Re: FLASH: Get URL javascript:

[Beau Bisquette]

At 1/11/00 03:16 PM -0500, you wrote:

>This works in IE 4.0+:

>

>On (Release)

>        Get URL ("javascript:window.document.movie.TGoToLabel("_level0",

>"the_label_goes_here")")

>End On

>

>But not in Netscape 4 (any version). All the EMBEDS and Object IDs are

>named properly.

>

>

>On Macromedia's site it states the following:

>

>LiveConnect Specific

>Netscape plug-ins support using URLs of the form "javascript:" in the

>GetURL action in your .swf this can be used instead of FSCommand if you

>only want to support Netscape Navigator browsers.


One thing to remember about javascript URLs: the browser expects that the 

javascript will generate a page, not simply 'do something', so if the 

function doesn't return displayable content, you'll not get what you expect.


What I wonder is: how come it works in IE?

Beau Bisquette

TPC Productions

Oakland, California



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