Active Content Issue

http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/temp/various-flash-tests/flash-fix-test.html
hi - go to the above. i followed the instructions and info
from other postings and am able to get an HTML page generated by
Flash to take care of that IE browser active content problem.
http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu/temp/various-flash-tests/fix-embedded.html
then go to the above link. this is the SWF file placed onto a
blank HTML page with Dreamweaver. Obviously, the active content fix
does not work now. so my question is how do i get this to work when
i want to place flash content on my page through using DW?
I read somewhere that i may need to link up the JS file. can
someone help me with that? PS - i'm not good with writing JS code.
thanks.

Deaf Mike,
> I read somewhere that i may need to link up the JS file.
can
> someone help me with that? PS - i'm not good with
writing
> JS code.
The IE Active Content issue is a pretty popular one lately,
as you can
imagine. The easiest, most convenient solution I know of is
to use a tiny
JavaScript application called FlashObject. -- Scratch that. I
just learned
that the developer felt compelled by Adobe to change the name
of his free
product to SWFObject. (Sigh.) Okay, so it's SWFObject, then.
And a
beautiful piece of code it is. Give it a shot, Mike. Very
easy to use.
But if you have questions, write back.
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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Hmmm, well I'll see if I can help any. I'm not sure what you
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2. Before the fix is applied, the user must click or press
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> would fix it, but although I can see that the extension
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> change
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1. Open Notepad or another program for creating text files.
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function insertMaster2() {
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moved was already in <script> tags in the HTM file. The
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that in wf_master.htm, but there are a few lines less this time.
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function in your JS file. Where you cut out the code from
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over the ones that RoboHelp created.
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