# Aol Flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 9, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152 "2003-02-09T18:54:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@sheep](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sheep)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152/1 "2003-02-09T18:54:02Z")
is there any reason why an AOL browers wouldnt be able to read a flash site… it works fine with IE and netscape…
any ideas?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152/2 "2003-02-09T20:44:20Z")
c’mon, someones gotta know something.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 9:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152/3 "2003-02-09T21:22:11Z")
Sorry man… I left AOL at 5.0 I heard about some bug with that though, where if you renamed your .swf to something like .txt (on both the file and the html embed code) it would show in AOL and regular browsers.
Can’t remember where I heard that, or if it is just information mixing around in my head and in fact it was never said :crazy:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152/4 "2003-02-09T22:11:12Z")
right…so…will that screw up our .swf for IE and netscape?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/aol-flash/13152/5 "2003-02-09T23:15:28Z")
Nope, IE and Netscape should read it as a flash file still.
But as I said, I am not sure if this will work in AOL either, but it is worth a shot if that is the case.
I don’t see why AOL wouldn’t display flash anyway 7.0 and below uses IE and 8.0 uses Netscape… so I don’t get why it won’t work with the regular code.
:-\