Re: FLASH: strange question

[Jean-Pierre GOVEKAR]

Hi,


this problem of Flash and IE on Mac is really bad.


I don't remember if someone proposed a solution on this ML, and I do not have the solution.


But what you just wrote makes it theoretically possible.

I think it should work with a JavaScript testing the browser and the platform like what's following:


As I'm not wzard in JS, I just did copy and paste


but I don't know how to test the platform :-(


if someone has any idea or can create the JavaScript, I'll be very happy.


and if the solution already exists, just send me the script ;-)  PLLEEEAAAASE



It would go like that:

1 : if browser = Microsoft && platform == Windows	write: OBJECT

2 : if browser = Microsoft && platform == Windows	write: EMBED


<!--


function testIE()

{


if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0  && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 95")>=0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT")>=0)) && platform == Windows

	{

	document.write('<object ...>');

	document.write(' <param name="SRC" value="http://www.toto.com/toto.swf">');

	document.write('<param name="TYPE" value="application/x-shockwave-flash">');

	document.write('</object>');

	}


if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0  && (navigator && platform == Mac

	{

	document.write('<embed src="http://www.toto.com/toto.swf"');

	document.write('type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlasl">');

	document.write('</embed>');

	}

}


else  

{    

location="totonoflash.html";

} 


//-->


if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0  && (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 95")>=0 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows NT")>=0))



function testnav() {

var navig=0

//TEST Navigateur

if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != - 1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("3.01") == -1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("mac") == - 1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac") == - 1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Windows 3") == - 1 ) {


var navig=1


	document.write('<object width="350" height="100%" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="javascript:redirie()">'); 


	document.write(' <param name="SRC" value="http://www.elle.com/img/all/sster.swf">');


	document.write('<param name="TYPE" value="application/x-shockwave-flash">');


	document.write('</object>');


}




Jean-Pierre GOVEKAR

Production Manager/Developer

World Media Live - Paris

govekarworldmedia [dot] fr

>We're trying to build some very simple flash pages with a flash movie in a

>table cell of an ordinary HTML page.

>

>It works fine in Netscape and IE on a PC, and on a mac it works fine in

>Netscape.  But in IE on the mac (we've tried 4.01 and 4.5) the <OBJECT> tag

>gets read as a blank space above the movie and upsets the alignment.  So

>you get a hole in the table where the browser is trying to read the object

>tag.  If I take the Object tag out and only use the <EMBED> tag, it's fine.

>But then obviously it will have problems in IE on a PC.

>

>The whole thing is driving me crazy - particulary now that I've asked some

>friends to have a look, and they've said that on their macs, using IE,

>there *isn't* a space.  I've gone over the code a hundred times, thinning

>it down and cutting out white space, but it just doesn't work.  In one

>case, a friend on an identical macintosh (G3 350) and with the same file,

>did a screenshot to prove that on his machine there was no space.  But with

>my machine I can't fix the problem.

>

>I hope I've explained this correctly - if anybody has ANY hints about this

>at all, I would really really appreciate it.  i can show you the object and

>embed tags we're using if you like.

>

>Thanks in advance,

>

>Vlad





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