Okay...so apparently with the new update in IE8, it starts up with NO add-ons. Since I cannot program a code to turn on add-ons in a browser, I need to show a message when this occurs. Much like an image has alternative text in the event the image doesn't load...how can I add a message that states:
You are using Internet Explorer 8+ and need to turn on your add-ins like FLASH Player. This site is optimized for Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
ANy suggestions?
Like this:
<object ...>
<param ... />
You are using a browser that does not have Flash player enabled.
Please turn on your Flash player plugin.
</object>
This will display the appropriate message to any visitor (whether they're using IE8 or another browser) if they have Flash disabled.
Alternatively, you could use swfobject.js or similar, which will insert the Flash movie into a <div>. And if Flash is unavailable, the content that is already inside the <div> will be displayed instead.
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I was given an interactive pdf file, it has a slide with a small slideshow (3 slides) when looked at that particular slide. There is a play button and stop button at the bottom that appears/disappears if you move your mouse over it, and we can choose to play it or stop it. I don't know if its a video though. But, there is some interactivity in that slide. I tried to embed this pdf in an HTML file iframe. It works for the most part but the interactivity doesn't work in chrome: I have Version 53.0.2785.143 m of chrome.
However, not sure if by fluke or what, in IE 11 its working. Any ideas on how this can be made to work on chrome? I am using a simple iframe
<iframe src="file://C:\Users\svboll\embed-pdf\Interactive.pdf"
style="width:718px; height:700px;"
frameborder="0"></iframe>
IE 11 uses the Adobe Reader plugin (if available and it sounds like it is) to display the PDF in the iFrame so you'll see the interactivity play correctly there. Edge doesn't and neither does Chrome. Chrome uses it's own built-in PDF viewer which doesn't support most interactivity. For interactive PDF, you simply will not be able to create a consistent experience of PDF in an iframe across browsers, platforms, and devices. This is not a limitation of PDF, it's a limitation of the viewers in that they have not fully implemented the PDF specification.
How does chrome know which tabs are playing some sound? Alternatively, how does chrome know which tabs to put the speaker sign on?
This article may be useful:
From ghacks.net:
"Google Chrome uses an internal version of Adobe Flash which Google can use to determine when Flash is being used for audio playback.
Mozilla does not have that luxury. While it is working on a patch to display indicators when HTML5 is being used for audio playback, it cannot do anything about plug-in contents on its own."
Assuming that's correct, then from there it's not hard to imagine that if they know of every single instance of flash being used for audio playback, that they probably have an associated property indicating which tab it is on.
There's a section on my site where I display data from another site, using:
<embed src="URL"></embed>
I recently discovered that this works fine for most people, but that Firefox users get an error telling them they need to install a plugin. I searched around for a solution and people seemed to find that specifying the MIME type worked:
<embed type="text/html" src="URL"></embed>
But this isn't working. I can switch to iFrames, but I dislike how they display the information. Any other suggestions?
Per spec, embed elements are only handled via plug-ins or an SVG renderer (and in the latter case behave just like iframe).
You can do <object data="URL"></object>, but of course that will also behave like iframe...
I've been having the same issue with an html5 game. It appears that Firefox doesn't support if you want to embed an external html file. This tag should only be used for plugins.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/embed
To embed an external html file into another page in Firefox you have to use iframe or object tags instead. For the interactive nature of my external page I used iframe and it worked in IE / Chrome and FF, I had to make the margins larger than the game itself.
I have a question. I know youtube has supported html5 for some time, so I just tried disabling the adobe flash plugin and took a look at the page source. I found no video tag. Could anybody explain that?
Using chrome, after disabling Flash, I do get a warning when trying to watch videos ("You need Flash!"), but it detects that I don't have flash, and uses the HTML5 version instead. If you use Chrome, you can look at the DOM with the developer tools (F12), and you'll indeed find a video tag in the video-container div, e.g.
<video class="video-stream" x-webkit-airplay="allow" src="http://o-o.preferred.twtelecom-dfw1.v15.lscache5.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?sparams=cp%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Cratebypass%2Csource%2Cexpire&fexp=900161&itag=43&ip=207.0.0.0&signature=55FCBF36A597656FECBEC8E78051B3BD30EE8D97.8F8D573710D767EAF4429FBC54C940DF7611A1BE&sver=3&ratebypass=yes&source=youtube&expire=1330650696&key=yt1&ipbits=8&cp=U0hSRVZQTl9OUENOMl9OSlJHOlBlcHJOMW9PSHhH&id=381980b5e867a1c5" data-youtube-id="OBmAtehnocU"></video>
For almost everything Google does on the web they use javascript. Most likely what is happening is that they test the browser to make sure it supports HTML5 video, they then load the the video dynamically using javascript.
To verify, use a web browser tool to inspect the current html as it's shown, not as it's sent to the browser.
And as Marius noted, be sure to have HTML5 enabled
We allow users of our application to embed a webpage containing a set of thumbnails into another third party webpage/blog etc. The embedding is done by using an object tag.
Each thumbnail provides an option to download original file. When user clicks on this option, the embedded content is disappearing in Safari 5.1.1 and Chrome 15.0 and instead "Could not render embedded content" is shown. Whereas FF 8.0 works correctly i.e. the embedded page stays there even after download, as it should.
The embed code we are using is like this -
<object data="http://myserver.com/em.aspx?e=FytXStk=" height="600" width="900" type="text/html">
<p>Could not render embedded content.</p>
</object>
Can anyone see what might be wrong here? Thanks.
I had to add target="_parent" for the download link. That did the trick.
Actually, if you just choose "Shockwave" instead of "Flash" from the drop down menu for video type, it all works perfectly.
Joomla Core Team has gotta do a better job on notifying developers and webmasters. It's obviously not obvious.