Question

I am trying to generate an <object> tag only embed code and cannot get Firefox to pass Flash along the FlashVars values. This seems to work everyplace else that I’ve tried it but fails in Firefox. Here is a sample of the embed that I’m using:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="Main" align="middle" data="Main.swf">
<param name="movie" value="Main.swf" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
<param name="FlashVars" value="foo=1" />
</object>

Please note that the Flash experience does show up in Firefox but when I do traces and actually run the application this fails to read the values. This has had me scratching my head for a day and I’m pretty stumped. If anyone has any guidance on this it would relly be appreciated.

Answer 1

have you tried

<param name="movie" value="Main.swf?foo=1" />

An ‘oldschool’ way of passing parameters to the SWF.