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Mac doesn't like my Flash file

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Actually, I was probably wrong with my first post as I didn't look at the code you were using to laod the movie. You're loading the flash movie by specifying the URL of the frame source as src="Art_Scrolling.swf". Don't do that! Most web servers won't know how to handle that kind of file and it'll be sent to the browser as an unknown file, which usually results in the browser prompting the user to download it. Some browsers will try and read the file headers to sniff out what they should do with the file (Like IE and Safari), or if the webserver knows the file type then it'll send the appropiate HTTP headers to tell the browser what it is, but you should [b]never[/b] rely on that when dealing with stuff like this. Actualy, I'm pertty sure IE would do the same thing if I didn't have Flash MX (not the flash player, the authoring environment) installed because AFAIK the flash player (browser plugin) doesn't setup any flash mime types for the Windows OS, but the full flash package does. So anyone without the full flash authoring environment installed will probably have the same problem. You should make an HTML page for the flash file and load the flash through the HTML page using an <object> element. Read through the flash manual or the help files on how to correctly publish flash movies on the web. It's amazing what you can learn when you read the manual. ;). Loading...
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