On a recent project we came across an issue where user initiated popups get blocked in Safari when being called by an AS3 Flash app. The issue doesn’t happen in AS2 and I’d not come across it before, but when I did and I researched it I found it was a well documented issue with no solution. Most popup blockers are able to distinguish between a user initiated popup and an automatic one, and this is the case with all browsers with AS2 or all browsers except Safari with AS3. But what do you do if a popup is an…
Launching a site recently that uses Youtube embedded videos, I found the videos didn’t show in the Safari browser on my newly purchased iPhone. This was a shame because the rest of the site worked perfectly (well almost but I’ll get to that in another post), it was like a lil’ cute mini version of the site!