Re: FLASH: gap in ie4.5 on mac

[John Dowdell]

At 7:52 AM 8/10/99, Colin Moock quote'n'wrote:

> > I saw a post from another developer who said that IE4.5/Mac

> > acts like IE4/Mac if it does not include the OBJECT tag.

> > I'm curious whether you see the same there...?

>

> i just tested this. it works completely. if you do not include

> the object tag, the gap disappears.


Cool, thanks bunches for the confirmation.



> i need to know what the ramifications of *not* using the object

> tag are?


It would be bad. IE/Win32 uses ActiveX Controls much more frequently than

it uses Netscape plugins. Most people using IE/Win32 browsers have the

Flash ActiveX Control. If a page does not have an OBJECT tag then to my

knowledge those browsers will not intuit that they should use a particular

ActiveX Control to render that EMBED content.


Rephrased, I'd definitely expect that accommodating the IE4.5/Mac audience

by removing the OBJECT tag would inconvenience the IE/Win32 audience, which

has a *significant* installed base on most sites.


My kneejerk on how to handle it would be to leave it alone... to use the

standard OBJECT/EMBED tag structure. People who happen to use IE4.5/Mac

might see extra space in that browser, but you wouldn't risk the majority

not seeing anything at all.


You might consider doing a JavaScript detect for IE4.5/Mac, and adding a

document.write advising them that other browsers are more fun. Another path

would be to document.write the entire tag, as we had to do when IE4/Mac

started objecting to Microsoft's VBScript a year or so ago.


I'm still curious whether the beta IE5/Mac acts more like IE4/Mac than

IE4.5/Mac... I don't think I'll be able to download a beta this week, but

is anyone else in the public beta on IE5/Mac...?


tx,

jd







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