[thelist] Flash Causes Gibberish in Popup Window

Erik Mattheis gozz at gozz.com
Thu Jul 1 19:54:38 CDT 2004


The MIME type is not set on the server.  
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/tn4151.html

You probably won't have any problems if you embed the SWF in HTML as 
Damien suggests, although a few outdated browsers need the MIME type 
sent even if it's embedded in HTML.

On Thursday, July 1, 2004, at 12:38  PM, Damien COLA wrote:

> by the way the gibberish you see is for sure the ascii content of the
> .swf file. For some reason the faulty browsers just display the flash
> file as if it was a .txt file, even though they have the flash plugins
> installed.

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