Pixelbox

My first flex app has been having some IE support issues. Mainly errors with making SOAP calls, but it was unclear if they were related to something else not loading. Which made the RIA not work, on IE but on everything else. My first port of call was the Object tag, as IE is the only browser that uses it as opposed to the Embed used by other browsers.  We are using swfobject for doing this so I found it strange and also found it even harder to debug as in IE you are unable to view the generated source of a page (even after finding an IE developer toolbar). I did managed to lock the problem down finally though, and it turned out that it was the id tag. Not having an id tag killed the application in some way and it loaded but nothing really worked. This lead me to notice that the id we were using for our RIA had a space in it, causing the same problem. Replacing the id without the spaces fixed the problem and it now all works fine, so if anyone else has a problem like this check your id for spaces, or check you have an id at all!