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johnm

Dec 7 2006, 09:25 AM

Hi

I have an html page with a full screen flash movie. It displays fine in IE6 but in Firefox the height distorts so that it only occupies the top quarter of the screen.

If I remove the following from the code then it displays fine but I get told by an online validator that my document is not valid code.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

I haven't really got to grips with advanced html . Any tips please?

jimlongo

Dec 7 2006, 09:41 AM

You need to either show us your html or the URL of the document

johnm

Dec 7 2006, 09:45 AM

it is www.mad4maths.com/TEST9.html . thanks

jimlongo

Dec 7 2006, 09:53 AM

Try replacing the part before the <head> tag with this

CODE

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">

Then change this

CODE

to this

CODE

See if that works any better.

johnm

Dec 7 2006, 10:18 AM

Unfortunately not. The second bit of code that you suggested replacing had been commented by me as it is redundant.
see www.mad4maths.com/TEST12.html

john

jimlongo

Dec 7 2006, 11:26 AM

It is not redundant.

No matter what the W3C says, it is rendered better than object in some browsers. In fact it is rendered in all browsers. The only reason you need an object tag is so Explorer can get the right plug-in if it's not already installed.

So suit yourself, but I'd still suggest trying it.

johnm

Dec 7 2006, 12:07 PM

i have tried it to no avail.
but thanks for your comments
john

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