Problems- IE7 & Flash

Question

I know that IE7 has some issues, and thought they may have
been resolved.
Having this problem at
http://www.superzoo,org
These are comments from Windows user:
Can't click the attendee/exhibitor button until the movie
runs all the way through once.
It appears to only be the first time you load the page. I
just tried from
home computer which had not loaded the page and same problem
- would not let
me click on exhibitor or attendee button until well after the
dog and laptop
showing SZU. Once it let me click, it lets me click right
away next time I
load the page.
This problem is IE7 only.
Using GoLive for the site. Never have experienced this
problem before.

Answer 1

I can't see much in the code that is causing the problem -
there could be a variety of things that is causing the overwrite of
the button functions - without having the fla and your html file to
look at, I can only offer some suggestions...
First possibility is to build those two buttons into your
flash movie - probably the easiest solution as it would only
require adding some width to your swf file to accomodate, and
removing the buttons from your page. The "on/off" state graphics
are already built, so you would (in theory) import those in, and
assign the"rollover" and "get url" function to them.
It could also have something to do with the heirarchy of the
items on the page - try a google search of "z-index" for css and
you could try assigning styles to the items on the page based on
the instructions you'll recieve form many sites that offer the css
code to accomplish. Also try searching for references to "swf
transparent" - it may help but no promises...
One thing to note, my comments about the preferred program
for generating html pages isn't entirely biased (though I've tried
both and do prefer the interface of DW). It is a fact that Adobe
discontinued GoLive because it didn't do as efficient of a job
generating clean, cross-platform code - it couldn't compete with
Dreamweaver, so they bought their competition. The opinion I was
trying to convey was based on the technology behind the program,
not the "ease of use" aspect...
That said, your version of GoLive also predates IE7, and a
whole host of new browser updates, so much of the "code-generating"
technology built into it is outdated. You can also choose not to
believe it, but I took the time to check on my pc, and the page
doesn't function correctly in FireFox, Netscape or IE6 on my end.
It did work on my mac in Safari and the mac version of FireFox, but
there is still some inherent problems for the PC to read the code
correctly that goes beyond IE7.
Last note - asking for GoLive advice on a Dreamweaver forum
is like asking pizza hut how to make a pizza that tastes like papa
john's... not many people in here that are very knowlegable to
GoLive issues...