Re: FLASH: relative URLS in Mac IE 4.5: bug?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

Not being on a Mac myself, I rely on others to test Mac compatibility for 

me. Maybe someday I'll have the luxury of owning a Mac just so I can watch 

IE mess up :-)  (Please, this is not to knock Macs -- a G4 is on my wishlist!).


At 04:29 PM 2/23/00 , you wrote:


> >Yup, MSIE bug (at what point does a swarm of bugs

> >become deliberate sabotage?).

> >Anyway, use absolute paths for MacIE 4.5

> >compatability.

> >

> >--- "Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media"

>

><maildartfrogmedia [dot] com> wrote:

> >> I just became aware that a relative URL in a

> >> Flash button goTo was not

> >> functioning correctly in Mac IE 4.5. I used

> >> "../subdir/file.htm" to refer

> >> to a file in a sibling directory on the server,

> >> but IE looked for the

> >> entire path in the current directory and, of

> >> course, came up with a 404

> >> Page Not Found error.

> >

>

>Is this an intermittent bug?  I've used relative paths on several sites,

>and have yet to encounter MacIE incompatibility on this issue (although I

>could still blow up IE for other reasons).

>

>Thanks for the tip.  I'll keep it in mind for future projects.  I just want

>to know if I need to redo any past sites.



Marc Hoffman


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