Re: FLASH: flash disappears sometimes (netscape)

[Helen Triolo]

Ouch.  Thanks for letting me know about all this, Michael.  Guess it's

pretty obvious there's no Mac in this house -- had no idea it'd look so

bad on one.  And I thought I already had too much on my plate this

weekend... I appreciate knowing all this though.  


Thanks,

Helen

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Michael Penney wrote:

> 

> Wow, thats one messed up site. I saw no Flash at all on MSIE4.5/Mac though I

> did see some javascript code lying around : "document.write(' ');

> document.write(' '); } else if (!(navigator.appName &&

> navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")>=0 &&

> navigator.appVersion.indexOf("2.")>=0)){ document.write('" for example.

> 

> It also opened up way too wide for my 17" at 832x624, I couldn't scroll over

> and had to move the browser partly off-screen to see the right side of the

> page.

> 

> Tried it in Netscape 4.6 (mac) stil no flash that I could see, also no

> javascript code that I could see on the page, there was an animated gif at

> the lower right (after I moved the browser window over so I could see it,

> are they authoring on a 21" or what?) advising me to 'click here', but it

> didn't do anything when I did. When I looked in Netscape's page Info, I

> could see that there was an swf on the page, and there I could click it,

> etc. but it appears that for some reason the animated gif is taking its

> place?

> 

> In NS 4.08 on my Win98 box, the page size was ok (that box has a 17" set to

> 1024x768) and the flash showed up fine. Not sure what problem is on NT (my

> NT boxes are at my other job), but I'd say the page needs serious re-design

> if PMAS cares about cross platform and notebook support.

> 

> > On a site where I have a flash announcement inside a table cell

> > (http://www.pmas.com), the flash part sometimes doesn't show up in

> > Netscape (Windows NT).  Usually it displays fine, but every now and

> > then, it just isn't there when I go to the page.  There's no error

> > message and no blank image -- everything on the page is just shifted

> > over and there's no flash, as if that table cell wasn't even there.  I

> > saw this happening before but thought it would go away when I inserted

> > the code that I got from publishing with the ad 34 banner.  But it

> > happened again today (and of course, it had to be as I was showing a


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