Re: FLASH: flash: to mime or not to mime

[John Croteau]

Hi Dave,


> I remember I used to skirt MIME probems with MIDI in Netscape by including

> a TYPE=audio/midi parameter in the embed statement.  Can this be used by

> Flash developers to reduce dependence on MIME being set on servers?

In a word NO. Unless you don't care about visitors to your site (or they

all have MSIE 3/4 Win 95/98/NT) then you must be on a server where the

MIME is set for Flash.


If the MIME is not set on the server and

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" is not in the EMBED then no Flash

content is supplied and you normally get the no-plugin icon usually the

Puzzle piece. in other words no one gets Flash.


If the MIME is not set on the server and

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" is in the EMBED then content is

served using the default file type as set on the server. Results are

unpredictable and there are several symptoms including proper Flash

playback, no Flash display, crashing browsers and among others. See:

http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Server/index.htm


Common defaults file types for servers are application/octet-steam,

text/html and text/plain. 


Note, Midi usually plays Ok when TYPE=audio/midi is used and the default

file server format is application/octet-steam but often fails if it is

some version of text is the default server format.


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