Problem with SWFObject 2.1 in IE7 / Vista
I have a site where I’m using the SWFObject javascript library to handle Flash detection and embedding of flash movies. I noticed a javascript error in IE7 that was preventing the alternate content being replaced with the flash movie – the end result was a banner showing ‘get a new version of flash’ etc.
After a little investigation the problem appears to only affect the minified version of the library. I haven’t found the exact issue, but it looks like a problem with the obfuscation applied in publishing the minified js file.
I have a custom endpoint handling minification and caching of the javascript anyhow, so after switching to the source version of the library and handling minification myself, all is good in IE7.
Is it minified or packed?
The jQuery flash plugin has a similar issue when packed and unpacked using eval, but minified works.
http://jquery.lukelutman.com/plugins/flash/
Comment by Robert Price, March 18, 2009 @ 1:09 pm
Looks like the packed version that has issues.
Comment by Oli, March 19, 2009 @ 10:26 am