Publishing Flash MX

Bradshaw · #1 (**permalink**) 10-10-2003, 05:48 AM

Hi all, just seeking some advice, am new to Flash MX and wanted to know...when I publish a flash site and upload it does it have to be within a HTML document or can it go up as an idependent site? Thanks

Dan

mysticlighthouse · #2 (**permalink**) 10-10-2003, 04:08 PM

It can be either. The advantage of having it in html are title and meta tags (for Search Engines), ability to talk back and forth with javascript, etc. I can't find too many reasons why you'd want to just present it as swf, but that's up to your preference.

Amus · #3 (**permalink**) 10-20-2003, 06:17 PM

Not as many people have the Flash 6 player. You can save your file in a lower version if you are not using anything that requires the version 6 player.

Sualdam · #4 (**permalink**) 10-20-2003, 06:32 PM

Since Flash is usually about graphics and manipulation of graphics, publishing just the swf means that the movie will resize to the entire browser window.

If someone has a screen resolution of greater than 800x600 the animation will slow down considerably. Alpha fades are jumpy, animation is too.

Also, bitmap images created at a smaller size will stretch and become pixellated.

The site will therefore look awful to a heck of a lot of people.

Bradshaw · #5 (**permalink**) 10-21-2003, 03:51 AM

Many thanks for your comments

Cheers

Dan