AS3 AOL Browser

I have a client that is using the AOL Browser -- wow, right
Anyway, has anyone ever tested a AS3 preloader in the AOL Browser?
It doesnt seem to read bytesTotal or totalFrames -- which is how i can determine if it is loaded
the Function - ifFrameLoaded(scene,frame) is no longer an option in AS3
Thank you in Advance for any suggestions--cant seem to find any documentation through google
Reno

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Older versions of AOL rerenders images as .art files in an
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If we could see the page we could probably help. The URL you
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As expected. Sloppy page code:
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Major issue is that the embed tag is "dead" and has been for more than 4 years. It still "works" in many browsers but it will never work for any Internet Explorer version over 5 on a PC and may even cause issues with Mac browsers.
Newer methods exist that fix the out of date "embed" tag code:
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Better methods now use only javascript to write the page code:
http://developer.apple.com/internet/ieembedprep.html
Either method would require you to "hand edit" your index.html file using a text editor. Not hard to do (just copy/paste) but maybe too much bother for an AOL Homepage Site.
You can probably play your file in any browser by clicking on this link:
http://members.aol.com/vesta1967/godonlyknows.mid
If it works (and I'm sure it does) it proves that QuickTime Player and its browser plug-in is not at fault.
So now you know why it doesn't work as intended.
I'm glad you stuck it out in trying to get an answer. You may have been correct to admonish some of our Discussions pages repliers to your basic question because the real issue got so off track and they didn't really "help".
We are all just end users just like you. None of us get anything for posting answers and we sometimes fail to see a question beyond the words used by the original poster.
Time to make up.
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Thanks Pat.
I never had to deal with this issue before, so I am not sure if AOL uses the Player's Activex or Plugin. I actually think that their Player works in collaboration with the one in IE. It looks to me that after I updated to Windows 8.1, the AOL software didn't change any thing to keep up with it..
I did do a manual download, though, after that site in AOL told me I had to. Then I found out I wouldn't have had to, because it seems that IE 11 comes with the proper player version already installed. But the download I did was for Windows 8, I could not find one for Windows 8.1 anywhere, Could you tell me where to find one?
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I've learned it's best to do as much research as you can
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