Firefox and Adobe Flash Player

[Alex Janssen]

Richard Mancusi said the following on 01/25/2008 11:55 PM:
> Glad I was able to show you a way to get at your data.  You are correct, I
> can't get at the toyota site either but I can get on http://www.miniusa.com
> which is a fairly complex site.  Same holds true with printing postage from
> USPS site.  I can't do it with Firefox (and others can) but I can with Opera.
> I believe it has to do with "other" packages interfering.  Because in each
> case I matched what others were using for the main stuff (Flash, etc.).
> I have seen this with the MLB site.  In order to listen to the broadcasts
> a specific group of packages had to be loaded.  However, if you loaded
> them, you could no longer capture audio/video to your cache.  I believe
> it will be something very subtle.  For me it wasn't worth the time.  I can
> now get at my credit card data and have figured ways around everything
> else while retaining those things that were important to me.  I also
> suspect that those who can resolve some of these pages are unable to
> do some of the things I want to do.
>
> good luck
> -rich
>
>   
The miniusa.com site is properly written.  Everything works.  I don't 
understand what's so hard about making a web page work right that 
prevents other site developers from paying attention to it.

Not to go too deep here, but the code differences between the citicard 
page and the miniusa page are significant in respect to the preparation 
for the Flash display.  See below.   The citicards code follows the 
miniusa code. 
Note the section in the miniusa code starting with "// check for 
firefox".  This code is totally absent in citicards code.

miniusa.com code ...

<script type="text/javascript">
            // <![CDATA[
                var deeplink = null;
                if (document.location.hash != null && 
document.location.hash.length > 1) {
                    deeplink = document.location.hash.substring(1, 
document.location.hash.length);
                }

                var so = new SWFObject("/MINI_shell.swf", "website", 
"960", "595", "8", "#000000");
                so.useExpressInstall('/js/expressinstall.swf');
                so.addParam('menu', 'false');
                so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
                so.setAttribute("redirectUrl", "/crm/no_flash.jsp");

                if (deeplink != null && deeplink.length > 0) {
                    so.addVariable("deepLink", deeplink);
                    // traknet
                    writeToTraknet('/crm/images/trackDeeplink.gif');
                    // webtrends Deeplink tracking call
                    DCS.dcsuri = "/deeplink";
                    WT.ti = "Deeplink";
                    WT.cg_n = "Deeplink";
                    dcsTag();
                } else {
                    // traknet
                    writeToTraknet('/crm/images/trackHome.gif');
                    // webtrends
                    dcsTag();
                }
                // check for firefox
                if (BrowserDetect.browser == 'Firefox') {
                    so.addVariable("isFirefox", 1);
                } else {
                    so.addVariable("isFirefox", 0);
                }
                so.write('flashcontent');
            // ]]>
            </script>

typical citicard.com code ...
<script type="text/javascript">
var svcFlashContainer = 'swf/hpAdCont.swf';
Event.addEvent(window,"load",function(){checkAndShowFlash('promoSecurity',svcFlashContainer,'212','281','#ffffff','<a 
ID="cmlink_CitiHEL_img" 
href="http://citi.bridgetrack.com/mhe/07/he/variablerate/default.htm?sc=175" 
target="_top" title=""  ><img ID="cmimage_CitiHEL_img" 
src="img/5-3_CitiHEL.jpg " width="212" height="281" border="0" alt="Citi 
Home Equity Line" title="Citi Home Equity Line" 
 ></img></a>',"/cards/wv/swf/es_cash_memory2.swf");});
</script>

Citicard makes no effort for Firefox at all!
I'm sure its the same for Toyota.

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