Firefox 4 will not load Flash sites that have been validated by http://validator.w3.org/ ?
I built 3 flash sites (all in Action Script 2). 2 of the 3 sites have been validated with http://validator.w3.org/ and will not play in FireFox 4:
http://d2visions.com/ http://ecstelecomservices.com/
The 3rd site has not been validated (8 errors) and plays fine in FireFox 4:
http://f1mode.com/
My Flash player is updated ("You have version 10,2,153,1 installed") and works with other Flash sites - all checked with W3C and showing errors. I have spent some time on this and believe it has something to do with
Line 84, Column 20: there is no attribute "src"... the embed src "" part....
Any ideas?
Modified by cor-el
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Code like this with a classid doesn't work in Firefox.
You added a param tag with embed, but you need to create an embed tag with the code to load that Flash movie
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="1000" height="720"><param name="movie" value="ecs_final_3.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="embed" value="" /> </object>
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="1000" height="720"><param name="movie" value="ecs_final_3.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#FFFFFF" /> <embed src="ecs_final_3.swf" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="1000" height="720" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" style="background-color: #FFFFFF"> </object>
Thanks cor-el for that.... I made the changes to my http://d2visions.com site and it plays in FF4.... however, when checked with W3C Validator I now have 9 errors:
Line 48, Column 12: there is no attribute "src"
If you want to avoid validation problems then use conditional code to hide the object code for Firefox.
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="1000" height="720"> <param name="movie" value="ecs_final_3.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="BGCOLOR" value="#FFFFFF" /> <!--[if !IE]>--> <object data="ecs_final_3.swf" width="1000" height="720" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="background-color: #FFFFFF" > <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object> <!--<![endif]--> </object>
Modified by cor-el
That did it! Thanks again, cor-el :)