My dog ate it sir!
Posted by Trevor_Raggatt on 31 January 2008 - 11:23pm.
I'd love to do my homework from this week's podcast. However, on the posts where tunes have been posted all I get is an empty white box which does nothing when clicked. Is there some ActiveX plug-in that should be downloaded or a media player that needs to be running in the background or something? Sigh...
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That
happens to me too....
And ...
...me, sir. Dowloading the Adobe Flash thing didn't help either.
Browsers
Have you tried using different browsers? Like if you use Internet Explorer, try Firefox, that kind of thing. This way at least you'll know whether it's a problem specific to the browser you use, or something more general.
same here...
for me it works on the podcast tab, but not on the blog or home pages. I can see divshare players in other sites ok and if I fire up Firefox everything works OK.
I can't figure out what's happening but I think it's your end...It stopped working around Christmas time when I think divshare released a new version of their widget.
I've also tried clearing the cache and messing with active x settings with no luck.
Hmmm
It shouldn't be as complicated as this. All we're doing is embedding bog-standard flash files within the pages. If YouTube videos work, so should DivShare links - both are pulled in using exactly the same technique. And if they work on one part of the site, you'd expect them to work on another.
Still, I'll do some research and see if I can track down what's going on.
You're right, you know...
Works on Podcast page, doesn't work on Blog page... odd.
Narrowing it down
Does the divshare player work on this page?
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/blog?page=1 ('Unplugged' entry)
Then on this page:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/unplugged-really-unplugged
(same file, on its own page)
Both
are no good for me
I must be in a really good mood today
because I fired up IE7 to check these out for you Mr Lewry.
Using IE7 they are both buggered. All the little bookmark widgets are there, but the Divshare bit is just an empty box.
If I open them with IETab inside Firefox, they are also knackered, which I suppose is as it should be.
They both work fine natively in Firefox anyway, so I'm all right Jack, er, Fraser.
And what about this one?
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/podcast
Thanks for this.
Vairrry interestink....
Opening that one in IE7 prompted a Flash install, following which it worked perfectly, both in IE7 itself and in an IETab, er, tab.
It also works fine in a native Firefox tab of course.
Hope this helps.
scritch, scritch, scritch....
(Sound of Fraser scratching chin and pondering)
Quite.
Obviously no-one should ever use Internet Explorer, ever, but they insist on doing so, so I have to pay attention.
I did spot the extra bit in the html
In the object classid definitions, there's an extra clsid: bit in the string.
Any relevance?
I wondered about that myself
But in the blog there are examples using two classid references and others that have just the one, and they're both broken (I've got an old laptop here and can replicate the issue).
This conversation must be terribly dull for everyone else.
No no no
I want it to work! I'm following this one avidly. BTW, as an idea for the future, a "My favourite threads" would be good so we can keep track of old debates? I s'pose I could favourite them in IE but on the page would be better!
Click on ...
... 'My Account' and then 'Track'
Yes
But there are probably nicer ways of doing it - it's something I've been thinking about.
Mojo4music
Isn't there something like that on the Mojo site? Or there was before it disappeared under a huge pile of adverts!
Yes I use that - it's great
But it only works where you've posted - I sometimes follow threads I don't actually post to.
On my return to Foxfield Junction
I am amazed to discover that both of the previously errant links now perform normally.
The only difference (OS the same, patching level the same, browser the same etc etc) is that earlier on I was using a 3G connection, while here at the mansion we have an ADSL line.
As the saying goes, go figure.
This one works...
...previous 2 don't
That one works
But on other pages it doesn't. BTW Fraser - on different PC to our exchange the other day - but on work PC id doesn't work on (e.g.) the page about "Bitter Sweet Symphony" plagerism but does on the link above.
Having got home
On home PC that one works but none of the others do - just like work PC. How weird!
Back home and on IE7
Previous two really acoustics... nope and nope...
The podcast, yep...
Nope - neither
Sorry - neither works!
For Mr Raggat
Bugger, no sooner do I use the Dog ate it as my "witty" by line in the randomiser, than I see you've used it already. And yesterday.......
Sorry 'bout that! Hadn't spotted the blatant plaragism...
...of your randomiser title because it was, in fact, the use of it on the podcast HORA which made me blatantly plagarise it from Mr Hepworth! Nothing new under the sun, eh?
IE, Firefox and Opera here
And everything works fine on all three.
The only occasional problem I have is getting "sorry, this video is no longer available" from embedded vid links, but I think that's a restriction on certain YouTube files rather than any weirdness at my or this site's end.
Which version of IE
are you using Archie?
IE 7.0
I only use it rarely (I'm an operatic kinda guy) but everything works as it should. Maybe when I installed it I unwittingly set it up to update Flash automatically or something.
Sounds like that's the case
See above - once I'd got a prompt to install Flash in IE, the DivShare things worked. Weird thing is the earlier links weren't triggereing the install prompt.
I'm a Firefox devotee myself, having dumped Opera when they started carrying ads for a while, and got hooked on the little Foxy devil. I dumped IE a long, long time ago!
I can't do without my tabs.
None of the three tests above work on IE 6.0 for me
...IE 7.0 will need to wait for later when I get home.
The main PodPage is fine tho.
Firefox fixed it
I just downloaded Firefox, it installed with no hassle whatsoever, it copied over all the favourites etc automatically, and now the little white boxes are properly populated so I can waste a few hours listening to stuff on this site rather than getting on with more useful activities!
Thanks Vulpes and Fraser for suggesting it.
It certainly did...
...Stanley.
Firefox fixed it for me.
Thanks from me too.
Camino Royale
not that anyone will be that interested but Camino on a Mac works