The .gif worked just fine for me but only on the first load…almost like it’s caching. It loaded, played once, and stopped (no loop).
I’m running a Powerbook G4 on Mac OSX 10.4.1 and Mozilla Firefox 3.6.28 (non-intel based).
However, I’m not sure if this will help but I recently placed a flash header into a site; perhaps it’s the same tactic?
In my header.php file I included this before the </head> tag:
<script src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Of course you must upload the .js file to a folder named SCRIPTS in your theme, Click Here for that file.
Next, still in my header.php but within the <body> tag where I want it displayed, I have:
<div id="header">
<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0','width','800', 'height','155','src','<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/button1','quality','high','pluginspage','https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/button1' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="800" height="155">
<param name="movie" value="/button1.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="/button1.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="155"></embed></object></noscript>
</div>
