Publisher 2007 Embedded swf not showing in Mozilla Firefox

sonia colwell · External Since: Nov 03, 2009 Posts: 1

Firstly thanks for such an excellent forum. This has become my main point of reference for developing my website; someone who knows absolutely nothing about code!

My site "www.frenchfarmhousebordeaux.com" performs perfectly in all of the latest browsers except for the embedded swf video in Mozilla Firefox - just a blank object. Any ideas?

This subject has been raised but I haven't been able to locate your solutions.

Many thanks in advance for your advice.

Sonia

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DavidF · External Since: Mar 18, 2004 Posts: 3032

Reference: Using a SWF file (Flash) in Publisher:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/81253.aspx

As to why the SWF file is not working in FireFox, I would suggest that you
go back to where you got the code snippet and check your work against the
original source code and instructions. There may also be some discussion
about cross browser compatibility. Also perhaps someone in this group will
be better able to help you troubleshoot your code if you post it rather than
just providing a link to your site, plus perhaps where you got the code.

It is possible you may find that using different code or a different
approach altogether will be a faster solution. I was not patient enough to
wait for the long download of the images even in IE (check your image file
sizes), but it appears that you may be doing a slide show, not a video. If
so check out a javascript slide show solution instead of flash...or other
flash solutions. There are lots of free javascript scripts that are cross
browser compatible, and it may be you will have to keep experimenting until
you find something that works for you.

JAlbum and Porta are a couple javascript based slide shows that I have used
successfully in Publisher webs. Also if you need just a simple rotating
images solution, then just look at some of the even simpler
solutions....perhaps Google 'javascript slide shows'. Check out:
http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/show.shtml and the others on this site,
and perhaps
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex14/index.html

If one solution does not work, try another...

DavidF

<sonia colwell> wrote in message news:200911364552sonia.colwell@gmail.com...
> Firstly thanks for such an excellent forum. This has become my main point
> of reference for developing my website; someone who knows absolutely
> nothing about code!
>
> My site "www.frenchfarmhousebordeaux.com" performs perfectly in all of the
> latest browsers except for the embedded swf video in Mozilla Firefox -
> just a blank object. Any ideas?
>
> This subject has been raised but I haven't been able to locate your
> solutions.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your advice.
>
> Sonia
>
> EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
> SharePoint Application Page with Custom Controls
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/2145201e-00aa-4877-b5f7-cf...d7f0c5f

Eric James · External Since: May 26, 2009 Posts: 11

It's not clear exactly how you've gone about embedding the flash object in
your page, but there are a couple of parameters specified in the object
block with values of "video\video.swf". These should really be
"video/video.swf". The former will probably only work in internet explorer
running on windows.

Contrary to other advice, javascript based solutions for this sort of thing
are generally best avoided - simply because they won't work in the
increasing number of environments where javascript either isn't available or
has been disabled for security reasons, and are likely to generate more
problems than they solve. To cover those situations extra coding work is
required to provide a graceful rollback to an alternative display.

<sonia colwell> wrote in message news:200911364552sonia.colwell@gmail.com...
> Firstly thanks for such an excellent forum. This has become my main point
> of reference for developing my website; someone who knows absolutely
> nothing about code!
>
> My site "www.frenchfarmhousebordeaux.com" performs perfectly in all of the
> latest browsers except for the embedded swf video in Mozilla Firefox -
> just a blank object. Any ideas?
>
> This subject has been raised but I haven't been able to locate your
> solutions.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your advice.
>
> Sonia
>
> EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
> SharePoint Application Page with Custom Controls
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/2145201e-00aa-4877-b5f7-cf...d7f0c5f

Rob Giordano [MS MVP] · External Since: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 47

because the .swf file is at: video\video.swf and it should be
video/video.swf ...interesting that IE is more forgiving than FF on this
slash and not sure why this happened either...the backslash indicates it's a
file on your local machine, but this is not the case I don't think since you
can find it with IE but it will switch the slash to the proper one for
online files.

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Microsoft MVP Expression Web

"sonia colwell" wrote in message news:200911364552sonia.colwell@gmail.com...
> Firstly thanks for such an excellent forum. This has become my main point
> of reference for developing my website; someone who knows absolutely
> nothing about code!
>
> My site "www.frenchfarmhousebordeaux.com" performs perfectly in all of the
> latest browsers except for the embedded swf video in Mozilla Firefox -
> just a blank object. Any ideas?
>
> This subject has been raised but I haven't been able to locate your
> solutions.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your advice.
>
> Sonia
>
> EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
> SharePoint Application Page with Custom Controls
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/2145201e-00aa-4877-b5f7-cf...d7f0c5f

Rob Giordano [MS MVP] · External Since: Jan 23, 2009 Posts: 47

if you manually inserted the path to the .swf file maybe you mistyped it.

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Microsoft MVP Expression Web

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> because the .swf file is at: video\video.swf and it should be
> video/video.swf ...interesting that IE is more forgiving than FF on this
> slash and not sure why this happened either...the backslash indicates it's
> a file on your local machine, but this is not the case I don't think since
> you can find it with IE but it will switch the slash to the proper one for
> online files.
>
>
>
>
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> Rob Giordano
> Microsoft MVP Expression Web
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> "sonia colwell" wrote in message
> news:200911364552sonia.colwell@gmail.com...
>> Firstly thanks for such an excellent forum. This has become my main point
>> of reference for developing my website; someone who knows absolutely
>> nothing about code!
>>
>> My site "www.frenchfarmhousebordeaux.com" performs perfectly in all of
>> the latest browsers except for the embedded swf video in Mozilla
>> Firefox - just a blank object. Any ideas?
>>
>> This subject has been raised but I haven't been able to locate your
>> solutions.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance for your advice.
>>
>> Sonia
>>
>> EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice
>> SharePoint Application Page with Custom Controls
>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/2145201e-00aa-4877-b5f7-cf...d7f0c5f
>
>