Do you see ladybugs crawling in IE6.x?

[Guest]

hi everyone!

 

some users on IE6.x report the pages not downloading completely and not seeing a little Flash piece we threw in an infobox in the lower right corner with the box heading "Don't Bug Out".

 

how about you folks? do you see ladybugs at www.neverbetter.com?

 

thanks in adv:)

[Guest]

hold on...got it.....will write it up momentarily

[bobg7]

You mean the little ceriiers in the lower right side getting frisky? :lol:

 

I can see them in IE6, FF and NS

[Guest]

yes bob, those are the ones. i think i nailed it just before you looked at it.

 

ok, here we go. i guess i'm updating the Flash in infoboxes or infobox Flash or background Flash threads.

 

1. make a copy of the information.php, name it your_box_name.php

2. strip it down so everything between the <?php and the ?> looks like this:

 

$info_box_contents = array();

$info_box_contents[] = array('text' => BOX_HEADING_YOUR_BOX_NAME);

 

new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);

 

$info_box_contents = array();

$info_box_contents[] = array('align' => 'left',

'text' => BOX_CONTENTS_YOUR_BOX_NAME);

 

new infoBox($info_box_contents);

 

3. you have to change the YOUR_BOX_NAME values to what you want.

 

4. open /includes/languages/english.php, add and customize this instead of the garbage that Macromedia gave you:

 

// added ladybug flash box in includes/boxes/your_box_name.php

 

define('BOX_HEADING_YOUR_BOX_NAME', 'Box Title Can Be Blank');

define('BOX_CONTENTS_YOUR_BOX_NAME', '

<div align="center" class="obj">

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/catalog/images/infobox/your_box_flash.swf" width="125" height="200">

<param name="movie" value="/catalog/images/infobox/your_box_flash.swf" />

<param name="quality" value="high" />

</object>

');

 

5. you can throw in any other standard params like <param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> or

<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />

 

notes:

 

you can use this to call all kinds of object stuff;) it even validates to XHTML 1.0 Strict. if you don't use align on the <div> that is.

 

tested in IE6.0.2.2800, FF107, NN7, NN8, Op8. any breakage on the Mac side?

 

originally i just threw the Flash content into the new infobox page, but saw a style class applied that i suspected might have had to do with the problem so i moved it to /languages/english.php. it would probably be neater to move the content call to it's own page in /languages/english/. is that being proper or going overboard? in any case, the output remaineth the same. except for the class id.