For the project V-Factor we integrated a couple of Floorplanner widgets into their site. We used iframes to embed the widgets into the pages. You can click on the link next to the widget to get a better view of the floor plan. A new window with a full screen Floorplanner is opened.
On Firefox and Safari everything runned like a charm, but when we tested it on Internet Explorer it sometimes crashed. And it crashed hard, IE shuts down completly (after it alerts that Flash9d.ocx is to blame). Stange that the Flash Player can crash IE…
Anyway, we still havn’t figured out the exact cause. We have two theories. The first is that IE doesn’t like embeded Flash content via an iframe in multiple windows. The other theory is that IE doesn’t like different ways of embedding Flash content in multiple windows. The page contains more Flash content then our widgets. It has a banner and some animated buttons. We use SWFObject but the banner and the buttons are using the old skool object-tag.
Phew… we kind of solved the problem by opening the full screen floor plan in the same window as the widgets. That way we don’t have multiple windows open with flash content. But it’s not a real solution of course.
To be continued…
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October 30th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
there is a known bug with ie and flash player.
if you load content with big file sizes it crashes…
somewhere in the support forums is a thread about this issue…
we experienced the same bug when loading big image files.
hope it helps you.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Hhhhmm, could be. But I don’t think we’re loading very big files in the application. I’ll check it out.
Thanks for the suggestion!