IE7/IE8 compatibility ?

[Aymkdn]

IE7/IE8 compatibility ?

[yannickcr]

Hi,

Actually the ActionScript application must works under IE6/7/8/9 but the example is not compatible with IE bellow version 9.

I need to add some tricks to get it to work under these old versions (like addEventListener who is missing, or the non/poor support of Data URI who is also used to display the image in this example).

Thats why I need to make a javascript library (jQuery plugin ?) to remove all these blocking points and make it more easy to use under IE8/9 (maybe even in 6/7).

PS: Actually yes, I'm French too ;)

[Aymkdn]

Actually the events are not really a problem (with a little of jQuery it's easy... I'm sending a pull request with the changes), but even with that the Flash code doesn't seem to be loaded at all for IE8 : when doing a right-click on the button I don't see anything related to Flash that prouves it's not loaded... the question is why ? And how to debug a SWF object file into a page ? ^^

[Aymkdn]

Any chance you can have a look at this ? If it can work for IE8 (at least), then it will be soooo useful for the project I'm currently working on :-)

Thank you

PS: j'ai regardé ta photo et je vois qui tu es en fait ;-) J'avais pas fait gaffe !

[Aymkdn]

After searching, I discovered the flash object doesn't cover the button with < IE9... In moving it somewhere else in the page I've been able to click on it and use it... and it worked !! :-)

Merci !!

[yannickcr]

Yep, I noticed that too. The flash object is properly loaded but it goes behind the button. We have to find a way to put it on top (css hack ? or maybe it's relative to the flash object insertion code ?).

[Aymkdn]

So.... After several hours trying to figure out the reason, and with no interesting reply on stackoverflow.com about this issue, I finally decided to create my own file (in MXML) inspired by your work and some tutorials found on the Web. It creates its own button :-) See my work here : http://aymkdn.github.com/FileToDataURI/

[yannickcr]

Great !

But I'd like to get a transparent solution instead of a hard-coded button ;) I'm working on converting this in an easy-to-use jQuery plugin then I will look after this IE8 issue.

[yannickcr]

Should be good under IE7/8 now ;)

[Aymkdn]

The example doesn't work... I changed "../src/FileToDataURI.swf" by "../dist/FileToDataURI.swf" (because your file is inside dist), but it still doesn't work with IE8 : http://jessy.lagon-bleu.org/tmp/test/example/index.html

Any idea ??

[yannickcr]

Oups, a little mistake in the ActionScript file. Should really be ok now.

I also fixed the path in the example.

[Aymkdn]

It works! Well done :-)