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SWFObject/Internet Explorer conflict and workaround. Oh yes, and please stop using IE!

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My dad, of all people, emailed me to tell me that my blog wasn't loading correctly in Internet Explorer on Windows. Thanks for letting me know, dad, you rock! Now stop using IE! :)

I was getting the following error: "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site . . . Operation aborted". A quick google turned up a blog post by Eoghan O'Brien that outlined the issue and why it was happening:

The problem is you can’t append to the body element from script that isn’t a direct child to the body element. It can be fixed simply by putting defer=”defer” in the script tag.
According to the W3C, the defer attribute:

When set, this boolean attribute provides a hint to the user agent that the script is not going to generate any document content (e.g., no “document.write” in javascript) and thus, the user agent can continue parsing and rendering.

This immediately made me suspect that the issue involved SWFObject and a quick test confirmed this.

The fix, as stated in Eoghan's post, was to put defer="defer" in the script tags whenever I was using SWFObject. I've only change the SWF that are currently displaying on the front page. I guess I'll have to go through and change every SWFObject in every post. What a pain. In the meanwhile, viewing older posts with Flash content in it may still kill IE (how I wish I could). Which brings me to a small request:

Dear reader, if you're using Internet Explorer at the moment, please do two things: One, exit it. And two, uninstall it. Oh yeah, you can't uninstall it because Microsoft owns your computer not you. OK, so at least don't use it. Here are some yummy alternatives: Firefox, Safari (hey, why not get a Mac while you're at it and enjoy the easy life?), and Opera.

Remember: Friends don't let friends use IE.

Comments

Please stop using HTML.
by Clark on 2007-04-12 15:14:19
Hmm. Weird, I'm using SWFObject over on podcast.com with no problems in IE. Could it be because you're calling the swfobject.js three times in your headers through plugins? just a thought. but if I do now see this error you've had, I'll know what to do. ;) ta. ---- btw : on a totally different note, soon I hope to find some great flash/flex/apollo devs to have a crack at something like this, which uses all our opml and rss ;) http://podcast.com/swf/directory_feed_player_pod.html (unfinished) ;)
by Kosso on 2007-04-12 15:27:09
I had a problem recently with IE and spaces in an ID tag, which was an error in it's self but the way IE handled it with flash was very strange...
by Rob on 2007-04-12 16:07:06
I get random reports now and again of this happening, but I'm not sure it's just a matter of writing the content into a nested div - I think it's usually related to people not properly closing their html tags, or sometimes putting the so.write() call inside the same div that they want the swf to go into... so you might check those out as well.
by Geoff on 2007-04-12 16:17:52
I did some testing, and I'm not sure that blog post you linked applies to this situation. I made a test page here: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/swfobject_ieabort.html Which has the flashcontent div inside another div (i nested it a few times actually) and then has swfobject write into that div, and I get no errors in IE7. Also of note: SWFObject doesn't use document.write - it just uses innerHTML, which should be safe to use any time you want, as long as the element you are injecting stuff into has completely loaded. I'm thinking that there may be some conflict with another script on your blog - maybe something is trying to parse the whole html document and is causing IE to crap out since the document is changing at the same time this other script is parsing it? (I'm thinking maybe something like a getElementsByClassName or other function that might have to scan the full page... but this is just a guess.
by Geoff on 2007-04-12 16:26:48
Hey man, Just took a look at your SWFObject script at the top of you page and your in innerHTML call aren't escaped. Might not be the issue, but would be worth switching over just in case. Bad "); Good "); Might be worth a try. I find the first step to fixing issues is always validating.
by Dustin Senos on 2007-04-12 16:47:17
Well that didn't quite show up how I was hoping. Your greater than and less than characters aren't escaped in the innerHTML for showing the flash version the user has.
by Dustin Senos on 2007-04-12 16:49:24
Hey guys, Thanks for the tips and insight. I just deactivated the plugin that was causing the redundant include (a leftover from when I was testing it.) The defer trick seems to have worked so I probably won't investigate further at this point (got SWX to do!) :)
by aral on 2007-04-12 18:47:20
DIGG IT:IE doesn't leave a father read his son's blog!
by Savvas Malamas on 2007-04-12 19:21:59
>The defer trick seems to have worked so I probably won’t investigate further at this point (got SWX to do!) That's what we wAnt: ppl not bothering/knowing about the simple inner workings of their html-rendered blog templates invent new "kick butt" formats for data exchange. brave new world, strange times. off taking a piss ;)
by subhero on 2007-04-12 20:45:28
I have loaded Firefox and I can reach your blog without any problem. Using IE I still continue having problem to load your blog, although what I see before it abondones to load has improved compared to what I experienced this morning.
by Haluk S. Balkan on 2007-04-12 22:11:12
As I use SWFObject on nearly every web based project I really feared this problem would come back to haunt me. First I suspected it would be the urchin tracker doing some weird stuff, but that isn't it. Then I tried blocking the second swfobject.js that gets loaded, but that wasn't it either. After that I presumed mootools was the culprit. It seemed to be, but it really wasn't. It is just a dependency for videobox.js. MooTools doesn't seem to be used anywhere on your frontpage except in videobox.js Upon closer inspection it seems to be related to the combination of swfobject.js and videobox.js. Videobox tries to add an eventlistener to the "domready" event. After that it searches every "a" tag on the page that has a rel attribute beginning with "vidbox". It also seems to create quite a few elements. As far as I can see there is no such element on the front page of your blog. In conclusion: It might be a good idea to remove the link to the videobox.js file. Furthermore I recommend removing the now unused mootools.js link, removing the duplicate SWFObject link and upgrading to SWFObject 1.5.
by Kristof on 2007-04-12 23:38:19
I'm using Windows 2000 and when trying to access the blog in IE6, I too get the "Operation Aborted" message. Clicking the OK button loads the "Page cannot be displayed" page... Loads fine in Firefox (which is my default browser ;-)
by Jason on 2007-04-13 00:44:58
@Kristof: *Doh* That would be it, then. I only just installed Videobox (the plugin version for wordpress) to play around with. OK, it's history :)
by aral on 2007-04-13 08:10:50
@Jason & dad: Could you guys try again on IE (after clearing your cache) and let me know if removing Videobox did the trick. It was working for me on IE even before removing that but it sounds like a time-related bug and may trigger or not based on the difference in download speeds.
by aral on 2007-04-13 08:12:36
I thought you'd done that on purpose ;)
by paddy on 2007-04-13 09:51:37
Seems to work on Vista: * msie7 * ff2.0.03 * op9.20 Seems to work on XP virtual machine: * msie6 (#page too wide, probably a glitch in css)
by Kristof on 2007-04-13 11:13:33
As far as I remember innerHTML isn't a great thing to use anyway as it's not a proper web standard (although all browsers support it). Best practice is to use appendChild() instead, e.g. //the text to write out var mystr = "This is some text to write into the div flashPlayerInfo"; //the div to write out to var outputdiv = document.getElementById("flashPlayerInfo"); //clear anything that's already in the div if(outputdiv.firstChild) outputdiv.removeChild(outputdiv.firstChild); //create new paragraph node var newpara = document.createElement("p"); //add the text to it newpara.appendChild(document.createTextNode(mystr)); //write out to the div outputdiv.appendChild(newpara); //clean up outputdiv = null; Obviously that's a lot more lines of code but you can wrap it up into a function for easy re-use. It also avoids any issues around having to escape() special characters in your output string as createTextNode does that for you. Only caveat with that is if you want to use in your string it will escape that for you so you have to use the unicode version (\u00A0) instead. On a separate note (but also to do with the crapness of IE) I found out the other day that if you store a reference to an element in a var, IE does not automatically remove that var from memory - so when doing AJAX pages in particular it's important to explicitly clean up all vars that reference document elements - otherwise IE will start hogging all your RAM! See code above which does exactly that...
by moloko on 2007-04-13 12:19:09
woops - the last sentence of the penultimate paragraph should read: "Only caveat with that is if you want to use   in your string"
by moloko on 2007-04-13 12:23:21
I did not clear my cache but now I am able to reach to your blog witout any problem both from firefox and IE. Thank You
by Haluk S. Balkan on 2007-04-13 13:35:38
Pfew, I was getting worried I needed to change all my SWFObject sites!
by Michiel van der Ros on 2007-04-13 14:19:50
[...] I’d like to take a moment to apologize to all of the visitors to this site who are using Internet Explorer. It was recently brought to my attention by Dan (Faken) of Pixel2Life that one of my pages had a rather severe bug on it. This bug would throw an error to any IE user, and then kick them out. The problem, which turned out to be a conflict with the swfObject and a lightbox plugin that I was using on the website, has now been fixed. For more information on the bug and how to fix it, visit Aral Balkan’s Blog. [...]
by Sanctified Studios — Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site, Operation aborted on 2007-06-07 17:02:53
The solution is not eliminating videobox.js. That is not a complete solution, just a workaround. In our case we need it to run mootools and videobox , we found out that the solution is to create the SWFobject variable on the "onDOMready" event. That did it for us. here is an example: [code] // [/code] We find that the interaction between mootools and SWFObject to be quite difficult. It is like learning to code again.
by Ganar on 2007-07-04 00:57:59
I have had the same "operation aborted" problem with the **** IE explorer. I have seen that the swfObject has troubles with the mootools javascript... I have removed that... now the site works
by Jan Jezek on 2007-07-27 16:30:36
Ganar...for some reason the code you posted isn't displaying for me. I was wondering if you could try explaining your solution again as I am running into the same problems using videobox. Thank You
by Jon on 2007-07-31 03:24:34
Just a quick heads up for y'all - we were experiencing the same issue and eventually pinned it down to the slimbox include. I assume its the same root problem as you guys were having with videobox. Anyway I moved the include line for slimbox to right before the closing body tag ... and that seems to have resolved the issue for now.
by mikeh on 2007-07-31 11:48:20
Hi having same problems with lightbox vs swfobject cooperation. Unfortunately it's crucial for my project. Niether ->moving initLightbox() to the end of body tag nor -> has done the trick for me so my last hope is to see Ganars solution ( to create swfobject variable on the "onDOMready" event ) but there sth wrong with the code. I'd be SO grateful if somone could help me out ( i'm not really a coder ) - how to create a swfobject variable on the "onDOMready" event. A simple piece of code and where to put it would be more than enough!
by coober on 2007-09-06 20:33:51
[...] “Die Seite …. kann nicht geöffnet werden. Vorgang abgebrochen. ” “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site … Operation Aborted” Grund: unbekannt, jedenfalls für mich. Zumal in Firefox und Opera keine Probleme auftauchen. Na ja, Google ist ja dein Freund… man ist nicht der einzige mit den Problemen: Der Tipp auf http://aralbalkan.com/912 hat zwar etwas geholfen, aber nicht wirklich. Im Internet Explorer wurde danach nach der Flashplayer-Installation verlangt, bzw. dieser nicht erkannt. Geholfen hat ein FAQ-Eintrag auf der Seite der SWFObject-Macher: Code (javascript) [...]
by Der Makrograf » Blog Archive » SWFObject + Lightbox + Coppermine und der Internet Explorer on 2007-09-19 15:53:36
can any body please tell me how to use swfobject? on my popup its no working. thanks in advance
by zahur on 2007-09-20 08:37:33
After two hours of banging my head against the table, i read the solution her! Thnx
by Sander on 2007-09-27 14:03:05
good god man, is it really that easy? I just dropped it in and am not seeing the problems. Thought it was a conflict with jquery, but i guess it's just M$ being their usual crappy selves. Thanks very much for the solution!
by dbcn on 2008-03-26 14:49:53
THE SOLUTION: SWFObject conflicts with mootools. This is the fix: window.addEvent('load', function(){ var movie = new SWFObject("movie.swf","mymovie","400","200","8", "#336699"); movie.write("flashcontent"); }); Instead of: var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "400", "200", "8", "#336699"); so.write("flashcontent");
by Sander on 2007-12-03 12:51:51
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by UnderMedia S.A. :: Blog » Internet Explorer no puede abrir el sitio, operación anulada on 2007-11-27 21:51:39
FYI, for anyone having a related problem involving SWFObject error "Object doesn't support this property or method" when using External Interface. Here is the "official" adobe solution: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb400730 They have 2 solutions, one didnt work for me, the other did work.
by Tim H on 2008-11-07 23:21:36
The above solution does not work for me, I am experiencing conflicts using jquery lightbox and swfobject.
by Rob on 2007-12-14 05:53:18
I can't seem to view my facebook profile. The profile comes up and then right after this error box with, "Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site. Operation aborted",pops up as well. I click okay and it brings me to the page saying "web page can not be found" or whatever...Its been a whole day since I looked at my profile and I know its happening when others click to see my profile and can't. Please help!!!
by Skye on 2008-06-11 21:51:31
I ran across another cause of this problem: I had my javascript accidentally placed within tags. This attempted hyperlink is ignored by all other browsers, but it causes this error in IE. Hope that helps someone out there as clueless as me...
by Jeff on 2008-09-16 03:54:58

I have had the same problem with swfobject a slimbox. And the problem it isn´t between mootools and swfobject, it is with slimbox. The defer="defer" works but only if you put it with slimbox. With swfobject doesn´t work.

by Aritz on 2007-11-02 17:22:35

I fail to see why people should stop using ie because some people cant make stuff that works right. There are things that work in ie that don't your in other browsers to but i don't hear you saying stop using them.

by Eric on 2008-06-30 11:13:44

Thanks a billion my friend for the interesting post, thanks everyone who brought up a solution (the solution from sander worked great and he submitted it the day of my birthday (dec 6th ) !! ).

by abdellah on 2008-01-02 09:43:44

Sanders solution works, but now I have always a short delay before flash appears. The no-flash-GIF shows up for a second before flash appears. Any ideas for that?

by Pete on 2007-12-03 17:58:48

IE is the Devil.

by Michael Kelly on 2008-06-02 15:32:31

All of this has been somewhat enlightening. The best explanation of what exactly is going on here that I've found yet: http://www.garyharan.com/index.php/2008/04/22/internet-explorer-cannot-open-the-internet-site-operation-aborted/ And no - I'm not Gary.

by Dude on 2008-06-18 16:33:59

Use window.addEvent(’domready’ instead of load. The delay is shorter, but still there. Working on a fix

by Sander on 2007-12-06 13:42:49

More one this, see http://www.rednas.be/news/43/swfobject-internet-explorer-error-fix

by Sander on 2007-12-06 14:05:17

I moved the include line for slimbox/lightbox/mediabox to right before the closing body tag … and that have resolved the issue for now. This is Mikeh's solution. Thanks Mike!

by Jiaoheng on 2008-03-20 16:30:21

hi, if you are having problems with video in your posts, try my new plugin: http://jwmpplugin.wordpress.com/

by sanela novo on 2008-06-09 19:16:53

OH MY F*CKING GOD!!!! You are my hero!! For like... months I've tried to get this conflict out of the way and this little article of yours fixed it with the use of two damn words!!! The SWFobject script interfered with my mootools library jamming my whole webpage and resulting in an complete IE crash. I love you man! Thanks, Fabio

by Fabio on 2008-03-21 21:21:42

I'm getting the same error with my own blog. I was researching how to fix it and your site came up. I have no idea what you guys are talking about! I wish I did so I could fix it. rofl.

by Pamela Kramer on 2008-10-27 04:08:56

Oh man, I should've read your post like 4 months ago!!! It'd have saved me so much grief. I'm not a geek or anything of that sort. So imagine my excruciating pain! I'd bought an expensive flash object back in December 2008 called "Flash Player Aleo" for my blog. It was around Xmas time; this explains why I spent 60 bucks on this thing: I must have had one too many! But this thing is cool and looks like an Ipod... And I just wasted 4 months of my life trying to figure out why the it never showed on my blog. Until a few days ago when I downloaded Firefox, repeated what I kept doing with IE and voila! But I still held hope for IE. So I followed various recommendations and went to Microsoft to download something called "subInACL" and reinstalled Adobe Flash. And I tried to see my object: Nothing! Very intrigued I googled one umpth time "swf object doesn't show on ie" and here I am, reading your incredible advice: "Friends don't let friends use IE"--uncannily, this is what I started telling friends yesterday!

by aengw on 2009-04-20 07:47:15

Hi, I just implemented the SWFObject to my website but now my popup windows are deactivated and nothing happens when you click on buttons? I have been searching for a fix but no joy. Any help would be much appreciated.

by Az on 2008-02-06 14:07:32

Thnx you just saved me another worry with IE... which i only start if i really have to... but with all the buggy issues that's still quit a lot ;)

by jasper on 2008-09-22 08:22:18

How does one incorporate this fix into an html file? window.addEvent(’load’, function(){ var movie = new SWFObject(”movie.swf”,”mymovie”,”400″,”200″,”8″, “#336699″); movie.write(”flashcontent”); }); I am using the Videobox application and don't know what the "movie.swf" and "mymovie" variables are (they must be in the compiled videobox.js file). I used the "defer" suggestion but it didn't work on swfobjects.js. I used it in mootools.js and while Videobox still doensn't work in IE, this hack did allow each post in the blog using this javascript to load. I am not a programmer so anyone who knows how I might incorporate this for the Videobox application, please explain in non-techie details or write down the specific example.

by Brian Lewandowski on 2008-09-17 20:47:30

I was running into this same error. I am running MediaBox and SWFObject1.5 and changing how the mediabox is executed seemed to do the trick. Change it from "domready" to "load". Mootools explains that domready will execute after all the html is loaded (not necessarily images though) while load will execute after all images and html is loaded. http://demos.mootools.net/DomReadyVS.Load

by Matt on 2008-03-27 15:08:53

I've had the same problem. I figured out that the IE crashes if you try to append a tag to the bodytag and the scripttag isn't a child of body too. This crashes: TESTSEITE TESTSEITE var divTag = document.createElement('div'); document.body.appendChild(divTag); This works: TESTSEITE TESTSEITE var divTag = document.createElement('div'); document.body.appendChild(divTag); However, I explained that a bit longer on my Typo3-Blog on http://www.typo3-scout.de. But sadly, it's written in german.

by Frederic on 2008-05-14 07:09:50

Sorry for the last comment! Html is not working. Please look at http://www.typo3-scout.de/2008/05/14/js-error-in-ie-totalabbruch/#more-15 to see the code...

by Frederic on 2008-05-14 07:11:10

If you are attempting to use this on an .aspx page that also uses a ComponentArt object you will have the issue described at the top of this page, but worse - it will refuse to load in IE7. After reading through the replies here I changed the last line of code in the videobox.js file from "window.addEvent('domready', Videobox.init.bind(Videobox));" to "window.addEvent('load', Videobox.init.bind(Videobox));" and that did the trick for me.

by VirtualVoid on 2008-05-16 19:35:24

defer thing didn't solve the problem. I dont really know dom scripting but that option didn't seem to work either. The only thing that did seem to work was adding the javascript call right before the closing body tag. Thanks to whoever suggested that workaround. In regards to IE isn't it time we quit going out of our way to support the crappy browser. How will the masses know the browser (IE) is the problem if we keep creating workarounds/hacks.

by ryan on 2008-06-11 07:02:24

This fixed the problem with Modx: See http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,21791.msg134386.html#msg134386

by Andrew on 2008-01-31 16:24:27

I had the same problem developing in Flex and then trying to use the History Manager + history.js and historyFrame.html. I didn't need the history manager, I just let flex build the html page for me and then loaded all the files from the "build-release" and then switched from the canned html page to the swfobject script. I forgot to take the history behavior and frame out. I kept getting a frame and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Then I deleted the script reference to the history.js file and viola, no more problems.

by Kevin Mask on 2008-04-15 00:28:24

Has anyone experienced this problem with the Modx snippet version of SWFObject? I'm not sure how to implement these fixes given the code differences. Thanks! http://modxcms.com/SWFObject-1815.html http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=21614

by Andrew on 2008-01-30 22:55:22

I'm not using mootools and still experience problems with SWFObject and IE. I tried to add defer="defer" and I get something odd. I have a preloader that's loading my main movie and I pass the preloader to the swfobject. And if I add defer="defer" to the javascript tag then the preloader is not displayed but the main movie still loads.

by Julia on 2008-03-31 22:13:16

So, I have been using swfObject 2.0 and everything works fine now :)

by Florian on 2008-04-21 08:47:37

ups- actually i dont know if the downgrade worked. what really helped was to put the whole thing (script tags) out of the header into the body

by Stephan Petzl on 2009-01-09 14:00:30

We have about the same problem on a wordpress website... "this method is not accepted by this object" Only on IE7 and IE8beta , not on FF

by Tom webdesign on 2008-10-29 14:36:02

None of your methods worked for me with multiple swfobject calls on one page so.. 1 function video1(){ var s1 = new SWFObject("player/player.swf","ply","300","243","9","#FFFFFF"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s1.addParam("flashvars","file=/video.flv&image=images.jpg"); s1.write("videome1"); }; 2 function video2(){ var s1 = new SWFObject("player/player.swf","ply","300","243","9","#FFFFFF"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always"); s1.addParam("flashvars","file=/video2.flv&image=images2.jpg"); s1.write("videome2"); }; Now they are all independent functions and will be called after the page has loaded, No conflicts with lightbox, works on IE6, 7 and all the better browsers.

by phils on 2008-10-06 09:17:02

Silly me, tags.. Missed off body onload=video1(); video2(); div id=videome1

by phils on 2008-10-06 09:18:57

Hey guys. Ive spent HOURS and HOURS and HOURS trying to fix this. I did everything any1 could think of! On my page, i have at least 10 scripts. mootools, lightbox, and some other marketing scripts. The FLV Video was loading and working 100% fine on Firefox. but it wouldnt load on IE! When i added the defer="defer" something else would stop working. The window.addEvent(’domready’ and 'load') did not work... anyhow, nothing worked! THE SOLUTION IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Take your all the way to OUT OF THE BODY TAG! This is one of the reasons that it doesnt work. Now... Put the script inside the HEAD TAG! function startvideo() { var s1 = new SWFObject('player.swf','ply','210','170','9','#FFFFFF'); etc... IMPORTANT!!! Now on the Body tag, add the following: AND THERE YOU GO! cheers!

by Pedro Duarte on 2008-07-24 00:59:18

hey my code didnt show up properly! So after u move your script to the head dat and add the funcion.startvideo() go to your body tag and just next to where it says body add onload="startvideo();" >

by Pedro Duarte on 2008-07-24 07:44:50

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by çet on 2008-10-22 17:32:23
What file exactly would I put this tag?
by nick on 2008-11-12 14:15:00
Excuse me, this tag: script type="text/javascript" defer="defer"
by nick on 2008-11-12 14:15:45
Oops. Let's try that again. I had my javascript accidentally placed within <a> tags.
by Jeff on 2008-09-16 03:57:19
While you're at it: stop using Flash, and create websites that degrade gracefully...
by Bokkie on 2009-01-11 22:35:38
i downgraded from SWF Object 2.1 to 1.5- now it works...
by Stephan Petzl on 2009-01-09 11:20:06
I am sooooo with you.. IE is the bane of any developer's existance. I HATE IE. It's the only browser that can take a 5 min fix and make it 5 hours.
by K Epps on 2009-03-14 20:22:52
I had this problem also.. the defer trick was not a solution as it only fixed it intermidently.. I found that the problem was due to a conflict between swfObject and prototype.js.. Removing prototype fixed the issue..
by tim on 2009-02-27 20:45:22
Hi, I added the defer="defer" tag and now it's up and running. Tanx.
by Tomas on 2009-01-12 07:37:40
couldn't help that stupid Mac plug at the end eh. I'm supporting a Windows user that just got a Mac for the 1st time a couple months ago... easy life ? FAR from it. That, and he could have purchased 4 PC laptops for the same price as his one Mac. Yikes.
by Clarkson on 2009-01-09 18:26:12
..many users are still using the problematic version 6 of ie ! Its unbelievble.. who ..s gonna "wake up" these people ? :p IE version 6 it's by, its-elf a "problem generator", in terms of compatibility and logic, for every designer, developer etc etc ! :p Since that exist IE version 7 & now IE version 8 ..someone should really strongly recomment to every body using version 6, to sipmly, please, St0P uSinG iE 6 :( Please note that outta there are better, compatible & more secure browsers such as : ie8, firefox, safari, chrome, opera, netscape navigator, k-meleon, konqueror !
by stella_artois on 2009-04-09 23:44:14
thankss
by cet on 2009-01-10 22:06:45
Please help me i do not know anything about programming... I am suffering the same problem with my blog Guruofsoftwares.blogspot.com..
by Navi Arora on 2009-01-28 11:37:06
"(hey, why not get a Mac while you're at it and enjoy the easy life?)" ruined everything else you said for me
by Henry on 2009-01-18 02:24:13
[...] пофиксено в рабочей версии будет и в stable release. Но эти траблы с IE7 - это нечто. Да, знаю, Aral Balkan запостил это еще в 2007 [...]
by Viktor Goltvyanitsa » SWFObject 2.1 on 2009-04-07 09:28:57
Thanks for the solution :-)
by Will on 2009-03-23 12:20:15
help me ... how properly use HistoryManager for ie
by Vitalik on 2009-02-23 14:42:07
You can work around the issue by moving the Lightbox tags from the section of the HTML to the very end of the page code, just before the closing tag: Worked for me! YAY!
by Rachel Miller on 2009-09-30 18:47:19
So I tried the defer="defer" it succeeded in allowing the page to load but once I clicked on links, the page froze/ the page went dead. No idea.
by Cody on 2009-11-24 01:44:17
Hi Aral, good day to you. I'm now having problem with what you had but I can't find the SWFObject that you mentioned in my html scripts. Worst of all, I am not a web designer and really need your help or anyone here you can tell me how to change my script. Thanks a zillion! - william (fotomalaysia@gmail.com)
by William G on 2009-09-17 10:22:45
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by ryan on 2009-12-05 16:46:33
[...] conflict with IE [...]
by SWFObject Conflicts Galore « Peng’s Blog on 2009-11-13 21:41:59
Thanx a lot for this post, it's help me with this issue in my website. Cheers from Chile.
by Carlos A. Pedreros on 2009-11-19 15:47:56
hey man, You're right, I hate to do websites, blogs works for ie, mainly ie6. It's terrible...
by qilustra on 2009-12-16 20:11:28
I had this problem with ie6 + swfobject too, but in my case it was because of the tag I used. In ie6 you can't use a self closing tag for like so so you must add the closing tag yourself More details on the SWFObject FAQ page, point 4 http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/faq
by dingo on 2010-01-06 10:04:58
Thanks for posting this, Aral. I was having an issue with swfobject loaded via AJAX. I wasn't getting an alert error like you were, but the defer solution worked for me (I had never heard of that attribute before).
by RussellUresti on 2010-02-12 16:57:19
This was a great piece of advice. That error made me want to jump off of a building. Works like a champ now! Thanks.
by Kiel Jared on 2010-02-16 19:56:43
Hooray for the last two paragraphs!! :D I totally agree ;)
by kozie on 2010-03-08 15:47:28
Stop this idiotic OS and Browser war. I use what I like and if it isn't what you like, so what! Talking about freedom or who owns you? In your case this is very obvious, Apple owns you, every penny of you. Only Mac users are this antisocial and ignorant. Go and play an advocate of peace and tolerance (something useful you know) and stop praying to Steve Jobs and kissing (or worse) your Mac every morning. I don't like Jehovah witnesses because they are trying to force me to think like they do and for that same reason I don't like Mac users. Mac users all belong to a sect whose followers only purpose in live is to use every means possible to force their view upon others. And if you don't think like them and use the same Apple stuff as them and pray to the same god called Steve Jobs, then you have no right to exist. Just look at this blog, it is a free advertisement for Apple and the most blatant anti Microsoft I've seen in a long time, don't worry my friend you have made the wallet of Steve Jobs and Apple very happy again, you are a good follower and slave. And why did I enter " Anonymous" as name? For exactly the same reason I have a "Please no Jehovah witnesses" sticker at my front door. Your pathetic breed of nonhumans can't even cope with criticism without getting unbelievable aggressive. Your dad sounds a lot more reasonable, he uses what he likes or is at hand. How could he ever have bring fort a son like this? For God sake (no, not Steve Jobs but the real one) talk about something interesting without flaming everybody who doesn’t think the same like the people who own you, Apple. Spend some time working or communicating with other people outside your Apple believes instead of flaming everybody that doesn’t think the same like you and maybe you will join humanity once again! Show this to your dad and ask him what he thinks about it. And by the way, I use all browsers because they all have problems of their own (and don't even get me started about Safari). If it wasn't for people like you maybe we could work together to limit it all to ONE browser and one OS, both having the best of all combined. And one last thing, A MAC? You mean Linux with a graphical interface build around it?
by Anonymous on 2010-02-25 13:42:22
Thanks, that was exactly the info I was looking for!
by Michael H. on 2010-03-13 13:07:31
But for most people, Never can not do without IE
by YaliC on 2010-03-29 05:34:49
having problems of my own when my boss and client insists my stuff must work on IE6. I mean really! I had a good laugh about your comment @ your dad!.
by uni on 2010-05-19 07:23:22
Why can't I get SWFObject to play in IE 7 or 8) in IE in an https environment?? It works if Firefox perfectly well... I am pulling out my hair trying to find a solution and at 57 it's amazing I have hair to pull..
by Natale on 2010-05-22 13:21:59
> Remember: Friends don't let friends use IE. Hell yeah ;-)
by Gentlemen A.D. on 2010-06-15 08:51:13
I’m thinking that there may be some conflict with another script on your blog
by CBSE on 2010-08-05 14:30:00
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by Packers Movers on 2010-08-05 14:28:25
maybe something is trying to parse the whole html document and is causing IE to crap out since the document is changing at the same time this other script is parsing it? (I’m thinking maybe something like a getElementsByClassName or other function that might have to scan the full page… but this is just a guess.
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by Science Notes on 2010-08-05 14:34:23
LOL! did you really just say ... "you can't because Microsoft owns your computer" and then follow it with ... "get a MAC ... and enjoy the easy life" ... wow ... the irony ....
by Michael on 2010-09-07 12:56:24
Güncel Haberler,Siyaset,Magazin,sondakika haberleri egeden son haberlerı
by http://www.habergeliyor.com on 2010-10-07 23:38:08
Thanks so much Aral. Your solution fixed my problem with IE: when I bookmark my website written in Flex then open again by clicking on this, an error message appears. Thanks Aral. Regards, Khanh Tran
by KHANH TRAN on 2011-04-19 16:37:01
[...] agent can continue parsing and rendering. Blog post by Eoghan O’Brien and also explained in Aral Balkan’s blog [...]
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