Flash Banners not working in IE7

Question

Hi,
On our websites we sell advertising space and allow our
customers to use flash banners as advertising. We have had this
system in place for several years, but all of a sudden it has
stopped working in IE7, much to the displeasure of our customer.
The system we have had in place is that we ask our customers to put
the following action script in their banner:
on (press)
getURL("fscommand:click");
When the banner is clicked it calls the associated java
script:
function Banner1234_DoFSCommand(command, args)
if (command == 'click')
window.open('
http://www.website.com')
This use to work in IE7, but doesn't seem to any more. This
system still works in FireFox, Opera, Chrome, Safari and IE6. If
anyone has any idea why this would no longer works in IE7 it would
be much appreciated, and any kind of work around would be
fantastic.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Ryan

Answer 1

Hi,
I have managed to solve my own problem and thought that I
should share the solution for any one having a similar problem.
The problem was that the flash file I was displaying was
stored on a different domain to the website I wanted to display the
flash file on. This activated a little documented (as far as I can
tell anyway) and rather annoying feature of IE7 called
"Cross-Domain Protection". This feature appears to prevent you from
clicking flash files that are sourced from other domains, so to
solve the problem I moved the file to the same domain and it works
fine.
We store many different file types and various pieces of
content for our websites on different domains to the ones they are
displayed on, and I have only encountered this problem with flash
files, why this would be the case is beyond me, but there it is.
Thanks,
Ryan