swfobject

swfobject.embedSWF not working?

SWFObject 2.2 no longer works properly. The bug in SWFObject has already been reported on GitHub, but the library is unmaintained. The new “HTML by default” Flash policy starting at Chrome 55 does not initialize the variables that SWFObject uses to detect whether Flash is installed. Specifically, navigator.mimeTypes no longer contains application/x-shockwave-flash, unless Flash is … Read more

What is crossdomain.xml file?

“A cross-domain policy file is an XML document that grants a web client—such as Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Reader, etc.—permission to handle data across multiple domains.”. Taken from Adobe website http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/crossdomain_policy_file_spec.html. EDIT: Answer to question 2: Flex crossdomain.xml not working correctly in Chrome/Firefox?. Install Adobe Flash Player for developers, Fiddler (or similar), these tools should … Read more