Flash question

zag

I'm using Flash 4, to create animations for a website I am working on, I have a few questions/problems.

Is it better to use animated gifs rather than Flash or Shockwave, because no third party software is required?

When I export a movie as SWF or FLA, and place it on the webpage in Dreamweaver, it displays fine on my pc, but, when I view it on someone elses pc, nothing happens. I mean, the web page opens up, but there is just a blank space where the anim should be, and no prompts to download anything.

buddy

I think once the replies come streaming in that they'll be along the lines of "Flash is Flash, no need for it unless it can do something that a gif or other method cannot do just as well instead".

And I'd agree that unless you need some really hi tech flash interface that you should you pics instead.

Stupid question: Does the other person have access to both the html page and the swf file??

zag

yep. I had the whole lot copied over. Although I think flash looks a hell of alot better, and it usually loads alot faster too.

impr0v

If you have xhtml declarations on the page, try removing them and categorise the page as basic html. I vaguely remember having some sort of problems with it before, some of the tags that flash inserts when you publish to html not being valid xhtml.