Chris, After our discussion last week on the Valid Flash state of play, I used Ian Hix's method: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1081798064&count=1 to place Flash files on our site http://www.alucida.com/software/sw_wsDemo_01.html (links to Flash files in pop-up windows at the bottom of the page). This doesn't use the deprecated <embed> which may be causing problems (?) for you.
That said, your problem sounds like the problems Drew McLellan's Flash Satay method http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/ has, as discussed at length on ALA and sumarised by Jeffrey Zeldman in Designing With Web Standards (p294). Apparently *sometimes* there's a bug with some browsers (including IE/Windows 5, 5.5 and 6 and Mozilla in Linux) not properly handling the <object> element and displaying only a white box. This put me off using Hix's method, but I tried it with as many browsers as I could lay my hands on--IE6/Win, Safari 1.0.3, IE5.2/Mac, Opera 7.5(Win and Mac), Firefox 0.9.3 (Win and Mac) and Camino 0.8 -- and it seems to work, but then, so does yours:) OK so that's probably not that helpful. I'll go away now. David McKinnon www.alucida.com PS: If anyone has any trobles seeing the flash at http://www.alucida.com/software/sw_wsDemo_01.html please let me know. PPS: I know there's a couple of clean-ups to do to get everything to display right in Mac browsers, I'll get to that in a minute. Just as soon as I finish this email... And one or two other things... ;) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wasabi Sent: Tuesday, 24 August 2004 2:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Flash in Windows Mozilla 1.6 Hi, Yes it does work in Win2K, I've tested a couple of WSG award winning sites, they have the same issue, I've tested using the <object> method and writing dynamically with JS, no luck. I'm not going to invalidate my pages with Macromedia's code however. C On Monday, August 23, 2004, at 08:28 AM, Patrick Lauke wrote: > Does it use features specific to Flash7, and Browser Cam only has 6? > (as I don't use Browser Cam I'm not sure if that last bit actually > applies, but thought I'd throw that in as a potential cause) > > Work for me anyway on Win2k/Moz1.6/Flash7 > > Patrick > ________________________________ > Patrick H. Lauke > Webmaster / University of Salford > http://www.salford.ac.uk > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Wasabi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 23 August 2004 15:37 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [WSG] Flash in Windows Mozilla 1.6 >> >> >> Hi, >> >> My site's FLASH document is not displaying in Windows XP Mozilla 1.6 >> as viewed at Browser Cam. Any suggestions why this is occuring. >> >> >> Respectfully, >> Chris >> >> http://ckimedia.com >> >> ****************************************************** >> The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ >> >> Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web >> standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in >> Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 >> >> See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> for some hints on posting to the list & getting help >> ****************************************************** >> >> > ****************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > > Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, > accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September > 30 and October 1, 2004 > > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ****************************************************** > > Respectfully, Chris http://ckimedia.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ Proud presenters of Web Essentials 04 http://we04.com/ Web standards, accessibility, inspiration, knowledge To be held in Sydney, September 30 and October 1, 2004 See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
