Internet Explorer 7 - Problem with flash animations
Here is a trick that can help when in Internet Explorer 7, when a flash animation is replaced by a gray frame that you have to click to start the animation.
Just use this simple script.
/*
activateActiveX
---------------
Purpose: Dynamically replace any elements that will be affected by the new security feature in IE6/IE7 that requires a user to click certain types of elements to activate them before use.
Usage: Include this file at the end of your html document using the following...
<script language="JScript" type="text/jscript" src="activateActiveX.js"></script>
Since this script is in response to a software patent lawsuit, I feel it necessary to state the following...
License:
activateActiveX is Copyright (C) 2006 Jason Baker (therippa AT gmail.com). It is available as open source code from: http://therippa.blogspot.com
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html*/
//Determine browser, we only need this for Internet Explorer
if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
//Array of elements to be replaced
var arrElements = new Array(3);
arrElements[0] = "object";
arrElements[1] = "embed";
arrElements[2] = "applet";
//Loop over element types
for (n = 0; n < arrElements.length; n++) {
//set object for brevity
replaceObj = document.getElementsByTagName(arrElements[n]);
//loop over element objects returned
for (i = 0; i < replaceObj.length; i++ ) {
//set parent object for brevity
parentObj = replaceObj[i].parentNode;
//grab the html inside of the element before removing it from the DOM
newHTML = parentObj.innerHTML;
//remove element from the DOM
parentObj.removeChild(replaceObj[i]);
//stick the element right back in, but as a new object
parentObj.innerHTML = newHTML;
}
}
}
Then place a link to your file before the closing </ body> tag of the pages that are problematic:
<script language="JScript" type="text/jscript" src="activateActiveX.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
It should be, no need of having to click to start the animation.
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