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aydelette - 30 Jun 2008 23:53 GMT

I run a couple of small SWFs on my home page that provide flashy navigation
options to news items and product pages within the site. The SWFs are not
applications. The SWF links don't move one back and forth within the SWFs; they
merely point one to various pages on the site.

No pages I link to from within a SWF are available via the browser back button
once I've used the SWF navigation a subsequent time.

I've read several elaborate fixes to swf/browser link handling issues but I'm
not clear whether they apply to this simple problem.

IS there a solution, in fact?

It seems like I want to make all html (actually php) pages accessed visible to
the browser however I arrived at them (whether through an html link or a swf
link). Can I do this?

Any answers will be read with great appreciation.

-A

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Mark60480 - 01 Jul 2008 05:42 GMT

I'm not sure I really understand the problem, but have you tried making the swf links absolute?

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aydelette - 01 Jul 2008 14:20 GMT

Thanks so much for answering (even to let me know I've been unclear). The
links are absolute. Here's the sequence:

1 On home page: link from SWF photo of product to product1 page
2 from product1 page to some detail info page
3 back button to product1 page
4 back button to home page
5 link to product2 page
6 back button to home page
7HERE back button will not find product1 in browser history. Browser doesn't
know I ever went to product1 page.

There are all sorts of fixes described elsewhere to handle backbutton use
within a Flash application - by which I THINK you mean between states within a
swf. I cannot tell if these apply to my situation or how they might be used to
help.

It may be there is no fix for my situation. I'm just trying to find that out.

THANKS!
A

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