Got what cracked, you ask?
Oh, I have just managed to get rid of that annoying MSIE message “Click to activate this control” when dealing with embedded flash or Windows Media Player.
I was a dunce for the longest time, not understanding how the famous swfobject solution worked until I actually saw it used on a site, as best example of the implementation of swfobject.
Then I decided I needed also the same thing for an embedded media player. My javascript knowledge is rather .. lacking .. so I wasn’t able to concoct it myself but I had a flash of genius (hehe!) and contacted Geoff Stearns who made swfobject and he wonderfully helped me out by giving me scripts and examples for … wmpobject. The wmpobject script was developed by Kovan Abdulla of www.imetasoft.com .
Yes, it only needed a tiny tweak, which even yours truly klutzy was able to make to have it work flawlessly the way I wanted it to work: with full controls or not, as desired.
After I got it all to work I got a bit braver and made extra tweaks to make it easier to use and more general, by adding a javascript function into the mix.
Both applications are documented and available for testing and downloading on my tutorial on embedding flash and tutorial on embedding video respectively. Ok, I’ve only tackled WMP video for now. The rest will follow …. hopefully.
Yes, I am quite pleased with myself and the outcome.
Thank you Geoff and Kovan. You’ve saved my sanity and quite likely that of many other webmasters battling the same problem. All thumbs up to you.
