Why won't my flash play on a Mac?

[civicworldwide]

I made a flash movie and tried to put it up on different websites using different html to try and see if it was a problem there... I've found that it always plays on a pc (IE) and never plays on a Mac (Safari and Firefox). It has to be the file not the code because I've even used the same code we have up for other movies.

Is there any reason why my file won't play for a mac? Is there some setting I may have changed before making it into a .swf? I'm grasping at straws now!

[CyanBlue]

Howdy and Welcome... :)

Generally speaking, you should not see the difference just because you are on the different OS...

What is the URL you have posted the files???
What is the HTML code you are using???
What browser are you using to visit the page???

[civicworldwide]

Thanks!

This is the flash URL: http://www.civicworldwide.org/storage/civic/flash/civicflash.swf

This is the test page I made:
http://www.civicworldwide.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=213&Itemid=119

And this is the code that was used on the main page (www.civicworldwide.org) that was used to put up the original flash that's still up there now. I used the same code on my test page, only with a different file name. I also tried using the html exactly as flash gives you, but here's the one that definately works for the other file:


<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="400" height="400" align="undefined" vspace="undefined" hspace="undefined">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.civicworldwide.org/storage/civic/flash/flashOnHP.swf" />
<param name="src" value="http://www.civicworldwide.org/storage/civic/flash/flashOnHP.swf" />
<param name="play" value="undefined" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="scale" value="undefined" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="menu" value="undefined" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="undefined" />
<param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="undefined" />
<param name="loop" value="undefined" />
<embed src="http://www.civicworldwide.org/storage/civic/flash/flashOnHP.swf" scale="undefined" wmode="transparent" play="undefined" quality="high" menu="undefined" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="400" align="undefined" bgcolor="undefined" AllowScriptAccess="undefined" loop="undefined" hspace="undefined" vspace="undefined"></embed></object>
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I viewed the test page (with success) on a PC with IE. On the mac I viewed it with both Safari and Firefox, and it worked on neither.

[CyanBlue]

Well... First of all, you might want to check that page on FF and IE on PC... It doesn't look right on FF...
Also, do something about all those 'undefined' you have there... Plug in the right values and then start looking for the loose end...

[civicworldwide]

That's what I figured.

The weird problem is I HAVE fixed all the 'undefined's, because that struck me as wrong too. For some reason my CMS automatically removes any changes I make to that.

If that strikes you as the main problem then I'll just have to harass my CMS again.

Thank you!

[CyanBlue]

Well... I don't know much about customizing the Joomla, but if you are editing the template itself, the change should be permanent... But you are saying that the change gets reverted to the previous data, so I am thinking maybe you are not editing the right file... Not sure...