Flash + IE bug after recent update

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Hey everyone,

I'm creating pages containing several Flash movies on each page:

http://www.derekfranklin.com/weddingboxx/honeymoon.php

Some of the Flash content is embedded using the JavaScript fix (the
workaround for the Eolas nonsense), and some is still embedded with <embed>
tags (something out of my control, as this Flash content is provided by a 3rd
party).

Anyway, I have the recent update to IE installed (to address the Eolas
patent), and now when I visit the link above, scroll to the very bottom of
the page, then scroll back up, some of the JavaScript embedded controls die -
they can't be interacted with at all.

Only refreshing the page, or clicking to activate the Flash content embedded
with the <embed> tags will reactive these dead Flash movies.

Any ideas? Is this a known bug?

Thanks!

Derk
 
Any word on this?

It seems to be a pretty serious bug, unless I'm missing something.

Put JavaScript and non-JavaSript objects on the same page and the updated IE
kills some of the JavaScript ojects.

Any insight/thoughts would be appreciated, unless no noe here has a clue
what can be done about it.

I was figuring someone from the IE team regularly checks this discussion
board.

Thanks

Derek
 
The EOLAS change means you *must* click to activate embedded content.

Scrolling in and of itself should not cause an issue, although I do remember
something about issues caused by third party apps such as some toolbars.
 
Hey Sandy,

Yeah, I was aware of the new functionality of clicking the control to make
it active - that's expected. What I was experiencing on my page was not that.

Please reread my issue. Flash movies were sporadically being deactivated -
Flash movies that worked fine on one page view (an had the workaround applied
to them), but when refreshed they couldn't be interacted with.

The sample page I submitted has been altered, so you can't see it in action
there anymore, but I would suspect that if you try placing several
'workaround' Flash movies on the same page as several 'non-workaround' Flash
movies, you'll see what I mean.

It is a bug, because I was able to reproduce it consistently.

Thank you!

Derek
 
Hello Sandi,
The EOLAS change means you *must* click to activate embedded content.
Click to expand...

In the first moment, I thought that too, but when I read the documentation,
actually only content that is directly embedded within the html page is
affected. Content embedded by external JavaScript needs no activation.

Non-activated content is still loaded as usual except that the user cannot
interact (click etc.) before the object is activated.

Viktor
http://www.quero.at/
 
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