Cross-browser Flash development

[cliffdangler]

Hi all,

I am (and have) developed primarily for IE on Windows. But I am working on a large project that requires dynamic Flash content and I'd like to make the Flash areas as cross-browser friendly as possible.

I have had problems with Netscape where Flash calls an ASP page to retrieve a value. It just seems to freeze.

So my question is pretty general... Is there OS and browser specific code for Flash? How do you guys develop? Do you develop different Flash files for different browsers and then sniff for the browser that the user is running? I'd hate to do this because it gets complex when updating content.

Do you cater for all of these:
Windows IE + NS
Mac IE + NS

My general summary is that Flash seems pretty stable when simple, static content is involved. The problem comes in when complex and dynamic content is loaded into Flash.

Are there any guidelines that may help me? Please help and thanks.

[nucleuz]

I had some cross-browser issues when it came to loading in PHP on different platforms/browsers.
The solution was to set a special header:

application/x-www-urlformencoded

That worked for me

[SJT]

It ain't nothing to do with flash, except for very obscure (unsupported) commands in the flash player, such as writing to a text file on a pc, everything works fine.
The only difference you might come across is in the link in my footer...