Hello Everyone, I, too, amglad to know this list still exists, since I have a question. To identifymyself briefly, I’m a former member of the group, now retired, so I no longerwrite Cold Fusion code. My question concerns a research project that Ipresented to the group a few years ago, when members were asked to describetheir work regardless of its relevance to Cold Fusion. The project is about thespeech of a hearing child of deaf parents, and I’m hoping one of you withknowledge of HTML and Javascript can help me choose between two ways of presentingthe data.
I apologizefor the great detail of this post, but I can get to my question right awaybefore going into all that detail: Does anyoneknow how to make the URL disappear in a child HTML window? If not, then isthere some other simple way to get the effect I want? Apparentlythe standard way would have been to set location=no when specifying theparameters to the window.open command. But that doesn’t work, and I rememberreading somewhere that the W3C has decided to disable it. Is there some otherway to make the URL disappear? Or maybe an alternate way to get a child window?(I thought of having DIVs that are set display=block or display=none, butapparently the user would not be able to move them around on the screen (Nodoubt it could be done via buttons that reset their left and top properties,but that would not be simple to program, and I need the ability for multiplewindows to be open at the same time, which would make it even morecomplicated.) Admittedlythis has only to do with aesthetics, but I want it to be as pretty as possible! To see whatI have so far, please download the little folder at the Dropbox link below, andclick on “testvideotag.htm” to test it. (It works in chrome, firefox, opera,and safari, but not in internet explorer.) https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x8guh0m7ll5hrr8/AAAJkZjCRKMv7XSKrL2SGF7sa?dl=0 The otherapproach I’m investigating may not tap the expertise of most ACFUGparticipants, but I’ll present it in case anyone has a suggestion. It usesPDFs, and if you want to see what it looks like you could download the little PDFat this other Dropbox link and run it (“PDF Version.pdf”): https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ghu3l5fkfj2t7i/PDF%20Version.pdf?dl=0 The PDFversion doesn’t display the ugly URL, ofcourse, but my fear is that Adobe will disable my PDF solution some day – amatter I’ll probably have to check with Acrobat experts about, but in caseanyone has ideas about it please let me know. When Idescribe my PDF solution, you’ll see why I fear Adobe will disable it: I likemy interface the way it is: little icons that don’t take up screen space theway opening video inside the page would (there will be many hundreds of these!).And I like my audio icons the way I have them, too. If I attach MP3 (i.e. H264)audio to an icon via the sound tool (as in the leftmost ‘speaker’ icon in myPDF), it plays, but then the standard Acrobat audio interfaces jumps in andtakes over the icon – too small to be operative. If I attachthe audio it to a button-icon instead, then everything works perfectly (as inthe rightmost ‘speaker’ icon). But here’s what makes me think Abobe would someday pull the rug out from under me: with the sound tool, one is forced to useH.264 (a WAV file is legacy, and leads to the ‘Do you trust this?’ warning –painful when one must open hundreds of these little PDFs. And the legacy methodis now blocked over the internet anyway). But if Iattach sound to a button, only WAV files seem available as a choice.Remarkably, MP3s are not available for choosing even though they’re in the samefolder as the WAV file. So if WAV files are a security hole when using thesound tool (forcing one to use H/264 like MP3), why would they not be whenattached to a button? And if they are, then Adobe will discover the problem andfix it some day, thus disabling the many hundreds of PDFs I will have preparedby then! I shouldmention that I have Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, from which no upgrade path is available.To buy a new Acrobat Pro DC costs $449. Thanks somuch for any help you can provide!
