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

[Matthew Buchanan]

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

>>> Flash button goTo was not

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


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

>> become deliberate sabotage?).


> 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).


This bug occurs when the SWF file is not in the same directory as

the HTML page which calls it. Keep your SWF files in the same

dir as your HTML pages and relative URLs will work fine...


( Mac IE looks for the relative URL beginnning at the HTML, instead

of from the SWF as it should. Thus they must be in the same dir for

the URL to work. )



Matthew Buchanan   http://www.webmedia.co.nz   649.377.7910



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