Does it really matter what size the stage is?

[chrisopia]

I'm creating a website in flash - as you do - and of course each page is a different length, and so hence will be the stage...

the only thing that really matters is what appears in the final HTML file, and it shows everything regardless of the stage size, obviously if I republish everything, flash would rewrite the HTML file to match the stage size...

am I missing something? or doesn't it matter what the stage size is?

[CyanBlue]

Well... Not everybody uses Flash generated HTML code to put SWF into the page... For others who don't, the size of the SWF matters... You can also make the size to be 100%/100% inside the HTML code where it matters what the stage size is in that case... ;)

[senocular]

There are situations where, based on HTML embed code, and scaling mode of SWF, that stage size isn't technically important, but you should still always target the most adequate size for your content in the case where its required that the scaling mode would need to change.

[chrisopia]

how otherwise would you display you flash file?

I used a flash generated HTML published file and it had all sorts of bugs when I displayed it, but when I used Dream weaver, and simply embedded the flash file it worked fine?

[CyanBlue]

Lots of people use SWFObject to do so...
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/