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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Flash 4.0 / Get URL / Frames
From:	Beau Bisquette
Date:	Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:50:13 GMT

At 2/2/00 09:42 AM -0700, John Olson wrote:
>I am using Flash for a navigational toolbar on our web page. When I use
>the Get URL to call some existing html pages on our site, I call them to a
>certain frame '_main', I also update the information in another frame
>'_leftscroll'.
>
>It is working fine using Netscape 4.6/4.7 on both Mac and PC.. but
>Internet Explorer 5.0 keeps putting the called URL into the same frame as
>the Flash navigational toolbar. IE 4.5 on the Mac goes really wacky.
>
>Okay.. what am I missing? Do I need to use different GetURL calls for
>different browsers?

I think it's your underscores -- they're treated as a flag for the four
reserved targets _blank, _top, _self, and _parent. Other
underscore-preceded names will be ignored by compliant (sorry Netscape)
browsers. See O'Reilly's "HTML The Definitive Guide", page 422.

If you change your target names you should have much better success.
Beau Bisquette
TPC Productions
Oakland, California

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