On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Christian Montoya wrote:
But when I'm designing XHTML for N+1 CSS files made by different
designers, and some who want to add video and/or flash in addition to
their images+CSS, I can't think of how to implement it, other than to
give the designers the ability to put custom Javascript files up and
auto-include them as well.
Your users want to add custom flash and videos? Then stand up to them and
say no. If you want to teach CSS, flash and videos are not relevant. If they
want to learn about implementing flash and videos, they can go look up the
appropriate references for that.
Flash is sexy. If I want pure CSS + XHTML (ala CSS Zen Garden) I can't
have sexy. I can have sensual, but not sexy. No multimedia for you!
From what I've gathered from responses, CSS + XHTML makes embedding flash
and video impossible without "hard-coding" it into the XHTML or including
it as a JavaScript functionality.
Probably the most ideal solution for now is:
Each user can upload their CSS + JS file(s), all of which are included
dynamically upon display of the XHTML (which does NOT include flash or
video) via PHP. It is up to them to find the way to implement video
(Flash will be done with UFO [Unobtrusive Flash Objects] from Bobby
VanderSluis).
Until Flash, video and other multimedia objects can be included via CSS
without fancy JS hacks, including multimedia other than images as part of
the "look and feel" of a page is not pheasable using only XHTML + CSS.
That pretty accurate? Thanks to all who replied.
Beckman
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