Re: FLASH: Passing <PARAM> or equiv to a flash movie in netscape

[John Dowdell]

At 8:53 AM 2/16/0, Gareth Vaughan wrote:

>I've managed to pass some variables to a flash movie using the param tags

>which works great with in my OBJECT (so it works in IE)bit of markup but

>when I try something similar with the EMBED (so it will work in netscape)

>markup it doesn't work.

>

>        <param name="movie" value="flash

>movie.swf?<%response.write("&Question="+ Server.URLEncode(strQuestion))%>">

>        [snip]

>        <embed width="800" height="550" align="absmiddle"

>src="Flash%20movie.swf" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" movie="flash

>movie.swf?<%response.write("&Question="+

>Server.URLEncode(strQuestion))%>">


I don't recall seeing such a structure before. It's not HTML when

angle-brackets nest like that, but I presume that the inner tags are being

rewritten on the server before the document is delivered to the browsers.


A few tests:


--  When you "View Source" in the Netscape browsers then what do you see

that that browser is actually being given to render?


--  How does it do when you test in IE/Mac? (This also uses the EMBED, and

could help show where the divergence from expectation arises.)


--  Do the various browsers you're using have the same version of the Flash

Player?


jd







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