shazam-fu
04-06-2004, 10:23 AM
I've got a weird bug that only happens in IE on a mac and only on 3 pages of this site and ONLY if the browser window is small enough to require a vertical scroll bar! Of course, my client is using IE on a mac & it's a laptop w/ low screen resolution so the browser window has a vertical scroll bar so he fits all of the conditions.
The site is www.soundgems.net and the weird pages are radio, tv, and the secret fun place (you get there by clicking the button at the bottom of the home page).
The pages each consist of a different flash movie and the 3 affected pages happen to have a LONG string of variables passed to the flash movie using FlashVars in the Embed & Object tags. The variables are extracted from a MySQL database using PHP & then passed to the Flash movies.
If all of the above conditions are met, when you scroll down or up on any of these pages, it seems to have trouble redrawing the page. It draws just a piece of the screen but the rest stays static so you get a sort of stuttering image effect.
I discovered that if I print out the variable string in the HTML at the top of the page (so that it pushes the movie down), try to sroll & then reload the page, I can get it to work. Except that that's not really any type of solution! (but maybe it's a clue?) I tried just putting a at the top of the page instead but that DOESN'T work. ???
I have no idea how to fix this! Has anyone encountered this before? I'd appreciate any insight! I think it is somehow related to the fact that the movies contain a long variable string since the other flash movies on the site (with few or no variables) work fine. I've already posted this to the DevShed forum but no one there had seen this problem before.
Thanks!
The site is www.soundgems.net and the weird pages are radio, tv, and the secret fun place (you get there by clicking the button at the bottom of the home page).
The pages each consist of a different flash movie and the 3 affected pages happen to have a LONG string of variables passed to the flash movie using FlashVars in the Embed & Object tags. The variables are extracted from a MySQL database using PHP & then passed to the Flash movies.
If all of the above conditions are met, when you scroll down or up on any of these pages, it seems to have trouble redrawing the page. It draws just a piece of the screen but the rest stays static so you get a sort of stuttering image effect.
I discovered that if I print out the variable string in the HTML at the top of the page (so that it pushes the movie down), try to sroll & then reload the page, I can get it to work. Except that that's not really any type of solution! (but maybe it's a clue?) I tried just putting a at the top of the page instead but that DOESN'T work. ???
I have no idea how to fix this! Has anyone encountered this before? I'd appreciate any insight! I think it is somehow related to the fact that the movies contain a long variable string since the other flash movies on the site (with few or no variables) work fine. I've already posted this to the DevShed forum but no one there had seen this problem before.
Thanks!