External Interface not bieng called

programming flash
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Hi folks,

i have little problem, i am trying to communicate from javascript to AS3 by using External Interfaces, now the problem is that the function i am trying to call works fine with Internet Explorer 8, but it doesn’t works with firefox 3.5.9 or google chrome, below is the html / javascript code.


<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
        <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            swfobject.registerObject("chatApplication", "9.0.0");
            
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
            var currentUser="someuser";
            //function that get called by clicking on a link / button
            function setCurrentUser(newUser) 
            {
            //alert(currentUser);
            currentUser = newUser;
            SendDataToFlashMovie(currentUser);
            }
            
            // function that get the required flash movie from the page
            //you need to pass in the embed id of swf file which in this 
            //case is "myFlashConten".
            
            function getFlashMovieObject(movieName){
                 if (window.document[movieName]) 
                 {
                  return window.document[movieName];
                 }
                 if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet")==-1)
                 {
                    if (document.embeds && document.embeds[movieName])
                          return document.embeds[movieName]; 
                 }
                 else if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft Internet")!=-1)
                 {
                    return document.getElementById(movieName);
                 }

            }

            //the actual function that will call function inside flash player
            function SendDataToFlashMovie(newUser){
                
                var test=getFlashMovieObject("chatApplication");
                alert(test);
                test.SendUserName(newUser);
            }
    </script>
        <div>
            <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="950" height="650" id="chatApplication">
                <param name="movie" value="chatApp.swf" />
                <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
                <param name="allownetworking" value="all" />
                <param name="flashvars" value="username=iamuser1" />
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="chatApp.swf" width="950" height="650">
                    <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
                    <param name="allownetworking" value="all" />
                    <param name="flashvars" value="username=iamuser1" />
                <!--<![endif]-->
                    <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">
                        <img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
                    </a>
                <!--[if !IE]>-->
                </object>
                <!--<![endif]-->
            </object>
        </div>
        
        <a href="javascript:void(0);" onClick="setCurrentUser('iamuser2')">Set Current User</a>
        
    </body>
</html>