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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	<rant> IE7 is already causing me endless grief. If you make a getURL() call from flash in IE7 and specify a target paramater like so getURL("www.google.com","_blank"); it ignores the target and opens it in the same tab/window/instance. If you publish as flash 8/9 and turn off tabbed browsing in IE, it works as expected, go figure! No, this is not a "popup blocking" feature, it's a bug. Any Flash getURL() call is simply broken IE7 in it's default configuration. I know, I could use the javascript: url method and use JS to spawn a new window, but the company I work for has a catalouge of 60+ flash 6 casino games that we'd need to update as each game contains a button which spawns an HTML page with the game help file and rules. Opening that page in the same browser instance kills the game session which is a big problem as most of our games need to maintain state, and most of our users will try to view the help file in the middle of a game. Furthermore, if we update any of the games they need to be re-audited at around $4k per game (we're one of the few fully gonvernment regulated casinos, all above board, but it's costly). So, Mr Bush makes it illegal for the US (70% of revenu came form the U.S. last month) to play our games and now M$ breaks them for the rest of our customers unless we dump over a quater of a million $$$ getting them re-audited! I swear, the U.S. is out to ruin us. We've been lobbying MS for months about this to no avail, and the issue has been know about for 9 months or more according to some forum posts from pre-release testers I've seen. We've been hyping firefox to our users for the past few months and the stats are starting to slide, but we still have around 75% IE usage. Honestly, how hard can it be to not break something so daftly simple...!? </rant> Asside form that glaring issue, IE7 is actualy fairly good standards wise compared to 6. I've been using it as part of our testing suite for the past 4-5 months. Of course, it's still trumped by the likes of Firefox 1.5/2 and Opera, but a step in the right direction for the masses none the less. p.s. anyone loooking to employ a flash game developer, I might be in need of a new job some time soon ;) [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/992]Dracusis[/url] on 10-24-2006 02:06)[/small] Loading...
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