At my company, we use Omniture SiteCatalyst for our web analytics/tracking. Unfortunately, Omniture does not give user’s Flash Version statistics in their standard reports like Google Analytics does. On the other hand, Omniture gives you the freedom to create custom reports that you can determine on your own using their provided JavaScript code. I am already using SWFObject to load the flash piece on our homepage to users with a...

NOTE: This script is no longer supported in Flash Player 10. (It was fun while it lasted!) Let’s face it, there is such a thing as sensitive material on the web. I was recently put to the task of protecting a certain page on our company’s intranet from being redistributed outside the company. In other words, we have a page on the intranet that is so sensitive, upper managment doesn’t want our employees to be capable of...

I’ve been using an image pre-loader that I wrote myself for several years now, whenever I need to load an external jpeg into my movie. I’ve also been in the habbit of re-naming my .jpg images to .jjj in order to trick AOL’s image compression “feature.” What I never expected is that AOL would also find a way to break my pre-loader! As far as I can tell, AOL is somehow and for some reason tacking on an extra...

PROBLEM  Today I ran into a rather perplexing bug in Flash when I tried to create/write to a shared object. I needed to create an array named after an ID and then store 3 values into that array. The idea is that each ID would have its own array with its own 3 values. Since the name of the array would depend on which ID we were dealing with, I resorted to using the set variable command in order to use a variable as the name of the array...

An even better improvement to the Flash Satay and Flash Javay methods I’ve been looking at the Flash Satay method of maintaining valid markup using flash (the <embed> tag commonly used for non-IE browsers is no longer supported by current versions of HTML and XHTML). It always seemed a little wacky and time consuming to have to load your flash content into a container .swf and was not appealing to me at all. The Flash Javay...