We're doing browser testing on our site before launch and just noticed that on IE 7 (v7.0.5730.13), the version of Flash we have installed is too old. On a fresh install of IE8 on a new computer, Flash isn't installed. This is causing YouTube (and probably other) videos to not appear. The problem is that nothing appears - we get a blank area roughly the size of the embedded video, and then any text that would have been below the video is shown. There's no error that the problem is an old version of Flash.

I confirmed that the issue is Flash by going directly to the YouTube site and selecting a random movie to watch. It tells me "Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player". Upgrading the version of flash fixes the issue on both our site and YouTube.

Is there a way to serve a similar error in this situation? it looks weird with just a big white space.

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jaybee1001’s picture

jaybee1001 commented

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hefox’s picture

hefox commented

I've had the same issue; no warning on ie 7 without flash installed.

jaybee1001’s picture

jaybee1001 commented

It is a pity that this is going to be only thing my client comments on, rather than the good stuff.

MAINTAINERS: any chance of a patch PLEASE????

Wappie08’s picture

Wappie08 commented

I noticed the same issue with a clean install of Chrome.. I do not have knowledge about flash messages but there are some posts in other modules, maybe that will help:

The SWFObject API (module) has a message: http://drupal.org/node/257043

And in SWF Tools a similar issue is reported: http://drupal.org/node/307554
And somethings about adding support for javascript replacement methods: http://drupal.org/node/303203

Greetings Wappie

alex ua’s picture

alex ua commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

this is a problem with the flash module you are using (SWF Tools or SWFObject API), so please reopen in one of those module's issue queue if you're still having a problem.

gaele’s picture

gaele commented
Version: 6.x-1.5 » 6.x-1.25
Category: support » bug
Status: Closed (won't fix) » Active

The issues mentioned in #4 are about Flash not being installed.

This issue is about an installed Flash version being too old. The problem is that the message generated by Flash to upgrade to a newer version is not displayed.

(BTW I don't have SWF Tools or SWFObject API installed.)