Re: FLASH: Learning Flash on the Mac

[K]

hi.  IMHO if you plan to become a flash developer then you are going to

have to learn to hate IE for mac. The single largest problem with IE/mac

and flash is that microsoft has provided absolutely *no* mechanism

whatsoever for flash movies to communicate with the browser.  That means

that you cannot view movies which use fscommands and javascript in IE/mac.

Microsoft has shown no intention of fixing this either. FScommands

basically allow you to write your own scripts which can then be used with

your flash movie.   A lot of advanced  effects require this functionality

to work, and as a result they will not work in IE/mac. In addition to this

huge problem, IE/mac also provides no way determining whether or not a user

has the flash plug-in installed, which is another nuisance.


Personally I don't think anyone with a mac should use IE, even if only as a

pressure tactic to encourage microsoft to make the browser work properly on

this platform.  Oh sure, they've given us the nifty print previews, but

what does it matter if we can print a page with nice little margins if the

page won't work the way they're supposed to anyway? <sigh>


I've currently got three versions of Netscape on my computer (3,4,4.5) and

the last time any of them have crashed was months ago.  What version system

software are you using?  Netscape shouldn't be crashing for you, and I

think your best course of action here is really just to get NN to work

properly.  Update to the latest version of the browser and try making a

minimal set of extensions to make sure that the crashing isn't caused by an

extension conflict.  You should also check out the known bugs and

incompatibilites for the browser version you're trying to run.  You should

be able to use NN without it crashing.  If java causes problems for you,

you can just go into your preferences and disable it.  I end up doing that

a lot of the time just because those little java marquees annoy the heck

outta me.  I keep my computer running almost 24 hours a day, with netscape

open at least half of that time and yet I can count the number of times the

computer has crashed since the beginning of the year on my fingers.



Good luck,


Karen


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