Re: FLASH: Flash 4 with Image... Links to upgrades? Detection/IE4.5

[Michael@BTW]

> Here's my problem:  Because the .swf 's  are going to reside on a high

> capacity server, they will be linked as an absolute link embedded in the

> Flash .html page.

> 

> As was recently pointed out {thanks!}   Mac IE 4.x has a bug in that the

> ..swf  GET URL will look for the URL relative to the .swf rather than

> relative to the html page in which it is embedded.


Did you mis-type above? Absolute links work fine with load movie in MSIE

4.x, relative links work wierd, so if you are linking via absolute links,

seems like it should be fine...


> 

> To fix this issue, I am forced to make Mac users upgrade to IE 5 or use

> Netscape.  


If the get URL is an absolute link w/in a f4 action script loaded movie it

will also work, for instance: http://www.bigtimeweb.com works fine with MSIE

4.5 w/flash 4, but not w/flash 3. (In the above, load movie "name" &

random(x) & ".swf" loads a second movie with get url

"http://www.bigtimeweb.com" in the last frame.)


(its not a mini-flash, but the same idea applies:).


> I've used the silent detection schemes before of a mini- flash with a

> flash 4 only action script. But that won't work if the client has Mac IE

> 4.5. They'll get through and get lost.

> 

> Thanks

> 

> Jeff

> 

> Jefferis Peterson, Pres.

> Web Design and Marketing

> http://www.PetersonSales.net

> Tel & Fax. 724-458-7169

> 



=====>

Michael Penney

Sharpener of the Cutting Edge

BigTimeWeb.Com




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