Re: FLASH: Explorer 4.5 mac (attn: jd)

[John Dowdell]

At 6:06 PM 7/29/99, Colin Moock wrote:

> in all the tests i've done, mac ie 4.5 has added an unexplainable

> and unpreventable gap above flash movies....

> http://www.moock.org/gwen/


I don't have that browser on this Mac myself, but one of my partners does.

I went to your site and, once I went around that JavaScript problems that

browser has with plugin detection, saw that there was a border around the

content.


This border was particularly pronounced on the left side, where that

browser inserts little tabs for going to other places.


I tried to crosscheck to some full-page photographs to see how it handled

that task, but then IE4.5/Mac crashed with a bus error, so I came back to

my own cube to type.


If IE4.5/Mac adds a border than IE4/Mac did not have, and if this is of

signficant interest to you, then you might wish to see which behavior the

upcoming IE5/Mac, now in beta, follows. Submitting a report to Microsoft

about changed functionality would be the most direct route forward,

particularly as they're working on a near-term release.


You might also wish to drop a note to wish-flash, saying "Look at

http://www.moock.org/gwen/ in IE4/Mac and IE4.5/Mac... any way you can

change the latter's new borders from within the plugin?". The Flash team

recently finished a development cycle, though... the MS path seems more

direct.


(It may also be useful to scan the regular web-discussion resources about

handling IE4.5/Mac differences... I haven't tracked this myself, but I do

know that people have found differences there with various types of

content. This may just be a special-case of a more general situation in

that browser.)


jd





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