[SIZE=1](I posted this to the SWFObject mailing list first, but have not gotten an answer, so I thought I would try here since there are so many people who use SWFObject. 
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The problem is with sites such as http://www.goexposed.com, which is set up to auto-detect Flash Player 8 (and Iāve changed the settings many times to try to find something that works, e.g. having Express Install turned on, turned off, version requirement set to 8, 8.0.22, 0, etc.). Hereās the problem: in certain Windows (XP and 2000, most/all not patched with the āclick here to activateā) computers with IE 6 and Flash Player 7, it skips right over the version detection and tries to play the movie. But since the movie is Flash 8, it loads, does the opening animation, but none of the clickable areas work. It works fine if we switch to Macromediaās generated detection script, but of course that has the āclick here to activateā problem with all the other users for whom it works perfectly fine. At any rate, the problem exists with both the current version of SWFObject and the older FlashObject version.
Further, the problem isnāt limited to goexposed.com; the problem has also crept up on SimpleViewer galleries (for instance, which doesnāt even use SWFObject IIRC), which also silently fail (not clickable) on these same computers. Itās very frustrating because the alternate content does not show up (because the Flash object is rendered) but the Flash doesnāt work properly, either.
Any ideas would be much appreciated; Iām fairly sure that this not just an issue with us, since the same computers seem to fail pretty much across the board on many different Flash websites. Itās just that these computers that fail are few and far betweenā¦ maybe a handful of users out of hundreds. Anybody else experienced the same thing?
Also, didnāt there used to be a way to do version detection inside the Flash movie? Does that still exist? It seems like that would be an easy/quick fix if so, since at the bare minimum we need a āyou must updateā message.
