random displacement of table!?

[me2222]

Hurray! I encountered another weird problem with IE5.0 on MAC and Flash.

Here´s the scenario:
I have a html table, nothing special, some rows, some columns. The table setup is correct!
In one of the cells I have a small SWF with the correct object/embed thing.
The html has also a tiled background image.

Now, sometimes, when I open the document with IE5 the hole table and it´s content gets displaced for about 15 Pixels vertical as horizontal.
This happens randomly! Sometimes the display is ok, sometimes not. Hitting "refresh" sometimes displaces the table, sometimes not!
Clearing the Browser cache most times causes a displacement at next opening of the document, but not allways!

What the heck is going on there?

On NN everything is ok, of course, and removing the SWF stops the random displacement in IE5.
Is there a known problem with SWFs in tables?

[mnm]

we've had similar problems, still no definate answer but i always make a mask in flash to mask off the stage so that there is nothing being rendered outside the stage when it is playing and i never seem to get the problem, but others here don't and there are a few of their swf's that cause the problem. Also IE has very poor memory management . There is a definate cause and effect but not having caused it myself i'm not sure what the effect is, tell us is that helps.

Also we tend to use netscape's preference to giving objects in cells a 6px border all around don't get problems with these cells either.

M
[Edited by mnm on 05-10-2001 at 05:38 AM]

[me2222]

Hi mnm, thanks for reply.

I tried a lot of things.
- your mask suggestion, didn´t work
- simplyfying the table, didn´t work
- splitting the table into three tables (table in a table), didn´t work
- assigning exact pixel values to the table and its cells, didn´t work

(didn´t try the 6px cell border thing, cause i needed cells without borders)

Well, I ended up putting the stuff into style sheet 'div' layers.
Looks like it is ok now.

Markus

[8minus8]

out of curiousity what html editor are you using (if any)?

on ie 5 swf's are usually given a cushion for pop up windows done in dreamweaver. i'm curious if it does it for tables as well.

[manutara]

Working with Dreamweaver 3 a ImageReady Sliced image of 10 columns an 10 rows. Then i replaced 2 images for flash movies(same size)…

Nothing strange happened.