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JaeEmAre
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July 30, 2008
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IE7 not showing SWF?

  • July 30, 2008
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We had some Captivate 2 SWF files on an ASP page that were working fine, however needed to be updated. We have since had Captivate 3 installed and we reworked them and republished them and now the new files are not working on some of the IE7 browsers. The ASP page only uses the <EMBED> tags to put the SWF on the page. If we take the same SWF URL and put it on a page that uses both <OBJECT> and <EMBED> it works fine across all browsers.

Is there an IE7 setting that might be causing these to not work on some?

Thank you.
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    July 30, 2008
    The Embed tag has been deprecated in IE for a while now - I'm surprised
    it worked at all in IE7. Embed is really only used for Mozilla-based (or
    non-IE) browsers now. IE *requires* (afaik) the Object tag.
    Erik

    JaeEmAre wrote:
    > The ASP page only uses the <EMBED> tags to put the
    > SWF on the page. If we take the same SWF URL and put it on a page that uses
    > both <OBJECT> and <EMBED> it works fine across all browsers.

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    Veretax
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    September 11, 2008
    you should be able to publish the Captivate to an HTML Page. If you open and view the source it should allow you to copy the JavaScript and tags necessary to get it to work. Just be aware that if you have your Captivate Files in an AppData directory or some place other than where the page resides, you will need to update the path's to the captivate files.
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