This has become a VERY common problem on flash sites in the last couple of
weeks, and fortunatly, there is a very easy solution. Basically here's what's
going on with your site. If you look at your site on a PC using Internet
Explorer, any flash items now show up with a funny box around them.
This didn' t start happening until a few weeks ago when Microsoft lost a
lawsuit that forced it to change the way Internet Explorer "embeds" items (like
flash) into it's web pages. So if you look at it in any browser except IE, it
looks just fine. People in IE will still be able to see the flash pieces, but
they have to click on the page to make the box go away.
So here's the easy fix. There are several ways I've seen to fix this, but
this seems to be the quickest and easiest.
Step 1) Make file on your computer called ie_bug.js then cut & paste the
following in to it (be sure to stop before you get to step 2).
theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}
// fix for Microsoft's IE Bug.
Step 2) upload that file into the root of your web site.
Step 3) in the page that has the flash, put this in the html after (very
important) the flash. Be sure to change the link from your_website.com to your
actual web adress.
<script type="text/javascript"
src="
http://www.your_website.com/ie_bug.js"></script>
Step 4) Tell everyone you know to switch to FireFox and we won't have these
problems any more.
www.firefox.com