I'm using javscript for a menu which basically changes the jpg imgs at a mouseover. The idea occured to me the neet effect it would be if the second pic would be a flash pic instead of the jpg. This sounds simple, just rename the extensions in the javascript code and replace the jpg images with swf images.

Would this work? Doing this wouldn't require any link function in the flash image either, right, as the javascript uses the image region as the click area?

It seems like it would also act as a sort of preloader too, wouldn't it, as the swfs wouldn't need to load until after the rest of the page loaded. Would that loading sequence happen by default or would it need some code to tell the browser not to load swfs until loading the rest of the page? Their small files so it wouldn't be a huge difference.

Why mix js and flash? Wouldn't it be easier to build and load the entire menu as flash?

As a side note, I personally am not a big fan of flash nav since certain percentage of the site visitors don't have flash installed and they can't navigate the site unless you have a detection/redirect in place.

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Not necessarily, because I am "cheating" and using Xara menu builder. Only takes afew minutes to build a menu, or modify it. But it is all javascript

I agree, totally. I want to stay away from flash nav too. But my realization (if this will work) is that there might be a big difference between using flash as images, rather than the application. I mean if the application is javascript and it is merely opening an image as part of its mouseover subroutine, does it matter to the browser whether that image is a jpg, png, gif or SWF?

I guess the basic question would come down to whether a browser could handle a swf extension with a few animations in it if the user hadn't installed flash?

Perhaps I just need to replace the jpgs with animated gifs instead of flash to get the effect I am talking about.

If the user hasn't installed the Flash plug-in, the browser has no knowledge or understanding of Flash. What you are proposing simply would not work without the plug-in.

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Hey Fergus,

ok, good to know. Thanks