June 12th 2009 | Jens C Brynildsen

SWFObject 2.2

Today, the SWFObject library got a major update that will probably be what ships with the final version of Flash Builder as well. The new release has several nice features, fixes known bugs and also takes some steps to clean things up code-wise:

If you've downloaded the Flash Builder Beta, you may have noticed a small but important change. It no longer comes with the Adobe detection scripts, but rather the popular SwfObject javascript library for detecting if the Flash Player is installed. This really cements this script as the industry standard even though it's been that among skilled Flash users for quite some time.

Here's the highlights of the new release:

1. Improved DomContentLoaded emulation for Internet Explorer
2. Dynamic library support
3. Callback method for embedding Flash content
4. No more embed tags
5. Improved Flash Player version detection for non-Internet Explorer browsers
6. Improved Adobe Express Install
7. Improved createCSS method
8. Detected user agent properties are now public via the swfobject.ua object
9. No more conditional compilation directives
10. The option to switch off SWFObject's default show/hide behavior

In addition, several bugs have been fixed so now is a good time to update the sites you maintain.