MySpace Flash Workaround Hack
Last year MySpace was attacked by a flash based worm which caused MySpace to disable links from flash including getURL by appending the following properties to your object tag:
Yeah now that sucks. You say: "What do I do now? My cool flash widget I've spent so much time working on doesn't work properly in MySpace! Ahhh!!"
Enter the Hack
Now this isn't pretty and I don't like having to do this at all, but it works. The solution is to add a relatively positioned div that hovers on top of your flash with a transparent gif thats linked to the page you originally wanted to link to from your flash.
Example Code
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<embed src="http://www.yourflashmovie.com/file.swf" width="221" height="334" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>
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<div style="width: 90px; position: relative; top: -38px; left: 65px;">
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</div>
Just set the size of the GIF to the size of the region you want to be linkable and position the div correctly over that region and voila...you have a MySpace flash workaround hack.
I've tested this in Firefox 2 and IE 7. Anyone care to test this in Safari 2?
My name is Noah Everett. I live in Tulsa, OK. I started 
