FLASH: S.O.S. - Problems on Mac+IE4.5

[Vishnevsky, Nelly]

Dear fellow Flashers:


My first question is about this list - is it archived anywhere on the web?

My e-mail server crashed, and I lost ALL my precious e-mails saved from many

previous months.  I have a feeling that I've seen something on the topic I'm

about to ask before, but where is it when I need it...


And now, I will proceed to my main Flash - or maybe Aftershock? - question.

Our site http://www.hillier.com was successfully launched a few weeks ago.

We received a lot of compliments on it - thank you to all of you who sent us

your comments.  However, one problem emerged:  some MAC users, most of them

running I.E. 4.5, couldn't see all graphics on the site.  In their words,

"After the initial razzle-dazzle (*meaning the intro movie - N.V.*), the

screen went black and only the copyright, mailto and help buttons were

functioning."


Unfortunately, we developed and tested the site mostly in the Wintel

environment, and don't have any Macintoshes in the office.  Can someone with

a Mac please go to our site and see if they have problems?  Maybe you can

also look at the source code generated by Aftershock and tell me if there is

anything that doesn't look right.


My observations/conclusions so far:


1.  Yesterday, I finally was able to test the Hillier site on a PowerMac

8600/300 myself and found one strange thing.  The tester Flash player movie

from Macromedia's site runs just fine, which means that the plugin was

installed correctly.  However, the tiny "Enter" Flash movie embedded into my

entry page does not animate and displays the alternate GIF file instead.

It's got to be some Aftershock setting!


2.  My intro movie runs fine, but then as soon as it gets to the home page

(or if you hit the "Skip" button), the graphics don't appear correctly on

the page.  The original homepage should contain a row of five large icons in

the center and three small ones in the upper right corner.  The only visible

ones are the tiny ones in the corner, but not the main ones.


The only difference I can think about is that the intro movie runs only in

one layer at a time, while when you get to homepage, you have several movies

playing simultaneously in multiple layers.  I seem to remember someone on

the list warning about a limit of 6 simultaneous open connections on some

systems.  Can anyone remind me what was that about, please?


3.  If, after reloading the homepage a few times, a few of the main icons do

show, hitting on them doesn't work.  The other navigation buttons either

don't work or work sporadically.  Sometimes, the homepage shows for a split

second, and then start blinking in white flashes.  I'm pretty sure that the

MIME type on our server is set correctly, because I've ran the test.  So

what else, short of an evil Microsoft spell, could be causing all this grief

for Mac users, but not PC?


Maybe it's because some of my movies have 12-15 characters long filenames?

I thought that Mac was tolerant enough for that, as long as there are no

spaces in the names.  Am I wrong here?


Any help would be greatly appreciated.  As I said, I've lost all the posts

from my e-mail box.  So if you can find some old posts from the Flasher list

that even remotely relate to my problem, please e-mail them to me directly

to

nvishnevskyhillier [dot] com

.


Thank you.


		Nelly Vishnevsky

	Manager of Electronic Marketing

        ________________________

	The Hillier Group

	e-mail:

nvishnevskyhillier [dot] com

	the ultimate renovation project: http://www.hillier.com



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