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In
April 2006 Microsoft implemented a new security update to
Internet Explorer that by default blocks controls such as flash
movies that are loaded using EMBED, OBJECT or APPLET tags.
While the flash movies continue to display in Ban Man Pro, they
require a click in order to activate the movie so that the user
can click through to the advertisers web site.
To avoid this message on
pages which you server Ban Man Pro ads, here are some possible
solutions:
Using the non-IFRAME Ban Man
Pro ad tags:
1. You must be using the
non-IFRAME ad tags which use a simple Javascript SRC call for
serving ads. In Ban Man Pro version 6 these appear as the
first choice when clicking Zones--Code.
2. You must enter your
flash movies using a basic OBJECT/EMBED tag. To do this in
Ban Man Pro 5 and higher, use the Add Flash option then choose "Use
the code that will prompt the user to download flash if it is
not already installed on their computer.".
Using the Advanced Javascript
Ban Man Pro Ad Tags:
If you are using the
advanced javascript ad tags to serve ads on your site and you
entered the flash banner into Ban Man Pro using a simple <OBJECT
and <EMBED tag then you can...
1. Download the file
called FlashFix.zip. Unzip
the file and copy flashfix.js it to the folder where you
have installed Ban Man Pro. For example,
http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/
2. Now edit/update the
individual Ban Man Pro flash banners (View Banners, then click
Edit). Simply append this tag to the end of the ad code.
<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/flashfix.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
You must correct the URL
in the above code snippet to match the URL to your copy of
flashfix.js.
The completed code for
the flash banner might now look like this:
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"
WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="600">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/mymovie.swf?url=[BanManProURL]">
<PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<EMBED src="http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/mymovie.swf?url=[BanManProURL]"
menu=false quality=high swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH="120"
HEIGHT="600" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED></OBJECT>
<script src="http://www.yourdomain.com/banmanpro/flashfix.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
Additional Reading
regarding Macromedia's suggested workarounds as well as
Microsoft's:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/articles/devletter.html
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