Tag: Windows
This just makes me hurt.
by Josh on May.02, 2005, under Mac
Why?! Why would you want to do this?!
My IE-free PC
by Josh on Feb.21, 2005, under Random
Just bought a new Windows XP machine last week to run a few Windows-only apps, and so that I have a PC for testing purposes, and set it up over the weekend. In trying to protect it as much as possible, I’ve decided to make sure that Internet Explorer runs as little as possible.
Don’t forget your Content-Length
by Josh on Feb.09, 2005, under Flash
As a followup to my post the other day about some loading issues I was having, here’s some more of the story:
After we got the crossdomain.xml file fixed things started working great. Or so we thought. It worked in everything BUT Internet Explorer on Windows (XP, ME, 2000). Obviously, as much as we can’t stand IE at work, we still have to support it. I’d spent the last two days searching every forum and site I could find looking for an answer, but all I found were more people asking the same question I was. Finally today we found the problem. The JSP code running on the content server that was serving the mp3 files for us was not explicity setting the Content-Length header when it returned the mp3’s. Apparently, Safari, FireFox, and IE on Mac don’t care about this, but as soon as the content server guys added that header to the JSP, it worked beautifully in IE in Windows.
I don’t really understand too much the details of exactly why this happens with the combo of IE on Windows and the Flash player, but I’m sure that someone out there might. If you know, I’d like to know as well. Drop me line either through a comment, or using the contact form to the right.
