FLASH: I.E. taking over Get URL

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

An out-of-town client recently visited and we looked at the Flash site I 

built him (http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd). I was playing the .swf 

locally on an offline machine (Win98), and we weren't using the browser at 

all. When the .swf reached a place where it Gets  URL into another HTML 

frame (to play midi in a hidden frame), we were surprised to see that I.E. 

opened up automatically. This would not be so strange if I.E. were my 

default browser, but on that machine I had set Netscape as the default 

browser (I even checked my file type associations and tested it again by 

clicking on an html file).


None of this is a shock (I'm used to Bill Gates's "conquer the world" 

strategy) but I still wonder why I.E. opened at all. In the past, when I've 

tested .swf's locally/offline, Get URL's had no effect if the Flash was 

being played outside of the browser. Possibly the Get URL's in those 

instances were not referencing a frame but, rather, a new page.


Anyone have a clue into this? Anyone know how to disable I.E. from taking 

over Get URL's when Netscape is already the default browser?


thanks.


Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash job is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

See our Flash portfolio at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/portfolio>

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