[Hidden-tech] Flash - Mozilla/Firefox display problem

[Bronwen Hodgkinson - cdeVision]

Yep I totally second that. Anyone using Flash these days should use
swfobject (or another javascript method) to avoid the IE issue. swfobject is
excellent & a snap to implement. It's better for accessibility and for flash
detection.

Bronwen
bronwen at cdevision.com

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Mark,

One more thing to consider is that IE has an issue with Flash now (lawsuit
for patent infringement... it was ugly).  You may notice that you now have
to click once before IE will start enabling clicks.

There is a way to solve both issues at once, and that is using JavaScript to
enable the Flash object.  You can find information on how to do that at
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

There are some more robust JavaScript libraries out there for this purpose
as well, but swfobject works nicely and has a nice description of how to use
it.

-Dan

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Mark,

I think your issue for Firefox is the width and height parameters in the 
embed tag:

<embed src="menu.swf" quality="high" devicefont="true" bgcolor="#000000"
width="100%" height="100%" name="menu" align="middle"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

If you change those to pixels instead of  %, things seem to work on 
Firefox.  I threw in "600px" for height and "900px" for width and your 
flash appeared full size.  So if you know the actual/desired dimensions 
of your flash presentation, just put those in instead of the %.  I'd 
recommend making the same change in the <object> tag as well.  That will 
actually make it appear consistently across all browsers.  With the 
current settings, it scales with the browser window.  So if my window is 
small, your text is illegible.

-Mike


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> Hi, I am new to hidden-tech and new to Flash. I recently published a 
> web site using (newly learned) Flash. It displayed fine on Safari and 
> Explorer, and I believe Netscape, but on Firefo not so good. The 
> parameters for publishing in Flash MX 7.0 for the HTML shell weren't 
> being recognized properly and it is displaying mocroscopic. Looking at 
> Forefox's  attributes for the HTML display it indicates a number of 
> unknowns.
>
> I read a few comments from forums on the web, but so far haven't 
> resolved the issue/ I do not know HTML. Any tips would be grateful.
> the site is www.knoxworx.com.
>
> Thanks, and it is good knowing such talent and expertise is not so 
> hidden in the area :)
>
> Mark
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