Re: FLASH: Netscape & Flash Problems!

[John Dowdell]

At 9:52 AM 12/4/0, Kevin P Kelly wrote:

> I've been informed to get the server's MIME changed, however,

> that cannot occur.  My site host won't do it. And I see other

> sites that work fine with the MIME still set at TEXT/HTML.


It may work fine sometimes, but such a site may crash browsers too. That's

because if the server is sending mystery data the browser has to guess how

to render it, and it may guess wrong.


(More info's in the "What is MIME?" article, searchable in the Macromedia

Flash Technotes with keyword "mime".)


If your site host won't add this very common filetype, and if you prefer

not to switch to a more normal site host, then you can add a TYPE attribute

to your EMBED tag, with value of "application/x-shockwave-flash"... I don't

know whether this is a documented or recommended technique by Netscape for

their browsers, but it often seems to work.


jd






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