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Filed in Main Tuesday May 9, 2006

Ok.

Lots of people are aware of… and annoyed by the ActiveX issues surrounding embedded flash (and other things) in IE. I personally have only been effected by the flash issues though so for now Im ignoring the rest.

My friend Dan pointed me towards SWFObject… a javascript by Geoff Stearns (visit him at blog.deconcept.com) which can be used to embed flash without any issues.

The invocation code is a little much for sites that are flash heavy… or people who just like to write as little code as possible. Dan had written a nifty little php script to insert all the javascript more easily… even his simplified code was too much for me though so I made my own.

Read on for examples, explanations and all kinds of stuff that will make your life easier if you care about this whole ActiveX problem…

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Filed in Wordpress Stuff Thursday May 4, 2006

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v0.2 Upgrade makes plugin work with titles containing ampersands and works better for people who are not using mod_rewrite for their urls. Also fixes IE ActiveX lawsuit problems with embed.

Heres the sIFR plugin I promised… It shouldnt be too confusing to install… the only potentially tricky parts are if people really wanna change the flash file…

Ive included the source FLA to make editing it really easy… Please read the comments in the FLA though… there a few really important points.

Anyway… for those of you who dont know what sIFR is… check out the original post I made: Flash Titles Like This One

For those of you who want the plugin and source files…

Downloads:

  • v0.1 Is available HERE
  • v0.2 is now available. I reccomend you upgrade. Download HERE

Please comment if you like… post a link to where you are using it so I can check it out… and if you have any problems that you think may be a bug… post a comment about it.

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Filed in Wordpress Stuff Tuesday May 2, 2006

So I was looking at the pligg forums the other day and found a post on sIFR in pligg templates. (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) Which is pretty much just using flash to display things in a page so you can controll style and whatnot better. (the post by Yankidank linked to this site for more info and examples)

Anyway I figure this would be pretty cool for wordpress so I made my own little test file to see how well it worked out… (more…)