Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-05 Thread Rory Browne
On 6/4/05, Ryan A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, .swf files are not cached by the browsers? Seems they are, so you don't need to care about frames. Simply output the html needed to load the flash file each time, the flash will be downloaded only once. .. Yep, but the

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-05 Thread Ryan A
/* Personally I reckon: a) you should simplify that flash banner quite a bit. It keeps animating for a long time(forever?). You're drawing the readers attention away from the site, and to a flash banner. I think for subsequent pages, there should be no animation(at all), and for the initial page

[PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Ryan A
Hey, The end of the world is at hand how do I know this? coz my mom wants her own site! My mom; the person who hated computers coz those 'things' are too damn complicated! Anyway, thought I'll do it for her to kind of repay a bit of carrying me for whole 9 months, and tough delivery etc

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Ryan A wrote: I had a real good flash header which she too liked, so I modified the header and she really liked it, problem is, its around 230kb to load, so I thought I'll put it in a frame (top frame - header, bottom frame- content and forum) so the flash part won't reload on each page

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Ryan A
On 6/4/2005 5:30:14 PM, Marek Kilimajer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ryan A wrote: I had a real good flash header which she too liked, so I modified the header and she really liked it, problem is, its around 230kb to load, so I thought I'll put it in a frame (top frame - header,

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Ryan A wrote: On 6/4/2005 5:30:14 PM, Marek Kilimajer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ryan A wrote: I had a real good flash header which she too liked, so I modified the header and she really liked it, problem is, its around 230kb to load, so I thought I'll put it in a frame (top frame -

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Ryan A
Hey, .swf files are not cached by the browsers? Seems they are, so you don't need to care about frames. Simply output the html needed to load the flash file each time, the flash will be downloaded only once. .. Yep, but the animation and the intro music will play each time...which I

RE: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Murray @ PlanetThoughtful
Since its a forum and she is not doing any advertising its important the search engines index the site properly or shes going to have a big forum with no visitors. Then I read that the search engines dont like frames muchso I was thinking of using iframes and then I read about the evils

RE: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Ryan A
Hey, Thanks for replying. Since its a forum and she is not doing any advertising its important the search engines index the site properly or shes going to have a big forum with no visitors. Then I read that the search engines dont like frames muchso I was thinking of using iframes and

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Cain
perhaps you can change the swf to non-play state with a JavaScript on all of the pages other than the first one. in the swf OBJECT tag have the following id tag: id=test1 in the EMBED tag have the following name tag: NAME=test1 in the body of all pages other than the first BODY

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread JamesBenson
You could write a script which uses a cookie to remember which users have seen the animation or not, I personally wouldnt use frames but thats just my opinion. Ryan A wrote: On 6/4/2005 5:30:14 PM, Marek Kilimajer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Ryan A wrote: I had a real good flash header

Re: [PHP] Frames or iframes? (Basically The devil or deap sea or A rock and a hard place etc) - - - - (0T)

2005-06-04 Thread Marek Kilimajer
Ryan A wrote: Hey, Thanks for replying. Since its a forum and she is not doing any advertising its important the search engines index the site properly or shes going to have a big forum with no visitors. Then I read that the search engines dont like frames muchso I was thinking of