AUGUST 2006
Today's newsletter is a public service announcement for everyone using the latest version of Internet Explorer, and those thinking of updating their current IE.
Enjoy!
Kim Adams, President, Tiger Studios, Inc.
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A: The JavaScript is simply telling IE to play the <OBJECT> that it finds on the HTML page. This script works for most web sites but not all. There is another longer coding solution that can be used should this script fail. Have a question that you would like to see in this newsletter? Send them to Tiger Studios |
Why Won't Animation Play in Internet Explorer?
You might have noticed, after you upgraded to the latest and greatest version of Internet Explorer, the Flash animations that used to run great now either don't run at all or gives you a message that says "Click to activate and use this control".
What is going on?
Seems Microsoft, creator of Internet Explorer, lost a legal battle with a patent holder. This loss affects how IE displays not just Flash animations, but QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java and Adobe Acrobat functions. Instead of automatically displaying the content and animations, you now have to confirm that you want each item on the web site page to play. Let's hope Microsoft fixes this problem with it's next IE version.
In the mean time, don't despair. There are solutions to this problem. The simplest and easiest consists of attaching an external JavaScript to your web site and calling that JavaScript on any HTML page that uses an animation.
Here is how to do it:
- Create a file called "ieupdate.js".
- Insert the following code, and only this code, into that new file:
- objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
- for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
- {
- objects[i].outerHTML = objects[i].outerHTML;
- }
- for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
- objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
- Place the below code into your web site HTML file before the end