Re: MIME again and again and again

[stumpy]

Windows doesn't automatically set up file associations. Windows has to be

told what extension are associated with what programs!  This is done when

you install a program.  The wonderful Registry! If you take a Flash file

FLA and open on a windows computer that doesn't have Flash, windows won't

know what to do with it.


You have to tell the server, so the server can tell the browser. It's the

same with Real Audio and other plug-in applications.



At  7/9/98 08:45 AM, you wrote:

>Why isn't the web browser smart enough to know that if it has an swf

>extension, it is obviously a shockwave flash file?  Windows does this, how

>hard can it be???

>

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From: John Croteau <croteauerols [dot] com>

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To: flashershocker [dot] com <flashershocker [dot] com>

>Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 10:39 AM

>Subject: MIME again and again and again

>

>

>>Hi all,

>>

>>   Three out of three sites posted recently for checking on this List

>>did not have the MIME set on their servers. Not one of them had a

>>warning that the MIME was not set and that this might cause browsers to

>>crash. I have updated the information at the Flash Tech Resource so that

>>there is a better explanation of why MIME is required to be set for

>>Flash on the server and what some of the possible symptoms are when it

>>is not set. It can be found under Server Setup - "Server MIME is

>>Required". There is also a special download for testing MIME,

>>step-by-step instructions for some server software and links to all the

>>MM notes on the subject. http://www.FlashCentral.com/tech/

>>

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