Another post for web-developers reading this blog. If you think these posts do not belong here, please leave a comment, and I'll consider moving my development articles to a separate blog.

If your page has one or more Flash-objects on it, you may face this strange IE behaviour: the page loads completely, but there's still a message "X items remaining" in the browser's status bar, with the "in progress" status shown.

The solution is simple - remove the "classid" attribute from your object, remove the "id" attribute, remove the "bgcolor" and the "quality" parameters... Actually, remove all the unnecessary info, keeping your flash-code as simple as possible:

<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf">
<embed src="somefilename.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>