Re: FN-FORUM: problem with flash and IE7

date posted 25th February 2008 14:40

>
> I recently made a change to the landing page of a website so that it shows
> a short flash video (chosen randomly). Previously we had used quicktime
> but the speed was too slow for some machines. I converted the files to SWF
> using Flash Video Studio 2.0.
>
> Someone using IE7 has now reported really peculiar behaviour. The video
> plays. She then logs in as a member and leaves that page and then goes to
> one of the articles pages (so two steps now from the original landing
> page) and then suddenly it returns to the landing page showing a video
> again.
>
> (In the normal navigation scheme it is not even possible for logged in
> members to navigate back to that page unless they log out but she says she
> remains logged in.)
>
> I believe there are some known problems with IE7 and flash but am not very
> experienced with flash and so do not know if this would be the cause. Has
> anyone any notion of what might be going on?
>

Could they :

1. be running 64 bit os? Vista 64 has some very strange flash interactions
WHEN it works at all.

2. have a hijacked browser that generally runs silently?

Flash issues are more likely but...

John