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IE7 Choking on CF Flash Form

Posted by dougr | Posted in CF | Posted on 12-02-2008

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Today a trouble ticket came across my workstation which indicated that while Firefox was displaying a Flash form correctly, IE had ceased to display the form altogether. I have run into the exact issue previously when the scriptsrc path attribute of the cfform tag was incorrect and the form would not display. In this case, however, this form has been working for a year without issue.
I ran the Firefox html validator and found where the issues were and then took a look at the source in both Firefox and IE and the object embed was mangled in IE but not Firefox. What in the world changed??
A couple of weeks ago we updated our CF server to ColdFusion 8, it just had to be the cause.
I replaced the CF7 scripts directory with the CF8 scripts directory and problem solved.