Fill yer boots.
Stop making Flash scrollbars!
version 2 - updated 5th July 2006
This prototype demonstrates how to dynamically resize your Flash movie on an HTML page. The basic premise is that you can now resize your flash movie dynamically in relation to how much content you have to view. This means you can display a full text article and allow the user to scroll with the browser’s own scroll bar instead of some fiddly proprietary nonsense that you’ve rolled on your own.
It was first presented at the Spark Europe conference in Amsterdam on Thursday 17th November 2005.
The current version uses the wonderful swfObject by Geoff Stearns to deploy the Flash movie. This really simplifies things, removing the need to use different id and name attributes for the swf as was previously the case.
Copyright law states that I own at least some of the intellectual property on this work by default, as is the case of any creative work. I disagree with this on several counts, not least because I am standing on the shoulders of giants with this, but also because I love the idea of someone out there taking this and improving it.
This is why I'm releasing this under a Creative Commons license which you can view here. This license effectively grants everyone full permission to do whatever they want with the work.
It should be noted that swfObject is released under the MIT License, which has pretty much the same lack of restrictions on what you can do with it. Please visit Geoff’s site for the latest version of swfObject.
Click here to view the Flash resizer prototype demo in action.
Click here to download version 2 of the Flash resizer prototype demo.