Posted by cwdjrxyz on 01/22/06 21:00

Peterken wrote:
> Can anybody tell me what the considerations are when creating a page for
> flash in Opera ?
> I've got the effect of a flash animation not correctly showing in Opera.
> It shows up as a thin horizontal line at the top of the page.

Take a look at my test page at
http://www.cwdjr.info/movie/cancanSWF.php . It works for me on the
latest versions of Opera, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, and IE. The flash
image was created from a free tool that is described by clicking on the
link at the top of the flash page. You can pay the company and get rid
of the link. The flash movie was created not to autostart. I don't use
much flash, so I am not willing to pay for expensive flash software.
Note that this page is designed for broadband(I have about 2.56 Mbps
download speed from my server, so this very short clip could take a
long time to load on dialup).Since this page is a work in progress,
some of the comments in the source code may not be so clear yet. I use
two methods. Of course for a working page you would use only one method
with all of the commented code removed. For flash files that load
rapidly, I use a pure object method without AX. For very large flash
files such as this, the IE6 will not start playing until the download
is complete. For IE type browsers only, the IE conditional comments are
used to use ActiveX for IE based browsers only. Of course ActiveX is
valid up to xhtml 1.1- at least the W3C validator does not complain. It
is just that most browsers other than IE do not support it. And of
course many flash codes contain an embed path which works, but it is
not valid and the validator gives you many complaints if you use it. I
wanted to avoid having to write a short "starter" flash file, of the
same dimensions as the main flash file, as required for the so-called
Satay method. There are several other approaches to handling the IE6
flash complication, and both advantages and disadvantages can be quoted
for all of them.

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