centered div with Flash ie8 problems

radams · Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

Hi
every time i center a div with a certain one of my flash animations in ie 8, it doesn't work properly.

Also this only occurs when the browser is maximised

works fine in firefox

here is non centered
http://www.reflections.co.uk/hk/loader.html

and centered
http://www.reflections.co.uk/hk/

try them maximised and at a reduced size
Any suggestions appreciated

Roy

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3593 Location: Biloxi, MS

Your problems stem from improper or lack of a document type. You have many critical errors in HTML coding:

HTML Errors

In page centered, you have even more errors:

HTML Errors (Centered Page)

Without a document type, you put all browsers in Quirks Mode which guarantees that your pages will NOT be cross browser compatible.

You are using outdated coding. Best to use CSS when you are using divs. Make a wrapper div for the media player:

radams · Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

Hi
Tried that
had tried that already, but that is an old page

from my experience page won't validate, with X/HTML
unless i put flash on the page with JS

still no joy

radams · Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

there are now no errors for
http://www.reflections.co.uk/hk/loader.html
but still same problem

radams · Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

The problem was with the swf

Some how the size of it must have been changing when the browser was maximised.

so i think the _xmouse function,
which is checking to see where the mouse is wasn't returning the correct values

anyway once i put in
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

everything seems fine

weird that this only happened in I.E 8

PayneLess Designs · Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3593 Location: Biloxi, MS

WOW, http://www.reflections.co.uk/hk/loader.html looks very good. Just remove the language="JavaScript" attributes as that is an outdated one and only the type="" is used. Strange the validator didn't flag that.