In Safari a Livescribe embed returns: Flash could not connect to the Livescribe server

Posted on by John McLear

I’m using embed code to embed a livescribe object onto a web page and I’m getting an error but only in Safari. Embed code works fine in IE/FF/Chrome
Code is:


<object height="316" width="224" align="middle" id="myFlashContent3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param value="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <object height="316" width="224" align="middle" data="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swfpath=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" /></a></object></object>

Tried updating adobe Flash. Update went fine but still Livescribe still returning:

Flash could not connect to the Livescribe server, or your upload may have failed. Please delete this file from your Livescribe Online account and re-upload it with Livescribe Desktop.

(Code 3)

Any ideas?

UPDATE: I managed to fix this by adding codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0″ to the object code so now the embed code looks like this

<object height="316" width="224" align="middle" id="myFlashContent3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0">
<param value="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" name="movie" />
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <object height="316" width="224" align="middle" data="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swfpath=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A8011600003A99724B00000129451710B5B2790EAA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param value="high" name="quality" />
<param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" /></a></object></object>

Transparent background with My Avatar Editor Object

Posted on by John McLear


If you are using the javascript swfobject method for the hosted My Avatar Editor object you can use this code to give your avatar a transparent background:

<script type="text/javascript">
        //<![CDATA[
        var avatarvalue = "<?= $avatarid ?>";
        var avatarURL = "myavatarcharacter.swf?avatar=" + avatarvalue;
        swfobject.embedSWF(avatarURL, "avatarSWFContainer", "160", "200", "10.0.0", null, {hosted:"true"},{wmode:"transparent"});
        function setFacialFeature(){
                var avatarSWF = document.getElementById('avatarSWFContainer');
                avatarSWF.draw();
        }
        //]]>
</script>

The only bit you need to change from the default code is the parameter which is the {wmode:”transparent”} bit

Creating your own Safe Search – A call to teachers!

Posted on by John McLear

Searchy Pants is a new exciting way for schools and parents to create their own safe search home page.

We focused on three main benefits:

  1. Include your family/schools branding/logo
  2. Include a message to your kids/pupils/teachers
  3. Include useful links

We kept the admin interface as simple as possible (Just 3 pages and a wizard style setup)

Please do sign up and test it, we are happy with it so far but we know that feedback over the next few months will get us to a point where we can do a formal launch to all schools.

We kept Searchy Pants as safe as possible with various bits I will talk about in the future, most of you will be aware of the Safe Search engine we have maintained for the last 4 years with great success.

SearchyPants is pronounced – Ser Chee Pants  – Like SmartyPants but that domain was gone 😛

Thanks to Matt Lovegrove for the testing so far.  If you think Searchy Pants is a good idea then please share it!

This Saturday in my City Centre (Bradford)

Posted on by John McLear

PASADENA, CA - OCTOBER 15: People ascend an e...
A racist group of people are protesting or doing something, police are guarding them.

The general word on the street is most normal people will be avoiding the city.

What happens when people avoid the city?  Retail sales go down.

Who owns the retail outlets in Bradford?  White people.

Perfect circle of fail 🙂 GG EDL.

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