Question

I’ve been asked to look into an issue where flash ads are not displaying in IE.

The site, http://www.outbacktravelshop.com.au/ has a number of ads under the map in the right column. 5 of these are flash and these 5 flash ads do not show in IE (testing on a Windows 7 VM on IE9… also IE8 and IE7 via IETester). If you have a look at them in any other browser on PC or Mac they display.

Does anyone know why these may not be showing in IE?

Answer 1

Many people use SWFObject to embed flash as it deals with the various browser quirks for you.

You can then embed the Flash like this:

<script>

var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
var attributes = {};

swfobject.embedSWF("myContent.swf", "myContent", "300", "120", "9.0.0","expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params, attributes);

</script>