IE double click to activate flash

admin — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:15:15 +0000

Microsoft released an update for Internet Explorer that changed the way the browser
displays and runs ActiveX components, flash movies and Java applets.
Because of security issues the browser asks you to activate these controls by clicking on them. Meaning that to actually “browse” through the flash site, you need to double click it the first time.
Read more about it here: Flash Player Technote: Internet Explorer displays a box around flash content

A way to prevent this is by including your swf file with an external javascript file. More information on how to do this you find here: Active content update article

And for the lazy ones among us, this should be a free program that solves it for you (didn’t try it myself): Flash Release.

A nice video on it, you can find here: YouTube Video

Reserved space for vertical scrollbar in IE

admin — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:02:22 +0000

IE reserves space for their vertical scrollbar. This, isn’t always very desirable … Of course, there’s no problem if you actually need the scrollbar, but when you don’t …

When you use a bgcolor1 in the body and place a div tag in it over the full width of your page with another bgcolor2, you’ll see that in the space reserved for the vertical scrollbar bgcolor1 will appear and not the desired bgcolor2.
This is b/c IE reserves that space for the scrollbar, whether you need it or not … FF on the other hand never reserves the space … the downside of this could be that when the scrollbar is needed you’ll see your page content move. But … in this example, it still is the lesser of the 2 evils …

So, the workaround for IE, so that it doesn’t reserve that space, is:

body {
overflow: auto;
}

HTML {
overflow: auto;
}

you need both!!

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IE double click to activate flash

Reserved space for vertical scrollbar in IE