# Mac-trouble: standard site w/SWF's won't load on Mac. Anyone please?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772
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**Created:** [July 7, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772 "2004-07-07T17:59:43Z")
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### Author:  [@Lunasol](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lunasol)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/1 "2004-07-07T17:59:43Z")
Hello all. I’ve followed this forum for quite a while now, and I’ve found answers to most of my design-questions over here. But now I have a problem which puzzles me. I’m a complete Flash-newbie, so please bear with me 😉
Ok, so I’ve made this pretty standard HTML/CSS based site, which uses 2 Flash movies: 1 for logo animation, and 1 for menu/nav. I’ve made the site with Dreamweaver MX, and I inserted the movies in table cells for layout/positioning (with the standard ‘insert\>media\>flash’ option in DW MX).
**The problem** : the site works perfectly in IE 6 and Firefox for Windows (XP) on my PC. But this afternoon someone emailed me that they can’t view/load the site on a Mac. I’ve asked a friend with a Mac to check out the site, and he also couldn’t access the site; they got a blue screen (with the title (from the TITLE tag) at the top). My friend uses IE5 on his Mac, the other person’s browser is unknown. My friend can however access all kinds of Flash-sites, like [FontsForFlash.com](http://FontsForFlash.com) and [Macromedia.com](http://Macromedia.com). I asked him to try those and there was no problem there.
So what have I done wrong? Do I need some special tags for my pages to load on a Mac? Or have I done something wrong in exporting my movies?
I really don’t have a clue and as the rest of the site is pretty standard (no complicated CSS, no CSS positioning, no scripts, layout done oldfashioned way with tables), I think the problem must lie in the Flash movies. I just don’t understand why the whole page won’t load, instead of just not loading/showing the Flash movies? Movies are pretty standard too, my first Flash ever, so no actionscript (except for GetURL and STOP functions :))
If someone could help me out, I will be eternally thankful!!!
Here’s the site:
**[http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl](http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl)**
If anyone needs my .fla’s or anything, just let me know.
Thanx in advance!!
Cheers,
Angie
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/2 "2004-07-07T21:40:59Z")
It’s working here on Safari and Mozilla, though not on IE…
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/3 "2004-07-07T22:03:19Z")
Hmm, thanx Scotty. So it’s just IE5.? for Mac that’s causing trouble (well, actually I am of course :)).
At least I narrowed it down a bit…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/4 "2004-07-07T22:08:09Z")
> [@Lunasol](#):
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> Hmm, thanx Scotty. So it’s just IE5.? …
Yep:)
But that it shouldn’t, can you post your fla’s?
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/5 "2004-07-08T16:08:00Z")
Yeah, but they are too large to upload, so here’s the link, put them on a server:
[http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl/flash/logo.fla](http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl/flash/logo.fla)
[http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl/flash/menu.fla](http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl/flash/menu.fla)
Thanx, I still don’t have a clue.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/6 "2004-07-08T17:49:56Z")
That makes two: I don’t have a clue either:stunned:
If I insert them in html with dreamweaver (in tables), everything is working.
I’ve checked in IE5.2/Mozilla/Safari and no problems, so I guess it has to be something else in the html/css?
Maybe it’s a known bug in IE vs Mac, I’ll see if I can find something:)
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/7 "2004-07-08T18:07:38Z")
Hey, ok, thanx. Then it must be:
1. something in css as you said, I’ll doublecheck everything
2. maybe it’s a IE **5.1** problem…
Frustrating that I don’t have a Mac myself to check things myself after I changed something.
Slowly getting somewhere 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/8 "2004-07-08T18:56:13Z")
it may be something in the CSS because I use to use insert/flash in dreamweaver all the time on a Mac using IE5 and it worked everywhere just fine.
Cheers
Sandman9
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/9 "2004-07-08T20:40:22Z")
Didn’t read it, but maybe this is usefull:
[http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/](http://www.l-c-n.com/IE5tests/)
\*tip: search on google “mac+ie+problems” gives 1,730.000 hits, so you have a read
for the coming days;)
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/10 "2004-07-08T21:38:43Z")
Funny, I had just found the same page :).
So I changed the doctype declaration and I discovered a double link tag to my style-sheet. Changed that and now I’m curious if it works on the Mac…
Sorry to bother you one more time with this; I really appreciate the trouble on my behalf, so thanx again!
[http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl/index.htm](http://www.strandpaviljoenpantarhei.nl/index.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/11 "2004-07-08T22:05:19Z")
=)It works=)
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2004, 10:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/12 "2004-07-08T22:10:13Z")
Jippie!!!
Thanx a lot for everything, I’m really relieved, hate it if things don’t work like I want them to 😛
:thumb:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mac-trouble-standard-site-w-swfs-wont-load-on-mac-anyone-please/56772/13 "2004-07-09T07:23:22Z")
no problem:)