucks in playing .swf file.

From my very limited understanding, .swf files are never played, it's the .flv's that are played. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

[[Paul Ferrie]]

your wrong. you need the swf to play the flv.

[Dez]

Yep, but nothing plays the .swf file - the only thing that 'plays' in this context, are the .flv's ;-)

[Rabies]

Yep, but nothing plays the .swf file - the only thing that 'plays' in this context, are the .flv's ;-)

You're wrong. SWF files usually contain a timeline. It certainly does "play". That's why there is play(); and stop(); as the most basic ActionScript most people learn first.