[sIFR3-dev] Small mystery bug

[Ken Dunnington]

Thanks Mark, that did indeed help! I've got it working in FF/Win, IE/Win and
Safari now. I've encapsulated all the sIFR setup code in a function which
gets called at the end of the head section. I've also turned on bAutoInit.
The "cutoff" issue seems to have been solved by making sure bAutoInit is
true. I can reliably duplicate the problem by setting it to false. Setting
this to false will also cause Safari to never render the text, though this
could be a problem with dojo's addOnLoad method? Is using sIFR.setup() in
the head, and then calling sIFR(); later on proper use?

I can't for the life of me figure out why FF/Mac is not displaying the SWF
text though. It's there in the DOM tree, and in fact if I remove the wMode
parameter it will appear temporarily if selected, but it disappears shortly
afterwards. This might be related to the slide show swapping images from
z-index 1 to 2, but the spans which contain the SWF object are all set to
z-index 3, and are working in the other browsers. Is there some peculiarity
with FF/Mac I've forgotten about?

I also upgraded to Flash 9 (beta Universal Binary) on the Mac which I think
was part of Safari's problem.

Thanks for all your help,
 - Ken

On 7/18/06, Mark Wubben < mark at novemberborn.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
>
> Looking at your code it would seem that sIFR is only set up /
> activated after the document has loaded. However, for sIFR to work
> correctly it needs to detect a page load, which means the set up
> needs to happen before the page is loaded (in the head element). My
> apologies if this wasn't clear in my explanation earlier through the
> Dojo list.
>
> Please let me know if that solves your issues, or at least part of it,
>
> On Jul 17, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Ken Dunnington wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Here is a link to my current testcase: http://
> > dev.aspen7.mindseye.com/flashExample/cutoff.html
> > I can replicate the problem in FF/Win by reloading a few times. I
> > cannot get the text to display in FF/Mac nor even render in Safari.
> > I've tried using version 3 (r119) without much luck so I'm using a
> > slightly modified version 2.0.2 (all I did was add a drop shadow to
> > the text in the textfield when exporting my SWF.) I almost hate to
> > say this, but IE/Win is the only one rendering it properly
> > (including line heights, though that's only a minor issue which I
> > know can be fixed with the right CSS.)
> >
> > Specs are:
> > FF 1.5, Flash 9 (9.0 r16) - randomly cuts off text on right side
> > IE 6, Flash 9 (9.0.16) - can't replicate problem
> > FF 1.5 Mac, Flash 8 (8.0 r27) - renders, but does not display text
> > Safari 2 Mac, Flash 8 ( 8.0 r27) - doesn't render text, no
> > Javascript errors reported
> >
> > On the Mac side, I'm using the Universal Binary Flash 8, which is
> > not final, so I'm willing to discount these browsers for the time
> > being, though Flash 8 is my target (and I haven't had any other
> > problems with Flash content.)
> >
> > On 7/14/06, Mark Wubben <mark at novemberborn.net> wrote: I can't
> > replicate this on the Mac, with Flash 9. Are you using Flash 8?
> >
> > Ken, as I noticed you subscribed to the list, and posted about this
> > on the forum [1], what are your system specifics? Can you replicate
> > with Fredrik's testcase at <http://branstrom.nu:81/new/sifr3-r103/
> > demo/>?
> >
> > [1]: http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=11102
> >
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