Hi Thomas,
@ 3:33:00 AM on 4/19/2001, Thomas wrote:
...
> I see. No, I don't want Flash. But the occasional automatic download
> prompt is appreciated.
OK, this is getting seriously off-topic <g>, which is mostly my fault.
Flash is pretty cool for certain things, but, no, I don't like to see
a page *full* of Flash. Games, trailers, interfaces for non-web-only
software - it has it's uses and it's kinda cool for those things
because it's not a huge bandwidth hog.
> The query didn't tell me that is was trying to download Flash. When
> I open a page using an encoding I don't have, the pop-up query will
> tell me: "I want to download and install Korean language support. Do
> you want me to proceed?" or something along the lines. Is that
> because of different HTML code (thus it could be fixed on Marck's
> site), or is it an MS/IE problem that the pop-up query only mentions
> ActiveX and nothing about trying to download Flash?
Well IE uses ActiveX to grab plugins if it knows where it can get it
(otherwise it shows the little ActiveX logo and a "broken image" sort
of deal). It's been so long since I've messed with that stuff (IE4 was
brand new) that I have no clue what it may or may not tell the user
now. The font thing is real new (I think?) so IE probably has a
different way of handling that stuff.
Marck can actually fix the small Flash animation on his site by just
using an alternate GIF animation or inline image if the browser can't
display the embedded object. But that's just in the case of Flash, I'm
not sure about others.
If you clicked yes for the "Do you want to allow software such as
Active-X controls and plug-ins to run?" you probably would have seen a
short pause (maybe 60 seconds download) then a pop up certificate type
thing asking if you want to always trust applications distributed by
"Macromedia" etc etc. Then you can more than likely decline and it
won't install (It'll hang out in %temp% or the cache maybe?). But
that's only for the plugin; you'd only have to do that once.
The only benefit, in some cases, is that a GIF animation that size
would be absolutely humongous. The Flash animation is really quite
small (very fast over my 21,6 home dialup).
But, yes, I do understand and respect the fact that some people don't
like those types of eye-candy enabled in their browser. 80% of the
time I browse with images toggled off because of my connection.
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Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Web Architect, Designer, and Programmer
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