I have uploaded a new website recently.

It is http://www.retna.com

Please click though to the broadband flash 6 site.

The site functions as expected in IE and Safari on a Mac. In Netscape (7.1 and
7.2, OSX10.3.5) the transtions between images do not always complete. The site
loads a new image and then reveals this by masking the image above. The mask
takes the form of several circles that are placed over the image below using a
grid and are then made bigger to mask more of the image and reveal the image
below. In Netscape on the Mac this does not always occur.

Can any mac users please check it at their end and confirm the site appears
different in the two browsers. Can anyone offer advice on why this might be the
case.

Many thanks
Mike

Hi,

I tested your site on a G4 400MHz (so not very up to date). As you
described - in Netscape I don't see the transitions all the time. In IE
the transitions are always shown but in fact they tend to be a bit slow.
So the problem may be different handling of complex (see below) movies,
i.e. movies that should run faster than the computer can provide. The
plugin in IE shows all pictures, slowing the movie down. In Netscape it
keeps the speed (12 fps?) and drops frames. Well, just a guess.

When I downsize the window everything runs smooth in Netscape and IE.
How big is your movie originally created? Have you tried to embed it in
original size (no percentual scaling) to see if your roblem occurs also?

All in all it seems to me that your movie has some needs for speed of
the computer (this is felt much stronger on the Mac for unfortunately
macromedia has strongly optimized the products for windows. This is even
more sad, for all of these problems are questions of graphical
processing and the mac graphical engine is surely not inferior...)

By the way: It's always the case that scaling movies UP slows them down.


hope this heps a bit!

greetigs from munich

oe




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