Hello,

I've encountered a little issue whereas my Flash object does not appear in any browser except Internet Explorer. Any idea how to fix this issue? Help would be greatly appreciated.

The message displayed is "Failure... <etcetera>" as displayed in my code.

Here is my HTML code:

{if $page_alias == 'home'}
        <!-- Display Flash Header -->
                <div id="flash">
            <div id="flashLogo"></div>
            <div id="flashObject">
                <object class="flash" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,24" width="720" height="309">
                    <param name="movie" value="http://www.mydomain.com/uploads/scantheme/flash/header_v8.swf" />
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="menu" value="false" />
                    <param name="wmode" value="transparent"  />
                <!--[if !IE]> <-->
                <object data="./flash/header_v8.swf" width="720" height="309" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
                    <param name="quality" value="high" />
                    <param name="menu" value="false" />
                    <param name="wmode" value="transparent"  />
                    <param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
                    Failure - the browser failed to render the flash object. Please get the latest version of Flash Player.
                </object>
                <!--> <![endif]-->
                </object>
            </div><!-- //flashObject -->
        </div><!-- //flash -->
{else}
        <div style="display: none; clear: both;"></div>
{/if}    

Don't mind the {x} tags as these are CMS-related.

Always use SWFObject to embed flash for maximum compatibility.

I don't use SWFObject... I just use

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="[THE_SWF_FILE]" width="540" height="250">
<param name="movie" value="[THE_SWF_FILE]" />
<param name="flashVars" value="var1=1" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" /></object>

valid and clean

Pardon me for the rather slow response. I managed to fix it without the use of SWFObject. Thanks nonetheless.