Re: FLASH: New Site & make sure your MIME is set

[John Croteau]

Hi Gav,


>Announce a new flash site, Deep Blue

>See it at  http://www.btinternet.com/~gavin.holland/deepblue/

Or not, sorry to have to tell you that the MIME is not set for Flash on

your Server.

For help see: http://www.FlashCentral.com/Tech/Index.htm#Server


Not picking on anyone in particular but all new Flashers or anyone

putting up a new site should make sure the MIME is set before going

live. This is very important because it can cause you a lot of lost

visitors and create bad will. Though not common one of the symptoms when

the MIME is not set is for the browser to crash. Just because it works

for you does not mean it is OK. You MUST do a specific MIME test. In the

link above there are links for testing MIME and 'Server MIME Setup

Required' explains the possible symptoms of the MIME not being set for

Flash on the server.


As far as myself and others on this list if we go to a site and don't

see the pix or the browser crashes we may not have time (or the desire)

to go back to your site with another browser (ie usually MSIE Win

95/98/NT because it doesn't normally use the MIME setting on the

server). So if you warn us the MIME is not set we won't waste time

waiting for a download we will never see and will not go there when a

browser crash will be a problem, this will leave us time to visit your

site at a convient time.


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