Re: FLASH: Mac IE 5.0 + Flash frameset bug

[Matt Wobensmith]

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


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead




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>Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 15:38:09 -0400

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From: Randy Kato <rkatobraincraft [dot] com>

>Subject: FLASH: Mac IE 5.0 + Flash frameset bug

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>With all the talk about sites made with flash & HTML in framesets

>lately, we wanted to let everybody know of a bug we discovered with Mac

>IE 5.0.

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>If you have a frameset with certain frames set to show no scrollbars,

>and you hit the browser's Refresh button, those frames will reload with

>scrollbars (provided the browser window is not large enough to encompass

>everything). BUT, this only seems to happen with frames that contain

>Flash movies, not with frames containing plain HTML pages.

>

>If anybody gains any further info on this bug, please let us all know.

>

>Thanks!

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