Flash (7.2) Updater Released
120 fixes and additions including a new scrollbar component and greatly improved documentation. Unfortunately no fix for the MovieClipLoader class, but all in all a very welcomed update. Read more about it here.
Work Update
Currently on contract in Bournemouth. I built a little itinerary planner application this week for the Docklands Light Railway project. Must have Flash 7 player: http://www.visitdocklands.co.uk/planner/index.asp
Neil - 7/31/2004 07:20:34 PM
Sunday, July 18, 2004
Flash in FireFox
If you use Mozilla Firefox you may have come across Flash sites that don't render properly - part of the Flash movie ends up off-screen or is displayed with incorrect proportions. A solution can be found here.
When you publish your movie Flash will generate the following HTML header:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
FireFox appears to have problems with the XHTML reference and this really becomes problematic if you're publishing your movie with percentage settings. If not then you probably won't encounter any problems.
One solution for Flash-only sites is to replace the above line of code with <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
There is also an alternative method described, which uses HTML4 along with a StyleSheet, to ensure you keep the link to the dtd file. Thanks to Egg for coming up with a solution to this nagging problem!
