Problem scaling to fit browser window in Netscape

programming flash
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I published my Flash MX 2004 movie using “percent” (width and height = 100%) so it would scale to fit the size of the browser window regardless of screen resolution. It works fine in IE. However, in Netscape 7.1, it not only doesn’t scale, it is tiny (looks like a 3 x 5 card even though actual size of movie is 772 x 472). When I just play the swf in Netscape (outside of the html page created by Flash when it is published) it scales fine.

I have not read anything about there being a Netscape problem anywhere. The tutorial on this site doesn’t mention there being a problem with Netscape.

I really hope someone can help me with this. It is designed to scale and will look a little funny if I have to go back to publishing to match the actual size of the movie. I need for it to work in both browsers.

Thanks,
Joan

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Hey mate, I’ve got the same problem in Moz/Firefox on Windows and Camino on Mac.

Did you ever find a solution? I’m still lookin’

Thank you.
mark

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Yes I did! No thanks to Macromedia though, who acknowledged that it was a bug and said they were working on it. They never did get back to me.

I found the solution through trial and error. It works with every browser when I change the doctype to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>

Hope this helps.

Joan

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Of course, I see now…

Thanks a bunch, was killing myself over that one for too long!

Cheers,
mark :wink: