# My movie appears fine in Firefox...but is tiny in IE?

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**Created:** [April 29, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-movie-appears-fine-in-firefox-but-is-tiny-in-ie/287292 "2009-04-29T08:47:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonnyw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed655f/32.png) [@jonnyw](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jonnyw)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-movie-appears-fine-in-firefox-but-is-tiny-in-ie/287292/1 "2009-04-29T08:47:07Z")

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Hi,

I’m using a simple php script to overlay videos onto sites and while it works ok in Firefox (although some sites like [google.com](http://google.com) trip it up…no idea why!), in IE, the flash appears at half the size.

[http://scusiciao.com/testing/a/get.php](http://scusiciao.com/testing/a/get.php)

Take the first choice ‘Abbey’, for example, this is the contents of the referenced abbey.inc file that is pulling down that clip:

```auto

<div id="talkinghead">
 <object classid="clsid[IMG]http://board.flashkit.com/board/images/smilies/biggrin.gif[/IMG]27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
 codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
 width="300 height="410">
 <param name="movie" value="http://scusiciao.com/testing/a/abbey.swf" />
 <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
 <embed src="http://scusiciao.com/testing/a/abbey.swf" width="300" height="410" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
 </embed>
 </object>
 </div>

```

So both the object and embed tags both display the correct width and height but she is appearing a lot smaller.

Would anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Jonny.

//note - a friend put the php together for me I’ve seen the script references a defs.php file containing the following:

```auto
<?php
 //definitions
 
 $startstyle = "<style type=\"text/css\">
<!--
";
 $endstyle = <<<EOT
 -->
 </style>
 <!--[if lte IE 6]>
 <style type="text/css">
 html, body {
   height: 100%;
   overflow: auto;
 }
 #talkinghead {
   position: absolute;
 }
 </style>
 <![endif]-->
  <!-- no cache headers -->
  <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
  <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
  <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
  <!-- end no cache headers -->
 EOT;
 
 //end definitions
 ?>

```

not sure if this is relevant but it’s the only other file referencing IE in any way!