Flash in valid pages and annoying IE

[Maljonic]

Has anyone noticed how when you use valid code for Flash movies you get this annoying little picture, for a brief moment, behind the movie when the page refreshes in IE?

If you use standard code for the movie it's fine, only it wont validate with w3c of course. It's fine in Firefox either way.

For instance I just started working on this site: http://www.kickstartyork.co.uk/

which does have valid XHTML. If you refresh the page you get an annoying little application image in the left corner of the flash buttons movie, only in Internet Explorer that is. It doesn't stop it working or anything, it just annoys me to see it.

Any ideas how to not see it, or is it not possible to be rid of the thing? I thought of putting a little div over that bit, but that's plain silly surely?

 

[KevinUK]

Cant you achieve the same effect with CSS? I never have liked flash / javascript coding for menus because if the user has them disabled they cant navigate at all.

 

[Maljonic]

Well probably, but that has nothing to do with the problem. It's the same thing if it's a Flash banner, those buttons are just an example (and somewhere more obvious I guess), it's the same on this site: http://www.wiles.family.btinternet.co.uk/ for instance with the banner at the top.

 

[JingleBells]

Have you tried the Flash Satay method?

 

[Maljonic]

I'm not sure how that would help?

 

[JingleBells]

No idea, however I didn't read all your thread properly

What you see is the image placeholder logo thingy which displays just before any image/object is loaded (disable images in IE and see it appear for all images), I doubt there is owt you can do.

 

[SheepCow]

The image icon is hidden when the object loads over the top of it, it's just a placeholder ...