27Jul/084
ExternalInterface.addCallback can cause IE JS Errors with certain keyworkds
After hide-and-go-seek-an-IE-javascript error, the solution proved to be delightfully easy, and completely inane (go figure IE). Apparently, you cannot adding an actionscript callback for a certain set of keywords ("play", "stop", ?) will break in IE and cause a javascript error.
The Flash 9 ExternalInterface page notes this in a comment at the bottom.
Turns out there is a whole bunch of 'special' words that break IE in different contexts, mostly DOM id's that will break IE. Eric Meyer has a better explanation with demos here.
Stay away from
- play
- stop
- tags
- tags
- item
- length
and, no doubt, many more.
Again, IE, you
Fail
