I used to have a bunch of flash banners that were given to me without the "click anywhere" buttons. Rather than needing to open each of them in Flash and create the button with a link, I just put them in a div with an onclick. I can say with 100% certainty that it worked on IE 5 and up and on Firefox as well as AOL. Also, although I never tested it on Netscape or Opera, I never heard anyone say that it didn't work for them.
The biggest advantage that handling it in this way offered me was to be able to serve up the banners dynamically with greater ease and control, not to mention the fact that it allowed me to compile more detailed reports about impressions, clicks... --Ferg John Dowdell wrote: >Ian Skinner wrote: > > >>Is it possible to make an enitre flash .swf move a link, or does the >>link have to be created inside the flash file? >> >> > >The OBJECT and EMBED tags don't offer an HREF for a link, so this can't >be done directly, sorry. > >I know of a few other approaches to this goal, however: >-- If you have the original Flash authoring file (.FLA) then you can >add the link this way. >-- If the SWF already has a "click anywhere" link in it, then >Dreamweaver can be used to change the target of this link. >-- If you know the playback browsers and if they all support the WMODE >overlay ability, then you can add a link by a transparent DIV atop the >plugin content. > >(Ken mentioned putting the SWF in a DIV and then assigning a link to the >latter, but I'm not sure how the various browsers do in directing events >in such a display... I'd expect such clicks to go to the SWF rather than >the DIV, but would defer to testing in each of the various browser >configurations popular among your audience.) > >Do any of the above bring you where you wish to go...? > >jd > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:211852 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
