# Netscape 7.01 and % sizing in Flash

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netscape-7-01-and-sizing-in-flash/9598>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 14, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netscape-7-01-and-sizing-in-flash/9598 "2002-12-14T20:46:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![mediapup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@mediapup](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mediapup)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netscape-7-01-and-sizing-in-flash/9598/1 "2002-12-14T20:46:23Z")

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I upgraded to Netscape 7.01 and much to my surprise, after the upgrade some of my Flash 5 animations displayed as blank pages in NS 7.01 and Mozilla.

After comparing the animations that were still working to the ones that weren’t, I discovered the only difference was that the ones working specified absolute pixel values in the EMBED tag, and the movies specifying percent values no longer worked.

I decided to remove the Transitional doctype from files that were problematic:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-// W3C//DTD HTML 4,0 Transitional//EN”

This worked. Netscape 7.01 and Mozilla now scale my Flash 5 animations to full window size again. Please note that Netscape 7.0 did _not_ have any problem with the DOCTYPE and percent scaling. Mozilla also uses the Gecko engine, so…

Apparently this is a “bug” in Netscape although I’m sure they would prefer to think of it as adhering to browser standards. -🙂

Cheers,  
Ms. M.  
[http://www.mediapup.com/](http://www.mediapup.com/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netscape-7-01-and-sizing-in-flash/9598/2 "2002-12-14T21:19:51Z")

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Hmm, I have just 7.0, but thanks for letting me know about this problem in 7.1, it will save me some aggrivation in the future.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 6:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netscape-7-01-and-sizing-in-flash/9598/3 "2002-12-16T18:50:44Z")

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I actually have gone to some sites lately where Flash didn’t play and I didn’t know why. I just figured it was bad programming. :\*(

I’ll have to remember that since I use NS7.1. Also a lot of people use AOL. Isn’t that Netscape browser now?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/netscape-7-01-and-sizing-in-flash/9598/4 "2002-12-16T19:39:03Z")

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Yeah AOL 8.0 starts the use of Netscape with AOL.