FIX IT – Click to activate and use this control – Flash | I.E | Problem
Since Microsoft lost a legal battle on how they display multimedia conent in their browser, they’ve had to the change the way these content displays on screen. Now a user has to click these elements to start playing the flash animation.
This affects Flash files, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Java , Adobe Acrobat among others. It means users have to click the object first in order to activate its functions.
To fix the problem, please follow these steps:
1) Just below the last <object> in your HTML page, insert the following Javascript:
2) Open a new document in Notepad or your HTML editor, and copy & paste the following content into it:
theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++ )
{
theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}
3) Save this file as fixit.js
Thanks to Mix FX for this info: FIX IT – Click to activate and use this control – Flash | Java | I.E | Problem
This one doesnt work for me, it never loads in the swf unfortuneately.
Here is a different solution that may fix the problem for your site:
Click to activate and use this control fix
For me it causes pages to not work and to fail validation. Validation fails for unknown attribute “mce_src” and “xsrc”. A quick check shouws these attributes are not validat html or xhtml.
What are they?
thanks
Hi Paul,
It looks like wordpress had mangled up the code which was pasted in. I’ve corrected the code above.
Code not correct …
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i )
must be …
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++ )
^
Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve fixed it in the article