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Serves me right for posting at 5 AM. I wrote that the embed tag couldn’t force a MIME type, but of course, it can, just like the object tag.
Nevermind!

I did a very quick test, and it does appear that the way MySpace uses the <object> tag prevents Flash preloaders from appearing as expected in Internet Explorer (tested versions 6 and 7 for Windows). This is the issue that the Flash Satay article reports on. I will attempt to explain it below, as well, [...]

Mashable reports on MySpace’s new <embed> tag changes. It looked like MySpace was disabling all embed tags, but it seems that they were rolling out this big change. It’s explained better in Chris Bennet’s comment to that post, which I reproduce below (I hope he doesn’t mind):

14. Chris Bennett - January 18, 2007
Before:
MySpace required embed [...]

I ended up using a different approach to my panel, so I didn’t investigate the problem I was having in my previous post. I’m not running into the issue now, so perhaps it was just something weird with my code.
Here’s what my panel looks like at the moment. The interface is very rough and I’m [...]

Now I’m having trouble with persistent data (set with element.setPersistentData()) being consistently saved when the FLA file is saved. It seems to save correctly with some elements, and not others. It could well be a problem with my code–and for all I know it’s being saved, but it’s not being retrieved properly. I’ll have to [...]

I’ve started playing with JSFL, which is JavaScript for the FLash IDE. More specifically, I’m creating a custom panel that I hope will make hierarchical animation easier to do on the timeline (at least the way I do it).
Unfortunately, it doesn’t really seem possible to make a panel that updates itself when the selection in [...]