How do i get flash to work in shared borders

[bill.mcn]

How do I get a flash .swf file to play in the shared borders in ie6, it works
fine on my local when I test but not on the web but it works fine on the web
with firefox.
The flash also works fine on all browsers on the web if it is not in the
shared borders.
I am using Frontpage 2003

 

[David Berry]

What's URl so we can take a look?

 

[bill.mcn]

What's URl so we can take a look?

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Hi David

Thank you for your reply, sorry forgot to put that in.
www.drivingjobs4u.co.uk if you go to the home page you will see everything is
working ok, as they are outside of the shared borders (no shared borders on
that page) but if you go to the map and click on any link you will see that
the shared border on the top will not work in ie6 but it will in Firefox.
again thank you for your reply.
Regards
Bill

 

[David Berry]

Try changing:

<param name="movie" value="../your name banner small every page.swf">

to:

<param name="movie" value="../../your name banner small every page.swf">

It appears that IE can't find the flash at the location you have. Also, to
avoid problems you shouldn't use spaces in your folder or file names. Use
Underscores instead. Ex: your_name_banner_small_every_page.swf

 

[.._..]

Better yet, use an absolute from root reference:
<param name="movie" value="/foldername/your name banner small every
page.swf">

Basically, start with a slash (which assumes the root of the web) and build
the path from there. FrontPage and browsers will have no problem finding
the resorce then as it won't matter where the file is at the time (in the
shared border folder, or in some other folder, or in the root)

 

[bill.mcn]

Try changing:

<param name="movie" value="../your name banner small every page.swf">

to:

<param name="movie" value="../../your name banner small every page.swf">

It appears that IE can't find the flash at the location you have. Also, to
avoid problems you shouldn't use spaces in your folder or file names. Use
Underscores instead. Ex: your_name_banner_small_every_page.swf

Hi again David

Ok I have tried changing the name to your_name_banner_small_every_page.swf
plus I have given it a absolute path including http:/www. and guess what? It
works fine, I can not believe how stupid I am not to have seen the problem as
I could not see the wood for the trees and spent a day trying to sort it out
and if you had not have pointed out the obvious I think I would have spent
another day going round in circles. BIG THANK YOU.
Regards
Bill

 

[David Berry]

Glad to help! Sometimes you can stare at something for hours and never see
it. We're glad to provide a "second set of eyes" to look over these kinds
of things

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP doesn't support the following path with the / as the leading character, also the spaces in a path
may also cause the link to be broken as well:

Not supported by FP:
<param name="movie" value="/foldername/your name banner small every page.swf">

Supported by FP:
<param name="movie" value="foldername/your name banner small every page.swf">
or
<param name="movie" value="./foldername/your name banner small every page.swf">
or
<param name="movie" value="../foldername/your name banner small every page.swf">
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[.._..]

<Shrug> I use that all the time.

By "support" do you mean "sees the files and does link check" and all that
stuff?

I have been modifying pretty much every path reference in all the sites I
work with to use that method (to allow stuff to get moved around by people
not so familiar with HTML) and never had anything fail to function in a
browser.

 

[Ronx]

The files will show in a browser, but if you move or rename a file
linked in this way FrontPage will not update those links to it on other
pages.
Additionally, the links will be listed in the broken hyperlinks reports
as unknown, and the files may be listed in unlinked files report.

I also use root relative links, in server side include files.
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[Thomas A. Rowe]

I mean manage, but see Ronx's reply.

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