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Please take two minutes and visit this website, and click on any of the rollovers near the top of the page, and tell me if you get the following message…

“Click to activate and use this control”

www.imageusa.net

Thanks in advance.

nope.

nope. Works fine.

No problem using newest FF browser.

No problems on Vista with either:

IE8 (Beta)
Opera 9.63


Bee

Rollovers are ok in FF3

Works fine in IE6. Yes IE 6 at work

Fine here (IE7 on XP machine at work).

Spidey wrote:Please take two minutes and visit this website, and click on any of the rollovers near the top of the page, and tell me if you get the following message…

“Click to activate and use this control”

www.imageusa.net

Thanks in advance.

Only unpatched IE users will see this.

If you care about the poor bastards (stupid people's money is as good as anyone's), then Google SWFObject to get around this. The key is that you have to embed the swf using javascript.

Thanks Jeff, but I already know the workaround.

I think you are being a little unfair, the guy is running SP3, and keeps his machine up to date with automatic updates.

Hmm, I don't know if the patch was in XP's SP3 or not, but, if he's up to date on patches, he shouldn't be seeing that message.

The standard practice these days *is* to use javascript to embed swf's, largely because of this issue. Better safe than sorry I suppose is the dominating influence here.

Worked fine in firefox, although the entire site was initially disabled by noscript...

Works fine here with FF.

Well if injecting SWF with Java is standard procedure, someone forgot to tell Corel…

Not to mention that from what I was reading on the web, there are about 10 million different (slight exaggeration) ways to do this, and some work on some browsers, and not on others. There were just too many little things about how this browser handles that, and how this doesn’t work in this or that case…

So to simply avoid “those” issues I have decided to go with the stock Object and Embed.

What I needed to know here is if “I” did something wrong, that might have been effecting a lot of users.

And thanks guys. I have all the info I need now.

You've already made your decision, but SWFObject that I mentioned earlier handles all of the browser quirks automagically (such as embed vs. object). It is even easier than using straight-up tags in some ways, such as when passing flashvars to the swf (if you need to do this). But you are also right that the amount of people inconvenienced by not using a javascript solution is very small.