Comments on: Making Flash movies obey browser text size changes

By: M.S. Babaei

M.S. Babaei — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:40:43 +0000

wow, that’s greate…

By: christab

christab — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:56:40 +0000

Can anyone help me? Is it possible to make flash player not work for mac users? I was on tnt.tv and their shows online don’t work for mac users even though it is a flash file. Why would progammers do this? I know it is a flash file because you control click the file and it says it is a flash9 file but still will not work in safari or foxfire. This is very confusing to me. Please let me know if their is a work around. thanks

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:47:20 +0000

This may be related to some of the problems you mentioned above, but in Firefox 2.0.0.1 it looks like it doesn’t inherit size changes from previous pages. If I increase my text size (apple plus on mac) and then visit your test page the flash movie is at it’s original size. Increasing and decreasing from there starts to scale the movie but it gets out of proportion. It is still interesting however.

By: Aral

Aral — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:33:09 +0000

Thanks, Paul. Niqui mentioned that she’d sent you a link. Thank you for taking ownership of this.

By: Paul Betlem

Paul Betlem — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:35:37 +0000

Aral,

Niqui pointed me to the key capture issue that was described here. Thanks for defining the problem with such specificity - it helps a lot.

I’ll ask an engineer on the Flash Player team to investigate the source of the problem so we can address it.

— Paul
Flash Player Engineering

By: Technikwürze » Technikwürze 51 - Das Comeback von Flash

Technikwürze » Technikwürze 51 - Das Comeback von Flash — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 06:27:49 +0000

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By: Alan Shaw

Alan Shaw — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 04:21:24 +0000

Aral: I’m using Opera, FireFox, and Maxthon every day, and only Opera does anything sane with resizing. Firefox zooms only the text, and Maxthon (an IE derivative) sometimes just shifts the content left or right! I’m only at Opera 9.00; is 9.02 that different?

> ⌘ = doesn’t work at all

What is that character before the =? For me, it appears as a thick vertical bar in Opera and as a question mark in Firefox! The 10% zoom in and out shortcuts are just and - in Opera.

I have to agree with Matt. Zoom is not just for text. I sure hope that the HTML engine in Apollo will be Opera’s!

By: Flash Platform text resizing accessibility solutions mature at Aral Balkan

Flash Platform text resizing accessibility solutions mature at Aral Balkan — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:43:25 +0000

[…] At the same time, I noticed that the Flash Player doesn’t work correctly with the browser keyboard shortcuts for the Increase Text Size and Decrease Text Size commands in various browsers. I documented the problem and presented a workaround on Monday, in my post, Making Flash movies obey browser text size changes. […]

By: Bob Corporaal

Bob Corporaal — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:51:00 +0000

Just implemented your suggested workaround and it works fine as far as I could test it: updated text resizing

By: reefscape.net » Blog Archive » resizing text headaches

reefscape.net » Blog Archive » resizing text headaches — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:26:53 +0000

[…] Aral Balkan pointed out a workaround which lets Flash handle the text resizing in case it receives the keystrokes. The resizing is then done by switching between different stylesheets. This workaround is now implemented in a new version of the classes. […]