Comments on: FlashReplace - A light-weight JavaScript to insert Flash movies into your web page

By: Webkrauts » Flash mit FlashReplace einbinden

Webkrauts » Flash mit FlashReplace einbinden — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:28:45 +0000

[...] Nyman hat mit FlashReplace einen sehr kompakten Ansatz als Alternative veröffentlicht. Das Skript hat 2 KB und ist sehr [...]

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:53:46 +0000

Jeff,

Thank you!
If that works for IE 7, great! At the time, I won’t tweak the script, mostly due to lack of time, but please just adjust the script so it works fine for you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:38:25 +0000

Robert,

Excellent code. Short and very easy to follow.

I hate to kick a dead horse, but I want to bring up the IE7/image placeholder issue one more time. I’ve had the same problem as described by Clarence Eddy and James. I’m testing with a very simple swf with a preloader and I get this problem. Firefox works fine.

To solve it, I removed: data=”‘ + src + ‘”‘
replacing it with a single quote to close classid.

Thanks for responding to feedback a year and half after posting the code.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:07:17 +0000

Prasannah,

There’s a suggestion in the comments above.

By: Prasannah

Prasannah — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:03:29 +0000

Sounds interesting. I’m currently using the ToobPlayer to play Youtube videos on my Wordpress site. It uses a simple tag and passes the URL of the video through flashVars. Any idea on how to use FlashReplace to display the videos? If you’d want, I can post the embed code (its pretty simple yet I can’t figure out how to emply FlashReplace)! Thanks in advance!

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:40:02 +0000

Ryan,

Not sure why that would be.

Red,

Thanks, good to hear!

By: Red

Red — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:22:34 +0000

Very nice solution,

I have tested with:
IE: 5.5, 6, 7, 8 Beta 2
Safari: 3.1.2
Opera: 9.6.2
Chrome: 0.3.154.9
Firefox 3.0.4 (Windows and Linux)

Works nicely on all!

Many thanks.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:59:06 +0000

hmm still bad in FF3.03 with Flash 10.0 r12. one of my developers had the problem in FF3 with Flash 10 on Ubuntu also.

i read elsewhere that its a problem detecting version 10 in mozilla browsers. for now disabling the check version call fixed it, but that’s just a hack.

i guess this will be a larger problem for you when more users switch to Flash 10. you could see large outtages. i only had a few users notice the problem on my sites..

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:33:22 +0000

Ryan,

Please download the latest version and you should be good to go.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:10:56 +0000

hey i had a big problem with flashreplace on my sites after upgrading to flash 10. the ‘checkForFlash’ function doesn’t seem to identify flash 10. can u verify and/or provide a code update? thanks!

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:51:37 +0000

Stefan,

To be more correct, the id of the element should be the element where you want to replace the inner content with the Flash movie. I.e. wrap your image with a div or span element, give id your desired id, and it should work just fine.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:25:24 +0000

I don’t get the script running. Please take a lot over here and tell me, if you have any ideas!
http://www.rosesfashionoutlet.com/b2c/index_noflashtest.html

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:50:19 +0000

johnnyboyNiumata,

I see! Good to hear that it’s working out for you!

By: johnnyboyNiumata

johnnyboyNiumata — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:13:14 +0000

I use your script with great effect loading after onload.
in conjunction with simon wilsons .addLoadEvent

I then just put your call just above the div tag (for readability)

I did this because I had some large flash movies loading and they were slowing the initial display time of my page.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:37:09 +0000

Erik,

You seem to be absolutely correct. It was just such a small fox, so I issued a new release. Please download FlashReplace 1.10 and let me know how it works for you.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:24:03 +0000

Works fine with older versions as far as the tests on various computers at work that I have done.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:01:11 +0000

Jeffrey,

Great!

Erik,

Interesting. Does it still work with older versions with that fix? Either way, I think I’ll wait with a fix till version 10 is finally released.

JohnM,

Thanks, I’m glad that it was a good fit for you!

By: JohnM

JohnM — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:13:53 +0000

Very VERY cool…. Thank you…
You have given me a way to EASILY load a different flash movie depending on visitor interaction with my site.
Also a way to present a javascript managed ‘Loading..’ message while waiting for the movies to load.
As well as a way to check if the browser can handle the flash object and cleanly and simply render an HTML option to screen if it can’t.
Again, very cool and simple implementation.
Kudos to you…

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:35:30 +0000

After installing Flash player 10 beta, this excellent flash replacement script stopped working.

Adding a space before the parentheses in the regular expression that checks for the version did the trick.

So, “/.*(\d+\.\d+).*/” should be “/.* (\d+\.\d+).*/”

.* was too greedy it seems.

By: Jeffrey Langham

Jeffrey Langham — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:42:57 +0000

Robert,

Than you for the handy script. It got me over the IE hurdle. Updating the script to produce XHTML was a cinch.