I have noticed that my AS2 swf that I load into an AS3 swf with SWFBridge sometimes doesnt load. I have usually loaded the page several times and it works fine then sometimes it does not load. When I quit Safari and restart it it will work again. I havent noticed this happening on a Windows PC but only on Macbook OSX in both Safari and Mozilla.
I havent done any real debugging yet but has anyone got any leads?
thanks
This is a long shot, but I'm wondering if your server is compressing the SWF files and they're being corrupted at some point, or improperly decompressed on the Mac? If you can, make sure nothing is being gzipped, either by the server or by whatever you're using to publish the SWF files.
I've seen a similar issue where compressed files served by Apache won't render client-side... perhaps because Apache refuses to send a Content-Length header for compressed data. I think Apache's issue is that it doesn't know whether the Content-Length should reflect the length of the data stream or the uncompressed data, and assumes that the client might make a different assumption. OS X might be depending on this header.
If I'm misreading your explanation and sometimes it doesn't work the first time you load it into the browser than you can probably rule this out.
First check if it is being cached on the browser and what the cache settings on the problem browser are. Try changing those settings to see if it makes a difference if you see there is caching. If you see that it is somehow related to caching issues with those browsers you can take steps to prevent the swf from being cached. There are several ways you could do that.
The reason I suspect the browser cache is the problem is because you said that it works when you restart the browser as opposed to it works when you restart the server. If it wasn't being cached it would probably tend to not work once and then work the next time without the browser restart. Its entirely possible you have some other problem though.