Re: FLASH: Mac IE 5.0 + Flash frameset bug

[Randy Kato]

Hi Matt,


That's exactly what we've found (though we didn't try with a QT movie).


The thing is that if you specify no scrollbars in your frameset, it shouldn't matter if the contents of the frame are larger than the size you specify for that frame. Mac IE 5 does 'obey' your commands when initially loading the page, but on Refresh it seems to

ignore them -- IF the frame contains embedded media. This is why we refer to it as a bug rather than just a run of the mill browser/platform incompatibility.


Is this in line with what you're thinking? We haven't reported anything to MS yet since we wanted to put it out there to see what others have found.


-Randy



Matt Wobensmith wrote:


> Hi Randy -

>

> You wrote up an issue with Mac IE 5 and framesets that include a Flash movie and no scrollbars.

>

> Myself and Erika, here in Tech Support, tested this and found:

>

> -We can reproduce this only when the Flash movie is displayed at a dimension larger than the frame in the

> frameset.

>

> -When the Flash movie is smaller than the frame, no scrollbars appear after refreshing.

>

> -We can also reproduce this with a QuickTime movie (not made in Flash) when the QuickTime movie is larger than the frame in the frameset.

>

> -The behavior with a GIF is not the same. Refreshing with a larger GIF displays no scrollbars.

>

> Seems that with all other browsers, refreshing a page w/o scrollbars with embedded media will still retain the "no scrollbars". Mac IE 5 will give you scrollbars on refresh, implying that the media is larger than the allotted space in the frame. This makes sense.

>

> What this tells me is that other browsers are more forgiving, but Mac IE 5 is not, and won't let us get away with using embedded media larger than the frame and retain the lack of scrollbars.

>

> Let us know if this is consistent with what you've found.

>

> Matt

>

> ---------------

> Matt Wobensmith

> Macromedia Tech Support

> Flash Team Lead


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