PROBLEM READING FLASH MOVIE ON MACINTOSH

[jp]

Hi,

My movie clip is ok in Internet explorer (PC)
But some picture are grey or invisible when i look from a macintosh

Tks to help me
[email]jprudel@yahoo.fr[/email]
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Jean-Pascal

[Brandon Bradley]

jp wrote:

> My movie clip is ok in Internet explorer (PC)
> But some picture are grey or invisible when i look from a macintosh

Does your html that the swf is embeded in contain both the object and
embed tags? The object tag is used by IE on PC (activeX), but the embed
is used on mac and on netscape/firefox browsers on PC. (IE on PC is the
only one that actually uses the activeX plugin)
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Brandon Bradley
Macromedia Certified Instructor
[url]http://www.attconline.org/[/url]

[Johnny Walker]

Y dijo Brandon Bradley, el 03/03/2005 18:53:<br>

> Does your html that the swf is embeded in contain both the object and
> embed tags? The object tag is used by IE on PC (activeX), but the embed
> is used on mac and on netscape/firefox browsers on PC. (IE on PC is the
> only one that actually uses the activeX plugin)

¿Would IE show the Flash movie if i only use the embed tag? I mean, IE
understands the object tag, but ¿Can it understand the embed tag if no
object tag is present?

JW

[Jeckyl]

>> Does your html that the swf is embeded in contain both the object and

>> embed tags? The object tag is used by IE on PC (activeX), but the embed
>> is used on mac and on netscape/firefox browsers on PC. (IE on PC is the
>> only one that actually uses the activeX plugin)

>
> ¿Would IE show the Flash movie if i only use the embed tag? I mean, IE
> understands the object tag, but ¿Can it understand the embed tag if no
> object tag is present?

Why not simply have both as every other web site does that wants to be
viewable by the most browsers. Easy fix.
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All the best,
Jeckyl

[Brandon Bradley]

Jeckyl wrote:

>>>Does your html that the swf is embeded in contain both the object and
>>>embed tags? The object tag is used by IE on PC (activeX), but the embed
>>>is used on mac and on netscape/firefox browsers on PC. (IE on PC is the
>>>only one that actually uses the activeX plugin)

>>
>>¿Would IE show the Flash movie if i only use the embed tag? I mean, IE
>>understands the object tag, but ¿Can it understand the embed tag if no
>>object tag is present?

>
>
> Why not simply have both as every other web site does that wants to be
> viewable by the most browsers. Easy fix.

Agreed. The best and recomended solution is to wrap the embed tag inside
a object tag just like Flash does by default when you use it's published
html.

As to whether IE would use the embed tag: Only IE on Mac. IE on PC
requires the use of ActiveX object tags. I do not recall what version
that started at, but it was near IE 4.

--
Brandon Bradley
Macromedia Certified Instructor
[url]http://www.attconline.org/[/url]

[SpaceGirl]

Brandon Bradley wrote:

> Jeckyl wrote:
>

>>>> Does your html that the swf is embeded in contain both the object
>>>> and embed tags? The object tag is used by IE on PC (activeX), but
>>>> the embed is used on mac and on netscape/firefox browsers on PC. (IE
>>>> on PC is the only one that actually uses the activeX plugin)
>>>
>>>
>>> ¿Would IE show the Flash movie if i only use the embed tag? I mean,
>>> IE understands the object tag, but ¿Can it understand the embed tag
>>> if no object tag is present?

>>
>>
>>
>> Why not simply have both as every other web site does that wants to be
>> viewable by the most browsers. Easy fix.

>
>
> Agreed. The best and recomended solution is to wrap the embed tag inside
> a object tag just like Flash does by default when you use it's published
> html.
>
> As to whether IE would use the embed tag: Only IE on Mac. IE on PC
> requires the use of ActiveX object tags. I do not recall what version
> that started at, but it was near IE 4.
>

And screw validation. Who needs that anyway. yes?

[Brandon Bradley]

SpaceGirl wrote:

> And screw validation. Who needs that anyway. yes?

No. Validation is a good thing to consider, but you have to make
informed decisions about the possible problems that the validation gives
back. This is especially true when the validation throws a warning. In
this case the object tag contains the embed, which is a known tactic
that causes any browser that recognizes the object tag to ignore the
embed. It is designed that way for a reason.

On the same hand ther ar ethings that you can use like table columns
that will validate just fine because they are in the spec, but that are
not supported by any browser to date. Just because it validates doesn't
make it a good idea to use them though.

End rule is make informed decisions. That is why you are the web developer.

--
Brandon Bradley
Macromedia Certified Instructor
[url]http://www.attconline.org/[/url]