Comments for Patrick McDonald

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Ann

Ann — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:14:00 +0000

On this one server I’m working with, hard-coding the total file size doesn’t even make a difference. That temporary fix has always worked for me before.
Here the file thinks it’s completed when the preloader has only loaded to about 1/3.

Do you think it’s possible to make the flash file work fine with gzip?
Why do all the other files on the page (images, js, etc.) still work fine?

What should I do now, ugh…

Comment on Tweening to a Relative Position using a Variable in TweenMax by T_naulet

T_naulet — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:25:00 +0000

Excatly what I was looking for; it wokrs perfectly. Thanks!!

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Email — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:44:00 +0000

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Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by SC

SC — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 09:24:00 +0000

So thanks !!!
Since nearly 2 years I “search” for this trouble !
Games

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Louai Munajim

Louai Munajim — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:34:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing Charles. A real find, saved me when I had to update the DNS entries on my Mac (changing the hosts file no longer worked).
Anyways …
I also had issues with a gzipped environment, had to write an additional fall back preloader that had an indeterminate state. Just displays bytes loaded. That way it never fails. You can see it running here in the two states.
flash preloader

Comment on Dropbox is About to Have a Price Cut by OR not

OR not — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:59:53 +0000

Or not apparently, dropbox is currently $200/100GB/yr
Not really much cheaper, especially given the logic of your post and comparing to google docs

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Li

Li — Fri, 27 May 2011 16:40:40 +0000

Woa! That is a hard bug to find. Thanks for the info.

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Ken

Ken — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:36:07 +0000

Found this article just after I solved the problem…
Good that you shared this information. It’s weird how the gzip it’s changes the MIME type.
I did this to my .htaccess

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Kubilay KAYA

Kubilay KAYA — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:30:59 +0000

I had same problem & solved hard
just download this rar
unzip rar file and upload .htaccess file to your public_html folder.

[I took out the download link. The code suggested by Kubilay is below instead]

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SetEnv no-gzip dont-vary

# Don't compress images/flash
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \
\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png|swf|flv)$ no-gzip dont-vary

Comment on Flash Preloading Errors? Turn Off gzip. by Lieven Cardoen

Lieven Cardoen — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:08:04 +0000

I had a similar issue this week where our Flex application suddenly didn’t load in FireFox anymore. All other browsers worked fine. The problem was also GZIP. We just got a white screen in FireFox. The swf was loaded but no content was displayed. Have written a blog post about it with a reference to your blog post.
http://blog.johlero.eu/2010/09/26/white-screen-when-loading-flash-in-firefox-gzip-problem/