Flash and JavaScript's history.go command

[ptbernar]

I have a flash movie on my a JSP page of mine, the movie plays and functions just fine. However, on the same page I have a hyperlink that performs a javascript history.go command. The presense of the Flash movie on the page, seems to prevent the browser from executing the command.

Here is my javaScript method:

function cancelFormBack( form_pointer )
{
var count = form_pointer.numberSubmits.value;
count = 0 - count;
alert( window.history.length );
window.history.go( count );
}

here is the generated object and embed tags that I use for my movie:

<OBJECT classid=&quot;clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000&quot;
WIDTH=&quot;760&quot; HEIGHT=&quot;86&quot; id=&quot;GlobalNav&quot; ALIGN=&quot;&quot;>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=&quot;GlobalNav.swf&quot;>
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src=&quot;GlobalNav.swf&quot; quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=&quot;760&quot; HEIGHT=&quot;86&quot; NAME=&quot;GlobalNav&quot; ALIGN=&quot;&quot;
TYPE=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot;></EMBED>
</OBJECT>


here is the call on the html page:

<a href=&quot;javascript:cancelFormBack( document.myForm );&quot;>Go Back</a>


I can't image that this functionality is simply not available, but I have conducted a test using three basic html pages, and definitely with the movie, the history.go does not work, without the movie it does.

I'm using IE 6 for my browser, and it also is a problem with IE 5.5, however, there is no trouble with IE 5.0.

Thanks to anyone who has seen this before.