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Embedding flash Wimpy player so that it works in Firefox

Answer 1

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I would very much recommend using swfobject, that takes care of detecting the flash player, embedding the proper code for that browser and gives you a nice way to provide fallback content. Also, it'll look alot cleaner in your code!

Like so:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>SWFObject dynamic embed - step 3</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
    swfobject.embedSWF("myContent.swf", "myContent", "300", "120", "9.0.0");
    </script>

  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="myContent">
      <p>Alternative content</p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

grapefrukt 2009-01-15 16:53:14

Answer 2

+1 A:

It turned out that Wimpy player version I used was slightly outdated and wouldn't work with Flash 10. This is from their support page:

Only the latest version of Wimpy products work with Flash plugin version 10.

Older versions of Wimpy will no longer work for users who have upgraded their Flash Plugin to version 10. This is due to the plugin being more strict with respect to the way that Actionscript code is interpreted within the player.

Upgrade from minor version number is free. After upgrading Wimpy is back again in operation.

Michał Rudnicki 2009-01-21 17:01:15

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