Swfs causing linked pages to disappear before opening

Steve Brook · 11 Jun 2011 at 09:37

Hi All
I have a website http://villaelmartinete.com which has some embedded swfs (please see "tour" pages)
When I move from one page to another that contains a swf the actual page disappears momentarily (flashes white) before the page being linked to opens up. This is quite ugly and all pages were set up using a template.
Is there any way to avoid this so that the pages move smoothly from one to another as with the none swf pages ?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
The swfs are embedded using swfobject 2
Thanks
S

3dcandy · 11 Jun 2011 at 10:09

easy peasy - well known bug in swfobject, change the background color in swfobject to black. doesn't always work but should help a bit.

Steve Brook · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:04

Hi 3dcandy
Its not the simple issue of a white flash where the swf is located (eg in the holder div) if you checked out the web site you'll see its the entire webpage that disappears momentarily. Any thoughts?
Thanks

3dcandy · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:53

yup, it's a bug in swfobject. the bigger the flash file the longer the flash. some browsers will make the effect worse. you could always try exporting with a black stage and wmode=transparent. if you use the flash code to embed the problem is much less obvious...

3dcandy · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:55

also some people actually put a keyframe on 1 and pause the animation until the swf has loaded...

3dcandy · 11 Jun 2011 at 11:56

also, in terms of seo and making your site work on them iDevices, try and avoid Flash. Jquery can achieve most of what you're trying to do, but then that's another story!