Flash in IE vs FFox

[gtruk9]

I would like to fix this version of the SnippetMaster to work with Firefox so it does NOT take out the embedding that can be seen only in IE. I found this answer on this board and just reiterate and ask if this fixes the problem for FFox so I do not take tons of time making it work.

I know I am probably using some old coding but please let me know what can be done to when snippet tagging the whole page -- why does it REWRITE the embed coding and then when you go to look at it in Fire Fox or Mozilla, all the flash is NOT VISIBLE anymore..

Isn't this a big problem for most people using SnippetMaster? I posted about this a few times but noone seems to answer on this
What am I doing wrong/ I am not a coder and SnippetMaster was supposed to be easy to set up --- Thanks in advance GT

[Jenkinhill]

This will not be a problem for most people, because very few will use embedded Flash. And those that do are not likely to include a Flash object in the snippet because there is nothing there for the program to edit.

There is a problem with Flash movies within a page in that it has usually been embedded - something that is incompatible with valid XHTML. I don't know how you are embedding Flash, but the following is XHTML compliant.

Code:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="c.swf?path=movie.swf"
width="400" height="300">
<param name="movie"
value="c.swf?path=movie.swf" />
</object>

This will work in FF etc and also in IE, but in IE it will not stream unless you include some actionscript in the first frame of the movie. Sorry I can't recall the code for that as I don't use Flash. The full XHTML validation list installed with SnippetMaster does include all these parameters, so it should parse OK using the full XHTML ruleset - as long as the rest of the page is XHTML1.0 and with a correct DTD.

The programmers of tinyMCE, the editor in the core of SnippetMaster, have just released the alpha of a new tinyMCE version which does offer support for Flash. How long that will take to get to stable release, or if Henri would be able to use it in SnippetMaster, I have no idea.

SnippetMaster is very easy to set up and works exceptionally well with valid code - this is why it is poplular. It was never intended to be used as a full page editor, but to enable users/owners of websites to be able to edit and update parts of their pages.

[gtruk9]

I realize that the snippetmaster program was made to use for updating parts of pages for the most part.
However -- because of certain aspects of this particular site, I needed to put the snippet tags to include the whole page.

The problem is not so much that I intended editable area where the flash is, but that when I placed the snippet tags for the whole page, the snippet editor did not effect or disrupt the rest of the page.... The aspect I do not understand is why does the snippetmaster program totally rewrite the embedded areas of the flash then making it unviewable in other browsers like FF or Mozzila.

I guess the best way to do this is to move the tags to only editable areas exclusively.

Thanks
GT