Embed works in Firefox and Safari, but not in Internet Explorer 8

Question

I have a flash-based ad that displays/hides based on some javascript. It works in Firefox, Safari, Chrome ... but not in Internet Explorer 8. This is for donations to a non-profit during the holiday season, so any help would be wonderful.

See the test site.

Thank you! Peter

  <div class="grid_12 alpha omega">
    <script type="text/javascript">
      GA_googleFillSlot("360_dropdown");
    </script><script src="http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?correlator=1323096793738&amp;output=json_html&amp;callback=GA_googleSetAdContentsBySlotForSync&amp;impl=s&amp;client=ca-pub-1030295571732009&amp;slotname=360_dropdown&amp;page_slots=360_dropdown&amp;cookie_enabled=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fdemo-studio360.wnyc.net%2F&amp;lmt=1323096764&amp;dt=1323096793743&amp;biw=1201&amp;bih=961&amp;adk=203353989&amp;ifi=1&amp;u_tz=-360&amp;u_his=2&amp;u_java=true&amp;u_h=1200&amp;u_w=1920&amp;u_ah=1174&amp;u_aw=1920&amp;u_cd=24&amp;u_nplug=10&amp;u_nmime=85&amp;flash=11.0.1&amp;gads=v2&amp;ga_vid=901695308.1323096794&amp;ga_sid=1323096794&amp;ga_hid=1643565815"></script><div id="google_ads_div_360_dropdown_ad_container"><script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pri.org/developer/js/flash_v3005.js"></script>

  var pop_suppress = "true";

        function show_div(div_id) {

            // hide all the divs

            document.getElementById('pencil').style.display = 'none';

            document.getElementById('expand').style.display = 'none';

            document.getElementById('intro583325').style.display = 'none';

            // show the requested div

            document.getElementById(div_id).style.display = 'block';

        }

        function auto_show_div(div_id) {

            // hide all the divs

            document.getElementById('pencil').style.display = 'none';

            document.getElementById('expand').style.display = 'none';

            document.getElementById('intro583325').style.display = 'none';

            // show the requested div

            document.getElementById(div_id).style.display = 'block';

        }

<div style="position: absolute; top: 1px; right: 1px;">

    <a href="" onclick="show_div('expand'); return false;" style="outline: none;"><img src="http://www.pri.org/developer/images/adtop_expand.png" alt="Expand Ad" border="0" height="23" width="23"></a>

</div>

// var SOB=new flashObj(); var enc_goto = escape("http://secure.publicbroadcasting.net/pri/banner/pledge.pledgemain"); var enc_goto2 = escape(""); SOB.ID = "reexpand_ad"; SOB.flashFile = "http://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2011/Nov/30/360pushdown.swf"; SOB.DenyIEdl = "TRUE"; SOB.wmode = "opaque"; SOB.width = "960"; SOB.height = "230"; SOB.FlashVer = 9; SOB.cabVersion = "9,0,0,0"; SOB.altTxt = '<a href="http://www.pri.org/give-pri.html" target="_new">Give to PRI</a>'; SOB.render(true); //]]>

    <a href="" onclick="show_div('pencil'); return false;" style="outline: none;"><img src="http://www.pri.org/developer/images/adtop_collapse.png" alt="Contract Ad" border="0" height="23" width="23"></a>

</div>

//<! [CDATA[

    var SOB=new flashObj();

    var enc_goto = escape("http://secure.publicbroadcasting.net/pri/banner/pledge.pledgemain");

    var enc_goto2 = escape("");



    SOB.ID = "intro_ad";

    SOB.flashFile = "http://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2011/Nov/30/360pushdown.swf";

    SOB.DenyIEdl = "TRUE";

    SOB.wmode = "opaque";

    SOB.width = "960";

    SOB.height = "230";

    SOB.FlashVer = 9;

    SOB.cabVersion = "9,0,0,0";

    //SOB.altTxt = '<a href="http://www.pri.org/give-pri.html" target="_new">Give to PRI</a>';

    SOB.render(true);

//]]>

</script><embed src="http://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2011/Nov/30/360pushdown.swf" swliveconnect="FALSE" quality="best" scale="exactfit" flashvars="null" wmode="opaque" id="intro_ad" name="flash2" menu="false" devicefont="false" salign="lt" allowscriptaccess="Always" allownetworking="All" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" height="230" width="960">

<div style="position: absolute; top: 1px; right: 1px;">

    <a href="" onclick="show_div('pencil'); return false;" style="outline: none;"><img src="http://www.pri.org/developer/images/adtop_collapse.png" alt="Contract Ad" border="0" height="23" width="23"></a>

</div>

//["ID of content to frequency cap", "Display frequency interval (full hours only)"] var capcontent=new Array() capcontent[0]=["intro583325", "24 hr"] function get_cookie(Name) { var search = Name + "=" var returnvalue = ""; if (document.cookie.length > 0) {

offset = document.cookie.indexOf(search)

if (offset != -1) { // if cookie exists

  offset += search.length

  end = document.cookie.indexOf(";", offset);

  if (end == -1)

     end = document.cookie.length;

  returnvalue=unescape(document.cookie.substring(offset, end))

  }

} return returnvalue; } function resetcookie(id){ var expireDate = new Date() expireDate.setHours(expireDate.getHours()-10) document.cookie = id+"=;path=/;expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString() } function showorhide(caparray){ if (get_cookie(caparray[0])!=''){ document.write("#"+caparray[0]+"{display: none;}\n")//CSS TO HIDE CONTENT BTW FREQUENCY document.getElementById('pencil').style.display = 'block'; }else{ var t=setTimeout("auto_show_div('pencil')",14000); var expireDate = new Date() expireDate.setHours(expireDate.getHours()+parseInt(caparray[1])) document.cookie = caparray[0]+"="+parseInt(caparray[1])+";path=/;expires=" + expireDate.toGMTString() } } document.write('\n') for (i=0; i')

  </div>

Answer 1

Pretty sure that Internet Explorer doesn't support the embed tag. I would suggest using swfobject framework to load Flash content.