Flash won't play with Firefox - HTML Forums

Trinkit · 06-28-2008, 10:09 AM

I maintain a website (www.terryjohnsonsflamingos.com) and have run across a problem that I don't seem to know how to fix.

It was working perfectly in IE and I had known for a while that the flash was not working in Firefox and had no idea how to fix it. The site has a jukebox on it where it will play snippets of their music which will not work in Firefox. I got that page to work by changing some of the code to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Flamingos Jukebox</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" style="background: black url(Images/FlamingosJukeboxNotes.gif) fixed;}">

<table border="0" width="288">
<tr><td>

<center>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="Flamingosjukebox.swf" width="202" height="263" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="Flamingosjukebox.swf"/>
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
</object>
</center>

</td></tr>
</table>

</body></html>

When I tested that, it worked fine and I thought "aha, I'll just change the code on the other 2 pages to do the same thing and the problem will be solved." But NOOOO! Now the music won't play on those other 2 pages, one being the index page and the other being the home page. I don 't have the other 2 pages uploaded to the server yet, so the old pages are still there that work in every browser except Firefox.

What do I need to do to insure that the music will play AND the video will play? One thing that I did differently on the jukebox page vs the other 2 is that the music on the jukebox page is part of the *.swf file and not a separate object. Will that correct the problem?

Thank you.

Trinkit · 09-18-2009, 01:42 PM

I've redesigned the entire Flamingos website and have Flash slideshows, which work perfectly in IE, but not in Firefox. I thought I'd do a search on HTMLforum to get an answer and I ran across this old post of mine.

I've since taken the jukebox out, so that is no longer the problem. However, the slideshows are of primary importance. Can someone help me? Here's the code for one of the offending pages:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="AceHTML 5 Pro">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Terry Johnson's Tour Gallery</title>



<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="Flamingos.css" TYPE="text/css">

</head>

<body>


<script type="text/javascript">var MenuLinkedBy="AllWebMenus [4]",awmMenuName="FlamingosSideBar",awmBN="792";awmAltUrl="";</script><script charset="UTF-8" src="FlamingosSideBar.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">awmBuildMenu();</script>



<CENTER>
<TABLE width="1100" bgcolor="#000000" STYLE="border: thin double; border-width: 4px; BORDER-COLOR: #222222; margin: 0px;">
<TR><TD>


<CENTER>
<TABLE width="99%" STYLE="border: thin double; border-width: 4px; BORDER-COLOR: #444444; margin: 0px;">
<TR><TD>

<BR>
<CENTER>
<img src="Images/Page Title - Tour.jpg" border="0" width="268" height="63" alt="On Tour">
<br><br><br><br>
</CENTER>


<center>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="Westbury" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="Flash/Tour-WB.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<param name="WMode" value="Transparent">
</object>
</center>

<HR>


<CENTER>
<TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" ID="table5">
<TR><TD align="center">

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</CENTER>


</TD></TR>
</TABLE>
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</TD></TR>
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</body>
</html>

RysChwith · 09-21-2009, 08:20 AM

The <object> tag either needs an <embed> tag inside it or data and type attributes. The embed tag should be automatically generated by Flash. For more on the data/type method, check here:

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay

Rys