[thelist] Flash Causes Gibberish in Popup Window

Jono ox4dboy at comcast.net
Thu Jul 1 11:41:13 CDT 2004


I have a button that opens a flash 7 file in a popup window.  The button
uses JavaScript as follows:

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<script type="text/javascript"><!-- //this comment tag hides the JavaScript
from older, non JavaScript browsers


var tbdemo

function openWindow() {

    tbdemo = 
window.open("../engine/bg/files/library/atlas_screenshot_04-b_jy.swf",

    "tbdemoWindow",

    "width=770,height=630,scrollbars=no,resizable=no")

    tbdemo.focus()

}

//end script hiding --></script><noscript>JavaScript is disabled in your
browser. If it was enabled, the demo would launch in a new window, instead
of in the same window.</noscript>

<p align="right"><a title="Start Flash demo (appears in a new window)"
onclick="openWindow('../engine/bg/files/library/atlas_screenshot_04-b_jy.swf
');return false"  
href="../engine/bg/files/library/atlas_screenshot_04-b_jy.swf"><img
alt="Start Flash demo (appears in a new window)"
src="../engine/bg/images/dynamic/2952004155028_btn_startdemo.gif" border="0"
/></a>


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When I test this functionality in IE 6 it works perfectly. Any version of IE
before 6, including IE 5.2.x on Mac, is causing a popup to open, but instead
of the flash file loading into the window, the window displays A LOT of
gibberish.  All of the tested browsers have the latest Flash player plug-in.


Anyone ever seen this before?  Any suggestions on how to fix?



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