Fluidflash
Their is nothing wrong with a nice header graphic. Clients, designers and customers alike love them. But I often see them used as an excuse for fixed width designs. Well no more I say (unless, of course you have a perfectly good reason for a fixed width design in which case you dont really need this technique.)
The plan was simple. Find a way of incorporating flash headers into sites using liquid or elastic designs in much the same way you might use lots of sliding doors background-image goodness.
And all it takes is a snippet of actionscript goodness:
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale"
Stage.align = "TL"
var width
var height
function resizeEvent ( ) {
width = Stage.width
height = Stage.height
dimensions.text =
'width : ' + width+ '
height : ' + height
topRight._x = width
bottomLeft._y = height
bottomRight._y = height
bottomRight._x = width
}
resizeEvent ( )
var stageListener = new Object ( );
stageListener.onResize = resizeEvent
Stage.addListener ( stageListener );