new netscape and flash

[blended]

I've not been around for a while, but here's a new issue.

I've been told that netscape 20.3 (or whatever it's up to) doesn't play back flash movies. Is this true? I've had people view my latest stuff (made with flash 5) on macs and pcs and all is fine using either browser. Except for Netscape X. What's the story with this? I heard the new version sucked, but this would be extreme. Anyhow, the site in question is:

http://www.rambutanchicago.com

Any comments would be appreciated. I don't want to build a non-flash site, so a work-around to this would be great.

Thanks,

Blended

 

[oldnewbie]

Hi Blended,
This seems to be workin' fine in IE5.5 or NS4.76 on PC.
I've heard of major problems with NS6.0, not only concerning Flash, so I haven't downloaded it yet. I'm waiting!
I think Patricia (handle=pbb) mentioned something about some of the problems in one of her last posts.
Maybe you can search for it using NS or her handle?

Ok! Just did the search myself and this is the one:
thread250-63391 - a few posts down in the thread!

;-)

 

[davdesign]

hi, I'm at the pz office at the minute and they don't have NS6, so I'll test it when I get home.

I did have some problems with N6 not recognising my flashplayer, and not giving me the option to download since it obviously didn't detect it. I cleaned up hte problem by reinstalling the f5 player in the N6 folder. As far as I am aware N6 is still a beta verison so I wouldn't expect too much from it at present if it is causing problems.

dave davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[pbb]

Hi blended,
I checked your site on NS6 and I did not detect too many problems. Only that if you are not in a maximized screen (full screen) you can not see all the buttons. You can see the whole upper part of your frame set fine by scrolling, but there not way to scroll on the lower part, therefore no way to see all the buttons.
But anyway, as I've said before, NS 6 is still a beta and it's full of bugs. So you should not worry too much about it. Or else make a separate version, for NS6, and have a detect plug in.
A last remark, on my Mac (et ne fais pas de commentaire Old, sinon, je viens te tirer les moustaches!!) for some reason the names "reservations" and "ideas" overlap each other (the "s" is over the "i&quot ...
Good luck
Patricia

 

[davdesign]

ahhh, I knew I'd heard it recently that N6 was beta, must've been you Patricia...

dave
;-) davdesign@pinkzeppelin.com

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[pbb]

;-)

 

[blended]

Thank you all for the help. Perhaps it was an isolated incident (the word was that all you could see was code). I didn't know about it still being a beta version, but that's good 'cause they got a long way to go from what I hear. Thanks for the tip about the bottom button frame in Netscape on a Mac (darn the browser/platform wars) that will be fixed soon. Especially that overlapping problem.

Muchas gracias,

Blended