Re: AJAX & back button
Richard Cooper wrote: > My question is what is the best way to cope with using back button and > bookmarks. Putting an "undo" button in your interface helps people avoid wondering "If I hit the browser's back button will I still go back to the previous HTML page?" jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:270610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Detect Acrobat Reader Installation
Walter Conti wrote: > [Does anyone know of a way that my server can tell what version > of Adobe Reader my site visitors have installed, before I serve > even a single page to them?] For what it's worth, I don't know of a way to do this. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269078 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Detect Acrobat Reader Installation
Walter Conti wrote: > Is it possible? Are you asking whether you can detect whether someone else's computer has Adobe Reader installed (and optionally, which version)? If so, then are you planning on detecting this from within JavaScript, from within a PDF, from your server before any files are served, or something else...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:269032 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Flash Player 8+ requirement for an App
OÃuz Demirkapı wrote: > If you have an application which requires Flash 8+ to run but your > client`s clients could not update their Flash player because of lack of > knowledge or without having required rights. > Or if you have a Flex2 application which requires Flash Player 9+ with > same situation. > What would you suggest to your client? For "How can I get Adobe Flash Player deployed to an intranet?" then there's an intranet kit available: http://www.adobe.com/licensing/distribution/ For "Is the general public able to upgrade their Players?" then yes, they are, at the rate of well over five million a day, making it the most rapidly-adopted software in history. http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html For "How can I persuade my client that it's okay to specify Adobe Flash Player 9?" then the most effective technique seems to be to work to first discover what their actual objections are. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:263616 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re:
Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote: > Lol +1 > > > > > > > > "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, > Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, > Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is > confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the > intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note > that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the > information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have > received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call > our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this > communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -Original Message- > From: Claude Schneegans > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Sat Oct 28 15:12:11 2006 > Subject: Re: > >>you really shouldn't use flashforms like html forms. > > You shouldn't use flashforms at all. > Users hate flashforms. > > > > ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258463 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Using PDF's...
Rick Faircloth wrote: > Just curious if today's browsers, especially IE, > have built-in support for reading PDF's. I mean > they are able to open them and print them without > having Acrobat Reader installed. Microsoft Internet Explorer uses system-level ActiveX Controls as an extension mechanism, and these will auto-install if a sufficient version of the Control is not already installed on that system. So, the free Adobe Reader, in its ActiveX wrapper, will automatically download if not yet on the system, and a little permissions dialog will appear. Easy-peasy. Other browsers use Netscape Plugins, and so there's a page-redirect before installation. Apple's Safari browser uses the Apple system-level PDF renderer, Apple Preview. This can handle simple PDF documents, but can show font/display issues with basic files, and does not support the collaborative features of Adobe Acrobat. Practically speaking, people see so many PDF files through the life of a computer that it's a rare system which cannot already render garden-variety PDF. (PDFs are indeed much friendlier and more universal than DOCs... the latter require money to render, for one. ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:258060 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: WiFi available at MAX?
Ryan Stille wrote: > Anyone know if WiFi will be available at the Adobe MAX conference? I don't have definitive info yet from someone saying that they signed the contract and where it will be, but yes, it's hard for me to see the prior precedent being broken... gotta be there. At the Venetian it has sometimes been available in just the hallways, but they might have the repeaters in the presentation rooms themselves. Watch out for peak load times, such as just before a session... might be easier to get through peak times through another repeater outside of a hall. Hotels are another matter, and I haven't heard word on the arrangement here yet. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:257502 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: video hosting?
Ray Champagne wrote: > We have a client who is asking us our advice for hosting of a site that will > be streaming a lot of video. Basically, the site is going to host virtual > tours for Real Estate. His requirements are that the host has enough > bandwidth to handle a lot of video requests, and have a large pipe so that > the video streams out as fast as possible. I never deal with video, so I'm > hoping someone out here might have some relevant experience. If you're seeking a service, then here are some known ones: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/fvss/ For the content itself, many guides and tips are here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/video.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:256949 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: FlashPaper vs PDF
RichL wrote: > I've got to provide a downloadable and printable form to fill in. > I am wondering which route to go down between flashpaper and pdf. > Is there any generally accepted preference about at the moment? Macromedia FlashPaper was a printer driver which could turn documents (including PDF) to SWF. The document would display in a Macromedia shell SWF with viewing chrome. I haven't heard of any news with FlashPaper since the Adobe acquisition. For forms, though, Adobe Reader is much stronger. FlashPaper treats something as a document, but Acrobat offers significant forms technology. One wrinkle here is that Adobe Reader 8.0, announced last week and in public release this autumn, can archive filled forms to local storage. Previous versions of Reader could let you fill and submit forms for remote storage, but the 8.0 client adds local archiving. > Are there any known stats for percent users with Adobe Reader vs > MacrAdobe Flash installed ? Adobe Flash Player is by far the world's most widely-deployed software... the new Flash Player 9 is looking to have been adopted by about 50% of internet consumers within three months of its release, which is almost an incomprehensible rate of adoption. http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=498 While Macromedia commissioned NPD consumer audits and did version-tracking, Adobe did not, and so we don't have good version-to-version stats for Adobe Reader yet. Reader and Acrobat have had a bit more corporate acceptance than Player has had, though... both are de facto standards in the world today. Casey Dougall wrote: > Omniture Reported Internet Averages... Do you have a link to source info here? I'd like to check their methodology, see what they were actually testing, thanks. Brad Wood wrote: > The size of the PDF viewer plugin has bothered me in the past. To > me a viewer should be lightweight and simple. That's true. But Adobe Reader is actually more of a collaboration client than it is a simple document viewer. Here's the 7.0 Reader FAQ and feature list: http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrfaq.html http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html Here's info on how the free Reader compares with the full Acrobat software for document creation: http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:255514 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: Flex 2 - painfully slow...
D F wrote: > So I'm investigating Flex 2 and its painfully slow. Didn't seem to bad at > first but gradually got worse and worse. Has anyone else been experiencing > this? Like others pointed out, in order to turn the above into something answerable, you'd have to replace "Flex" with something more specific. Assuming it's the Eclipse-based FlexBuilder environment, there are definitely tips for speedup. One of your later messages noted that you only had 512 (megabytes) RAM and were running other applications... that's a clear candidate for quick testing before posting; just restart and see if a fresh Eclipse start differs at all, then consider RAM for Java. But if that's not the key on that distant machine, the search term "flexbuilder slow" pulls up a number of performance optimizations for Eclipse. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251786 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: OT: Flash or Ajax to Compliment CF Project
Dakota Burns wrote: > I have a fairly large CF project coming up with an interactive piece that > will involve changing colors on car parts (roll mouse over hood for design > or color, select & post to database or session), possibly an audio greeting > - that sort of thing. The audio requirement may resolve the question in itself, although for some presentations it may not matter exactly how each browser invokes the audio file. A more subtle advantage may be in the on-demand coloring... it's possible to use the realtime color matrix filtering in Adobe Flash Player 8 and above to change the coloring of an image without having to download a new file. Docs & example: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/8/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=2079.html http://page.freett.com/isolations_nest/upload/test20.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:249890 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: coldfusion scam site
Michael Dinowitz wrote: > Does anyone know who owns coldfusionjobs.com? It's a scam site that only > shows advertising and actually is showing ads in a way that is in total > violation of the Google terms of service. I can't block my ads from showing > on it due to the way that they've hijacked the ads so I want to contact them > directly to have my content removed. I don't know who owns it, but I've seen many many similar sites recently, across various searchterm-type topics. Whether it's an ad scam, a pagerank scam or some other type of scam, this page fits the profile of a very large number of similar pages right now. I still check Technorati and blogsearch.google.com daily with terms like "adobe (software OR format)", but the vast majority of results are sites like this. More on this subject: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22google+must+shape+up%22 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:249493 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: SOT: Flash 9 install?
Rick Root wrote: > Thanks JD... actually he didn't have a problem with Mozilla, it was IE > that he couldn't do the install on.. the automated install that is. I > also had several others in the office using IE say they just got a > "Connecting..." dialog within flash and it never did anything. They all > had to go to the adobe web site to do the install, and that worked fine. Hmm, if it's only IE/Win, and only through one intranet's servers, and only if it's the usual ActiveX background install rather than visiting the site directly, then it may be that the intranet's systems are set to avoid ActiveX auto-install -- some facilities do this to avoid people inadvertently installing spyware on their machine. I don't know details of how people have done this (whether it's been configured on each system, or just at the server), but I do know that some intranets block all ActiveX auto-installs. Possible there...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248082 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: SOT: Flash 9 install?
Rick Root wrote: > I'm starting to do some flex development, and I've found that Flash > Player 9 doesn't install automatically on people's machines around > here... even my boss, who is administrator on his own machine... > Essentially, it comes up and says "connecting" for no apparent reason > and just never does anything. There could be multiple ways to prevent installation. The procedure for installation depends on the computer OS, the browser, the existence of any third-party software, the configuration and settings, and how the installation request is being triggered. That's why it's hard to pinpoint what's different there, just from knowing that something isn't installing normally. Statistically, one of the most common causes of "it dont work" these days is when IE/Win is used, and the normal background ActiveX update process is triggered, and the existing Control has not yet been unregistered from the system. A system restart will allow those Windows machines to unregister the old control and register the new, producing the expected results on the Player test page: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ For fastest identification of the actual difference there, the "troubleshooting" section of the Player Support docs is still the most efficient way to isolate the cause: http://www.adobe.com/go/15511 jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248062 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Translation webservice?
Adrian Moreno wrote: > Years ago, Babelfish had a webservice where you could send in text and get it > back translated. Sometime in 2004 it was shut down. > Is there anything like that around now? Preferably free? I'm not sure what formats you're seeking for the delivered files, but Yahoo is offering some outputs from their use of the Babelfish service: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/free_trans_service I don't know your translation needs, but Paul pointed out how machine translation, while useful as an emergency hack to get an idea of the meaning, is often lacking for other needs. If your site has few pages of content which may need to be translated into an arbitrary number of languages, then a wiki approach may be useful, where your English text links to any human translations which may have been made by others. The localized Wikipedia sites contain some examples of using humans to create native text. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:247928 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: OT: Adobe labs slow to load?
Bryan Stevenson wrote: > FYI I am pretty sure it's the stupid feedback widget that is causing the slow > downwhen it moves my CPU spikes...I've seen it before. They should just > have a static image and ditch the Flash on that one a) That's not SWF. b) Folks on web team don't read CF-Talk. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:247207 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: OT: Adobe labs slow to load?
j s wrote: > Why is Adobe's (labs) site so slow to load; is it the leased T1 at work or > the cable modem at home? Is it me or do other people experience the same? > If so, shouldn't a company with such technology deliver a site that's more > responsive? If you're seeing problems on the site, please report them directly to the team on the little "feedback" widget which is still on each page. For "site slow" posts, useful basic info includes a) which pages b) how long each c) browser brand/version/OS; OS info & configuration d) traceroute, IP info e) some-or-all session info That would give folks a chance to discover how your experience differs from the norm. (I've seen enough "site slow" posts to suspect there's something there, but almost all such posts have lacked enough data for me to generate hypotheses, which is why using the feedback widget on the site is a surer route.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:247200 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: OT: How do "Phishermen" send an email from a legitimate domain?
Rick Faircloth wrote: > How can a phishing email be sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? How can > the PayPal.com domain be used if their email servers are set up correctly? If you're looking at the "FROM:" field in your emailer's UI, then anyone can write anything there, agreed. But most of the phishing scams I've seen have been revealed by looking at the first (bottom-most) "RECEIVED:" field in the message headers. This shows the actual domain from which the message was sent. (How can you see email headers? It varies with the emailer you use, and whether you accept HTML-formatted email or display everything as ASCII. Examples of reading headers are at http://www.stopspam.org/email/headers.html .) If you find that the spam actually lists your own domain in there, then that usually implies a security breach at your end. But most of these cases are just a message from evilGreedy.org with a FROM: field listing a good person's name and domain. Emailers have been created with certain problems like this... the acceptance of tons of quoted sigs in an outbound message is another such design flaw in email software. It'd be easy for email software to compare the originating domain with the professed domain jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:245588 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Dreamweaver
Steve LaBadie wrote of installing some version of Dreamweaver atop a reinstalled operating system of some sort, and not being able to use File Transfer Protocol. Here's an efficient path to troubleshooting FTP problems in Dreamweaver: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14834 jd ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:244912 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Hype 2.0
Ken Ferguson wrote: > So, in regards to the back button I've been thinking that a really > quality, well-done web2-type application would be one where your back > button wouldn't work, but one where you'd also not ever think of using > it. I mean, the application should flow such that the back button > doesn't really mean anything. Checking: The document browser's 'Back' button should still take you back to the previous document, right? For handling application state, something like an accordion control is useful... there's really no "undo" (or "back") because everything remains inspectable, editable, reversible. (For other types of application interfaces, a History structure or "Undo" button might make sense.) Brendan Baldwin wrote, in part: > IMHO Flex is not about pushing that vision at all. Flex is just Macromedia > trying to leverage ColdFusion to promote the adoption of Flash as an > application platform, essentially reducing the "webbiness" of the web by > closing the standards discussion for web resources as usable, mungible > things. "mungible"... I like that one... "webbiness of the web" comes close, though ;-) It would go uselessly off-topic to counter each assertion. ColdFusion successfully showed how to efficiently handle server-side processing. Flex handles the presentation layer, with similar efficiencies. (You could view PHP-coding vs CF as JS-coding vs Flex, if you'd like.) Interfaces need to be less hardwired, more approachable... I hope everyone could agree on this part...? The JavaScript-supremacist crowd will have to develop against, maintain against, and support each of the various branded renderers out there (the "MSIE" brand, the "FF/Win" brand, the "FF/Mac" brand and so on). The features they offer will be bound by the intersection of what their audience's browsers will support. This is slow progress. The Adobe Flash Player is *part* of all these browsers, by taking advantage of the browsers' established extension mechanisms. Because it's a single engine you'll see new features faster; because it's an inclusive engine you'll see wider audience faster. Webwork is indeed moving on, I agree with you there. I don't think that evolution is only in serverside technology, however... I think it's more about making servers and clients work together more smoothly, with greater expressive abilities, and in more environments. The revolution will not occur *only* on the server, imho. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240600 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: IE ActiveX Patch
Rob Wilkerson wrote: > I keep hearing about this IE Update that prevents ActiveX content from > displaying without user interaction. I don't have this update yet. > Has it been released? If so, what is the KB number? Source info, FAQs, examples, handlings, test pages, more: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ (I haven't seen any guidance on changes to the HTML ColdFusion's Flash forms use. If you install the IE update yourself, or watch the presentation at the Active Content Center, you'll see that the actual user experience is only minimally disrupted.) jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238432 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: BEA licenses BlueDragon for WebLogic
Rastafari wrote: > what does this have to do with coldfusion? I was wondering what it had to do with Nick Tong's post "Re: Can't Get Network Datasources working in CF 5"... Vince set up the PR as a reply to a message in another thread, instead of using that "New Message" button in his emailer. > To: CF-Talk > Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:29:37 -0400 > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237952 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly
Jason Rogoz wrote: > Are they any plugings available that would allow one to upload a windows > media file and convert it to a flash video file? The Macromedia Flash authoring tool can do this conversion, with most (if not all) of the codecs currently available in the Windows Media Player. But from the rest of the conversation I'm wondering if you're looking for a serverside translation, unattended by human eyes? If so, that can get a little tricky, because the most desirable compression rates and frame rates are best performed from raw source file rather than arbitrary files which have already been compressed -- it's possible to get good results, but not guaranteed, depending on what type of content and initial .WMV compression settings were chosen. is the core problem here something like "How can I let any visitor upload any .WMV file from their local machine to my server, so that I can automatically re-deliver it to the widest range of audience menmbers in Flash Video format?" Or is the situation from the audience's viewpoint just a little bit different from that...? jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230279 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Free Installation Support - Where?
Peterson, Andrew S. wrote: > I'm having trouble locating the link to the free installation support > given by Macromedia. Does anyone have a link or an email address? > Thanks. Via http://www.macromedia.com/support: http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/complimentary/main.cgi (That's a forms-based email interface, because of the damage done to raw email addresses over the years. In a formal support contact they'll need to first check the results of the normal troubleshooting/diagnostics test, so running through the installation technotes first will save you time overall. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222753 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Inline frames a good alternative for creating web applications?
Rick Faircloth wrote: > I've used them a little, but not a lot, so I'd like some feedback on > what the drawbacks are to building apps using inline frames... In all the AJaX discussion I've seen a lot of "i did that years ago with frames", but I don't recall anyone coming back with reasons how the MS XmlHttpRequest is better. Refresh the hidden frame, then use JavaScript to pass the data to the main display... seems to work just as well, from what I've seen, and browser support is a little better (older Moz, etc). There are examples online, but I haven't tested which search terms give the most useful hits. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222473 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Question: How Much of an Interest is there in AJAX?
Summary: OBJECT, EMBED, and various spec-validators have a strange history. Tim Blair wrote: > To make sure that all browsers can see Flash you have to use > non-standard HTML. Either that or if you really really want your HTML > to validate, you can use messy JavaScript to inject the HTML. If you're referring to the EMBED tag, it's actually the standard that's non-standard here. When the W3C rewrote this section in HTML 4.0 they didn't provide any guidance for how the existing world (which had been using EMBED, and then accommodating Microsoft's OBJECT) might migrate to the new world order of happily-validating documents. If anything, the recommendation against the existing EMBED in HTML 4.0 should be an argument against a committee-centric approach, not against browser extensions. It's a galling argument, "Don't use Flash because the markup won't validate." The Macromedia Flash Player doesn't care how it's invoked... the OBJECT and EMBED tags are parsed by the browser, not the Player, and those are the terms they used before the committee ever sat down. It's particularly galling for me because in the late 90s I was active on the mailing lists and kept asking all the web-standards evangelists "Hey, what will you do about the browsers that currently and happily use EMBED? seize them? repossess them? what?" and in retrospect I should have been even more of a curmudgeon on this because they punted on the issue, and seven years later it's getting reworked around into this strange formulation. Summary: The validators didn't validate to reality. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222147 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: Question: How Much of an Interest is there in AJAX?
Joe Rinehart wrote: > I think a _great_ idea would be to publish different ways of producing > the same rich application, along with the pros and cons of each: > AJAX, Flex, that open-souce Flex alternative whose name I have just > forgotten, Java applets, etc. True, but the danger here is that such a study would not include things that some technologies cannot do... such studies are often flawed by assuming the perspective of the weakest link. (How does a JavaScript site auto-update its audience members with older browsers, for instance? When delivering as SWF we frequently handle older audience members gracefully, but many sites billed as "AJaX" still lack even a "here's the browsers we tested" page. Then there's audio, video, and other media types beyond XML) Me, I'd like to see development and audience costs when comparing projects... might help equalize the asymmetrical feature sets. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222053 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: Question: How Much of an Interest is there in AJAX?
Judith Dinowitz wrote: > How large an audience is there for material (books, articles) > on Web 2.0 and AJAX? That's hard for me to answer, because people seem to mean different things when using the terms "Web 2.0" and "AJaX". (Does Google Maps actually use XmlHttpRequest? If so, is that a core part of the image-scrolling that the audience seems to focus on most?) I'd feel clearer if we all agreed on whether there were ways to tell "whether something 'is' Web 2.0 or not" or "whether something 'is' AJaX or not". So far I haven't found agreement on functional definitions of these, well, marketing labels. But "advanced JavaScript" and "servers which learn from their audience" seem to be good topics for articles and books, because these trends are accelerating, true? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222052 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: MXNA down?
Up now, happy again. ;-) jd ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:221743 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Security question...
Matt Robertson wrote: > Finally to my question: How can I make this process more secure? > Don't do it at all? I got to this part of the post, then realized I'd have to go back, and try to turn the description into something that I could plug into the word "this" in the proffered question, then confirm that my synthesized question was the actual question. Maybe it's "How can I make sure that someone visits a particular page only from another particular page, and not by direct linkage?" If so, then the document.referrer type can help. But I'm not certain I pulled the correct operational question from the description? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:221740 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: MXNA down?
Ryan Guill wrote: > Is MXNA down for anyone else? Yes, server crash, just as Mike & Christian boarded the afternoon plane from Anaheim to SF. When they deboard we're trying some remote fixups. With luck we'll be back in an hour, but without luck it may take a few hours. Request: If you've got a weblog, can you help spread the word? I'm voiceless because I'm hosted on the same server. Thanks! jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:221732 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: Disabling Flash Links
Jim McAtee wrote: > Is > there any way to place a Flash movie on a web page and replace or disable > all embedded links, so that we can force the link to go through our > click.cfm script and record the click-through? It might be easier to talk with the client, have them grab their button's links from parameters in the HTML you supply. (If you check the markup of banner ads then the target URL is usually either in PARAMs or as query terms to the calling URL, both of which can be accessed by the SWF.) One way to actually break clicks in any SWF is to put something atop it, but then you get into browser differences... which browsers will draw their markup instructions atop plugin content, which ones let clicks go through, and so on. Another tack to break the SWF's created functionality is to host it within your own SWF, which has something atop that. But the original creator might have broken your plan to break his plan, there's always something wacky possible with so many potential authors. Easiest might be to tell the client that this SWF they're creating for use on your site should have its URLs specified in the calling markup, rather than locked into the SWF. That might take some negotiation, though. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:220626 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Where can I download DWMX04?
Claremont, Timothy wrote: > I own dreamweaver MX2004, and have the sleeve with the serial number, > but have misplaced the disk. When I search to download it, all I can > find is the new version, not the old one. I can't find the old version > on the Macromedia site, just patches and updates for it. Can someone > provide me with a link to download the older version? If you registered your purchase, then contact Macromedia Customer Service -- they'll be able to get the material to you best. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:219969 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: DESPERATE!!! Any way to embed SWF within CFDOCUMENT (PREVIOUSLY CFDOCUMENT ERROR)
Andy McShane wrote: > Thanks Kevin, I like the idea of the swf to pdf converter, do you know of > such a tool? I think I may also have to have a closer at flirt also. I am > afraid that your first suggestion does not really mean anything to me, how > would you print out the flash to file to postscript? I read the thread, but my understanding of the problem changed a few times. Recent versions of Adobe Reader can embed and display SWF files. A SWF file can be referenced in any HTML page. SWF itself can print a screen or alternative display. Are any of these topics of interest to you...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:216242 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: PDF to PDF Comparison
Brian Polackoff wrote: > Is there any way to compare to PDF's and determine their difference as far > as content goes? Any ideas would be appreciated. I'm assuming that you need to do this during development on your workstation, rather than during delivery on your server... is this assumption correct? If so, then the full version of Adobe Acrobat offers a "Compare Pages" command... here's a description from the docs: "The Compare Pages command in Acrobat compares every page in two documents, looking at PDF information that describes the pages precisely to find even the most subtle differences between pages. You can use Compare Pages to identify both content changes between documents and changes that may not be visible." http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/cib/acrobat5/acrobat5_cib_lesson5.pdf (page 128) This diagnostic tool isn't in the free Adobe Reader plugin for browsers, but is in the Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional document development package: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro/main.html http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/acro7_matrix.pdf Is this what you're looking for? or...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:213630 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Need help with XML to JavaScript
Mark Warrick wrote: > I want to provide data from my database to other websites in > the form of simple cut and paste JavaScript code which other > webmasters can include in their plain HTML websites. Well, the way commonly used in browsers now to request remote XML data without a page-refresh is called "XmlHttpRequest()"... it's the "X" in "AJaX". But if you're providing this for the sites of others then you may need to check whether their audiences' browsers are pre-qualified for this feature. After that it might be a little tricky to tell any HTML/JS page designer how to integrate your code with theirs. If you'd like to provide data in XML from your server, and have that displayed within the HTML pages of varied sites, then it seems like it might be easier for most content developers to just specify a SWF than to integrate their JavaScript and markup with yours. If you'd prefer JavaScript, then do you have an idea of what types of support costs would be acceptable for the job...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:212882 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: WMode Flash and HTML Forms
Mark Leder wrote: > I have an XML flash horizontal drop down menu with a param wmode= > transparent so that the drop downs cover over some of the content (like a > dhtml menu). This works fine. Problem is, if I have a page with an html > form that the menu overlays, I can see the html form fields, but I can't > click and add/edit data in the fields. I've tried wraping the and > the flash movie with z-index layers with no luck. This happens with both IE > and FF. Ideas? Browser rules apply. Many browsers now offer an offscreen compositing option, triggered by the WMODE attribute in the OBJECT & EMBED tags for a plugin. The plugin doesn't much care whether the display goes directly to screen, or to the browser's offscreen drawing buffer before hitting the screen... that WMODE lets the plugin know where to pipe its pixels, but (from all I've seen) doesn't affect what the plugin itself does. I haven't checked whether the various browsers send a mouseclick to the elements it drew from markup, or to that magic rectangle it received from a plugin and merged with its own content. The browser makers tend not to document combinations of features like this. (I wish they did, but they don't.) What you tested sounds plausible to me, but the above general context is all I have on how this drawing is done, sorry. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:212246 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Free flash media player
Rob wrote: > Is there a flash ... uh... movie that can play ... well ... movies > (quicktime or whatever)? Dave had the info. The Macromedia Flash Player 7 contains a single video codec, Sorenson Sparc, and can directly render SWF, FLV, MP3, JPG, and maybe a few other media formats. Playing a video encoded in one of the QuickTime formats depends on which codecs and settings were used during compression. Some of the older QT codecs are probably emulated by Real or WMP now, and some of the newer codecs require a newer QT installation on the viewing machine. Generally speaking, to play the range of QuickTime content, you'd need the current QuickTime client on the viewing machine. Same goes for the other formats. There needs to be something on that machine to decode the particular video compression methods chosen for that piece. The big difference between Flash video and QuickTime, Windows Media, and Real Players is that we use a single codec which can be visually and interactively integrated with other media in the page (text, images, buttons, animation etc). The other video formats tend to provide their own player, their own controls, their own chrome, and present video as an isolated media element, rather than as a integrated media element. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:212141 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Making a flash movie a link.
Ian Skinner wrote: > Is it possible to make an enitre flash .swf move a link, or does the > link have to be created inside the flash file? The OBJECT and EMBED tags don't offer an HREF for a link, so this can't be done directly, sorry. I know of a few other approaches to this goal, however: -- If you have the original Flash authoring file (.FLA) then you can add the link this way. -- If the SWF already has a "click anywhere" link in it, then Dreamweaver can be used to change the target of this link. -- If you know the playback browsers and if they all support the WMODE overlay ability, then you can add a link by a transparent DIV atop the plugin content. (Ken mentioned putting the SWF in a DIV and then assigning a link to the latter, but I'm not sure how the various browsers do in directing events in such a display... I'd expect such clicks to go to the SWF rather than the DIV, but would defer to testing in each of the various browser configurations popular among your audience.) Do any of the above bring you where you wish to go...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:211826 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: xhtml and cfform flash
Sebastian Mork wrote: > I mean the code that is generated for flash-forms like.. > ' id='CFForm_1' "); ...' > validator gives a lot of errs like 'there is no attribute "pluginspage"'. Core problem: The HTML 4.0 specification did not validate against realworld browsers, so its validator objects to tags the browsers use. (More info's available with a web search on term "dowdell object embed validate".) More browsers are starting to be able to invoke plugins via OBJECT tag alone, as the 1997 HTML 4.0 spec desired, but there are still squirrelly problems when relying on additional browser features (WMODE, LiveConnect, printing, streaming etc): http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/007923.cfm jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:210426 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Section 508 Compliance
Russ wrote: > A client is asking us about having their website coded for the disabled. > I'm assuming he's talking about Section 508 compliance. Can anyone point me > in the right direction for this? and for information on using Macromedia tools to better support those regulations, as well as links to varied resources, try: http://www.macromedia.com/resources/accessibility/ jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:210007 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Parsing a FlashPaper 2 (swf) file?
John Paul Ashenfelter wrote: > Is there any straightforward way to parse the Flashpaper 2 swf file to > extract the data in a more usable format? I'm receiving reports (think > MS Access-style reports) in that format and don't have any experience > with it. That's an interesting problem... the FlashPaper effort has been focused on providing officeworkers an easy way to get office documents onto webpages, and it's not really very functional as a data-transfer format. If someone starts with "MS Access-style reports" and ends up with "FlashPaper" but you actually need the data, then the first thing I'd wonder about would be whether they could do an Export from MS Access in a format you prefer, rather than going "Print" and then choosing "FlashPaper" as the output format. But if the "FlashPaper" part of that problem is a given -- if there's no way to use an actual data-exchange format instead -- then there are indeed utilities to extract text and other info from a compiled SWF file. Most of these are intended as develop-time tools rather than serving-time tools, however, so it might take some experimentation to find a good workflow. When I check the serverside offerings at swftools.com, I see mostly SWF-creation tools rather than SWF-cracking tools for the server: http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=720 Maybe one of the develop-time SWF extracters/decompilers can be automated for server use...? http://www.swftools.com/tools-category.php?cat=759 jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209869 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Cfform and iframe problem
Wayne Putterill wrote: > When I create a flash cfform I'm having a problem where part of a css > dropdown menu on the page is hidden behind it. > It doesn't seem to be anything to do with the z-index as far as I can > see, does anyone have an idea of whats going on? The answer is "WMODE": http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/search/index.cfm?loc=en_us&term=wmode (Recap: Plugins & controls usually render direct-to-screen. Some browsers offer a way to route the plugin's drawing to the browser's offscreen buffer, where it can then be merged within browser layers, drawn background-transparent, etc. Where available, this is triggered by a WMODE attribute/parameter in the plugin's markup. Some browsers have done strange things with such buffered drawing, such as printing upside-down, but today most of the popular browsers do seem to offer this without side-effects.) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209723 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: ColdFusion Version historical timeline?
Ian Skinner wrote: > I am not being sucusfull in finding a simple listing on when the various > versions of ColdFusion where offically released. Anybody here have a > link for that information? Sometimes, on mailing lists, you may not get a custom reply within the first hour ;-) For those here interested in the subject, I pointed to the set of Release Notes on the Macromedia site, as well as the Web Archive to get ahold of dates of earlier versions from the Allaire site. I suspect someone out there has a personal list of these dates published somewhere...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209620 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: ColdFusion Version historical timeline?
Ian Skinner wrote: > I am not being sucusfull in finding a simple listing on when the various > versions of ColdFusion where offically released. Anybody here have a > link for that information? I'm not sure how far back you need to go, or the level of detail needed, but one of the strongest such resources is the set of Release Notes for each tool: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/coldfusion/releasenotes.html If it's instead actual dates of announcement and/or ship, then that's harder... usually I'd go to a press release archive for this, but in ColdFusion's case the official press releases have been on two separate websites (allaire.com and macromedia.com). The Web Archive has copies of the Allaire site going back to 1997, and also has copies of the press release index from 1999 on: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.allaire.com/company/pressbox/index.cfm Example: http://web.archive.org/web/19991012205012/allaire.com/company/pressbox/pressreleases.cfm Is this the type of data you're seeking? or...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209619 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: flash platform
Micha Schopman wrote: > It would be if it brought something really new, but why would one choose > Flash for leveraging client applications. Why would one choose a Flash > Application over a Java / .NET application for the desktop? And why > would one choose a Flash application over a Java application on a mobile > phone. Strange moves imho. Mobile is easy... it's cheaper to do in SWF than Java. For instance, China's current phones are lower-end and have a J2ME engine but can't yet support SWF, yet applications for these phones are commonly developed and tested in SWF, before being passed to inexpensive Java programmers for implementations. (The "desktop" question doesn't scan for me, because the Flash client can work with either type of backend, and I'm assuming that you're not comparing with .NET or Java clientside.) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209169 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Flash SEO
dave wrote: > http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2161851 I haven't been very impressed with Shari Thurow's advice, personally... the things she says make it sound like she hasn't listened to the rest of us much. (Many of these writers seem to get hung up on the phrase "all Flash sites, no HTML", which is really pretty darn rare in the world.) For more context on both Thurow and her main quotee Gregory "irobot" Markel, here are past weblog items I've had on them: http://www.markme.com/mtadmin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=10&search=thurow http://www.markme.com/mtadmin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=10&search=markel I noticed you quoted my entire message in your reply, but I don't see how you thought Thurow's words were related to the suggestions I offered...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:208298 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Flash SEO
Robert Everland III wrote: > We have been doing a lot of flash sites with very minimal > HTML content. One of the things we have done is create a > text only website so that we can have our sites indexed > by search engines. The only issue with doing this is that > the search engine indexes the text only site instead of > my actual site. I have been toying with the idea of hiding > the content inside my page where my flash is so that when > a search engine spiders my site I have the plain text > version of that site indexed, but when they click on it > they are able to go to the site with the flash on it. > Has anyone done anything like this or though about doing > something like this? Search Engine Optimization is a funny field, because the targets of these tactics (the search engine vendors) not only don't extensively document how their engines work (for obvious reasons!) but they also regularly adjust their mechanisms. One approach which seems to help is to reverse the problem -- instead of "How can I make sure all search engines know about all the words I use?", try "How would I like someone to be able to find this site? What search terms will they likely use?" For a popular search term, like "flowers", you'll likely never get on the first page of results for any engine, because of all the flower vendors who have created linkfarms and other relationships to get on that front page. But once you identify the key target search terms under which you'd like to be found, then your static HTML on the pages which host SWF can use the engines' recommended techniques to show that your content is about those terms: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/ranking/ http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_CONC_AboutSiteRanking.htm&FORM=WRDD (Examples: HTML documents should have titles and URLs which reflect your key search targets... use metadata and body text appropriately on these keywords... get a good amount of highly-ranked inbound links with appropriate anchor text, etc.) Rephrased, it's rare that you'd have to have the engines know every single word you use, because people would not search on filler words, and even on relevant words you'd probably be outranked anyway. But if you look at the problem backwards -- from the final searcher's point of view -- then this reveals those key terms which should be highlighted through the usual methods. (Duplicate text sites sometimes work, but the search engines guard against cloaking and other spammer techniques, so such a trick may just break one day without warning.) Good...? jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:208270 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Regarding Java and .NET's incestuous ties, and Windows' future
Rob wrote: > On 5/27/05, Mike Klostermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>"...once Marc left last year, I think that was the sign that Microsoft is >>over as a software company..." > > Who's Marc? Mark Lucovsky...? http://mark-lucovsky.blogspot.com/ http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1772125,00.asp jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207902 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT Checking for video plugins
Stuart Kidd wrote: > Does anyone know of any client side code that checks for a certain video > plugin? Like: > If user has RealPlayer > do > If user has Windows Media > do > If user has Quicktime > do > Else Maybe "if user has Macromedia Flash Player v6.0 or greater"...? ;-) It's possible to poll most browsers to find what they have (check the plugins array, or try to create an ActiveX instance in IE/Win and VBScript -- websearch term "video detection javascript" pulls up many handlings), but you'd also have to check versioning if using recent codecs. I've seen a few sites which attempt this, like live365.com, but for me it has been 50/50 whether the script has recognized what my browser can do, and if the script doesn't work correctly, then the user can be locked out of content they can actually play. That's why most sites seem to present a button array for people to choose one of the architectures (albeit without information on plugin version and content requirements), as well as bandwidth buttons. Over the last year, many sites have moved to video through the Macromedia Flash Player to simultaneously reach a wider audience, simplify scripting development, and provide an overall better experience to site visitors. Sounds self-interested, I know, but it's true ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207788 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Flash Form unclickable
Fabio Terracini wrote: > Had anyone faced a flash forms problem that sometimes you can "use it"? > I means, some controls, often the bottom ones (some times one of them, > sometimes two, three, etc), became "unclickable"? > ... Any suggestions? One good tack with an unusual problem is the "some or all?" series of tests... here are some ways to narrow in on the true cause: -- some or all SWFs? try some known-to-be-good example sites in the balking browser (helps detect things like a flawed SWF, etc) -- some or all HTMLs? try the same SWF in the simplest HTML in those browsers (helps detect things like DIV problems, etc) -- some or all browsers? see if the problem occurs particularly in certain browser brands/platforms/versions, and never in others (helps detect things like LiveConnect reliance or caching, etc) -- some or all machines? see if a suspect browser acts the same on another machine The symptom isn't really clear to me -- I know the general area of where a visitor might experience problems, but I wouldn't be able to reliably tell someone else how they can make th eproblem happen too. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:206674 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and FlashLite?
Sean Corfield wrote: > > I get pretty ticked off by certain CFers feeling "slighted" every time > that Flash or Breeze or whatever gets a mention but CF is not > mentioned in the same article hah! *I'm* ticked off that Sean didn't mention that I noticed the same thing too...! :D :D (Seriously, there *is* a danger to such posts -- I've seen teams come away from reading such threads with the feeling "Wow, I don't think any feasible possibility could ever satisfy this crowd, so why bother trying?" The entire mailking list ends up with less influence that way. I haven't seen this with the CF group here, but I *have* seen it in the past with other software. Smacking down such posts *does* perform a public good, as harsh as it may seem to the original poster ;-) jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:205344 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and FlashLite?
Jim Davis wrote: > However Breeze is (from all accounts) struggling a bit. Breeze sales are actually exceeding expectations... like Contribute, both of these are being significantly invested in by people who don't normally write on web-developer mailing lists. I don't know how many sales a front-page SWF spot generates, but as Jim wrote, it likely varies by who uses a tool, and what they actually are seeking to discover about it when they visit the site. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:205295 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: SOT: Hiding a Flash Form
That "wmode" argument for browser extensions routes the extension's output to the browser for compositing, instead of drawing it directly to screen. This allows for transparent backgrounds as well as layering with the browser's own elements. Support varies by the browser. The plugin also needs to support it. Right now the Macromedia Flash Player is up-to-date with supporting browsers which support "wmode" drawing... IE/Win has offered it for years, and recent Firefox have offered it too. But note that sometimes browsers get a little strange when taking plugin content into its offscreen buffer for compositing... in the past there have been issues like "prints upside down", or "buttons still work when underneath", and more. I haven't seen hot problems for awhile in this area, but it's good to test the audience's various browsers carefully if using these drawing instructions. The browser vary and don't clearly document their abilities here. More info: Search terms like "wmode layer" or "wmode [browser-name]" in Macromedia Technotes or a general web search. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204518 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: Dreamweaver Save Files
Lee wrote: > How do I get Dreamweaver to stop saving (putting?) > multiple files? The files are on an FTP server and > whenever I want to save one file it goes out finds all > associated files and saves them also which is a little > annoying. It sounds like you're talking about the controls over dependent files here...? http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amacromedia.com+inurl%3Adreamweaver+dependent+files jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204059 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: streaming media comparison
Phill B wrote: > We plan on streaming 1-3 min videos of our boats on the water. We > would like to do some thing similar to what cnet has on the top right > of their home page in the CNet Video section Assuming this is "go to cnet.com and click the video tab", then they have chosen SWF video here. There's a distinct difference from other video architectures, because video is finally a first-class citizen in the rest of the page. For whether you'd even need a serverside component for streaming, try Chris Hock's overview of the options: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/articles/flv_download.html jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202893 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
Re: OT: Flash Banner Ads
At 4:01 PM 9/2/4, Jim McAtee wrote: >Mostly I'm wondering about the reusibility of the Flash banner - whether >it could be used in different ad campaigns without having to be recoded. Useful pre-existing info here: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/rich_media_ads http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/flash_ad_kit/ These show current standards people are using for using request and tracking data across various environments. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: Is the web broken?
At 12:01 PM 8/27/4, Dick Applebaum wrote: > Is it just me or is the web broken? > I can get to some sites but most are un available? > I can't get to Apple's servers but I can send mail thru them I can't trace your headers past the mailing list, and am unsure whether you're still connecting through the SF Bay Area. At the Internet Traffic Report's North America page I currently see outages in Colorado, Massachusetts, and Texas, with delays in Washington and Alaska. http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm For testing whether there's a .MAC problem, I'm able to get to their site and to the main Apple pages, no problems... scanning for news at macsurfer.com doesn't readily turn up relevant info either. A Google News search on "network california" turns up no results. Summary: No smoking gun... trying another computer at the same connection could eliminate one set of potential causes. jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Flash lists
Another tip, for any of the Macromedia technologies, is to go to the related Support Center and scroll down to the "More Resources" section... lots of sites and groups are listed at each. Example: http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ (scroll down and click...) http://www.macromedia.com/go/4148 (the result) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
RE: Convert .swf to .exe w/CF?
At 9:06 AM 8/11/4, Bailey, Neal wrote: > At 7:31 AM 8/11/4, Damien McKenna wrote: >> The easier way, just have a link to the actual SWF with >> instructions to right-click and hit Save As rather than >> left-clicking. Then they just have to double-click on the >> file to open it up in their default SWF viewer (usually a >> web browser or the Flash Player). > > Yeah that would be nice... but a lot of these people will not > have Flash player installed, only the browser plug-in, and > unless the swf format is associated with IE it will not open > automatically. But truly the biggest problem is this is for our > average users, when you say something like right click and save > as, you have already lost them and then they are calling our > support line. So I really need this to be as simple as possible > for them. Maybe turn this around... how do you visualize these people finding the file that they'd like to view offline? Do you think they'll be looking at the original HTML page they saw while they were connected? (If so, then this seems like a problem of reliable browser caching rather than doing anything SWFfy.) Or do you see them taking some direct action, saying, "Yes, this is something I'll want to view later on the train." (If so, then it seems they might as well do a "Save" as anything else.) Some browsers have a "package as archive" option for the entire contents of a web page... others have big local caches as a default... these might be simpler than creating all those native-code executable files and telling people they're safe to download and run, assuming they can find it later on their hard drive, yes...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: Why is Flash so slow on OSX? OT
At 12:50 PM 8/9/4, Dick Applebaum wrote: > I just ran that movie with very few jerks, but it took 33 % > of the CPU cycles while it was running. By contrast, I ran > a QuickTime movie at 720x480 millions of colors, 30 > fps, video and sound and it used 25-30% CPU. Yes, that's possible. Consider what you're measuring, and how they differ. > Would it be possible for you or someone at Macromedia to do a > side-by-side test between a Mac and equivalent PC to see if there > is, in fact, some problem with running Flash on the Mac. First, we'd need to go through the arguments on how to compare a Mac and PC to find "equivalent" models, which I hope would occur on some other mailing list ;-) Recap: The Macromedia Flash Player for Macintosh has received a large amount of extra engineering resources already. If you're seeing something different than what other Macintosh users see, though, then the situation is usually amenable to troubleshooting. At 1:12 PM 8/9/4, Damien McKenna wrote: > a competitor's website uses Flash exclusively, with many iframes, > and it chokes Firefox to the point of having to close it. In case this comes to "What is a frequent difference that causes some sites to choke some browsers?", then the most frequent cause I've seen, by far, has been an excessively high framerate which seeks to commandeer all the cycles of the processor. (Disney animation was 24fps two-up, for an effective framerate of 12fps, for instance. YMMV.) jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT: Why is Flash so slow on OSX?
At 11:21 AM 8/9/4, Damien McKenna wrote:
> The Our Land movie jumps all over the place here on my
> 1gig'r G4. That is unacceptable.
Searching "flash mac slow" pulls up lots of other threads with diagnostic
questions and background. (Pulls up lots of threads without info, too,
though... searcher beware.)
You just inadvertently did the "some-or-all files" test with your mention
of JibJab's "This Land Will Vote For Me" piece. Next step is to ask
yourself whether your Mac is doing it slower than other Macs, to do the
"some-or-all machines" test. (From the paucity of similar comments on that
file, I suspect you'll find the answer to be true here.)
After that, sticking with that known-quality piece of content, you can
start examining what else your system is doing at the time. You're likely
running a browser (rather than standalone), and browsers _definitely_
differ in how they allocate cycles for guest processes such as browser
plugins ("some-or-all browsers" test). If you're streaming, then poof there
go some of your chip cycles, although the lack of similar comments from
other Mac users on that SWF still points to an additional cofactor
("some-or-all times" test). Checking for other background processes is a
definite step to take as well.
For Macs in general, if you'll check the history you'll see there has been
tons of extra engineering allocated to the Mac Player, so it's not an issue
of negligence. Isolating out why that SWF is different on your Mac than on
other Macs is a useful first step.
jd
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Re: Mandarin... Internationalization, Localization
At 9:24 AM 8/3/4, Gonzo Rock wrote:
> I am soliciting paid help with this project. Our large CF
> application, (estimate ~900 cfm files), needs to be localized
> for Taiwan.
For finding a service, web searches like "localizing website chinese" pulls
up services.
For "Mandarin/Taiwan", it gets a little tricky. What we call "Mandarin" is
a short-hand term for the spoken language usually called in English "Modern
Standard Chinese", and is in practice Beijing-style speech with regional
additions, called "Putongua" ("ordinary speech") on the mainland. In Taiwan
the same spoken language is called "guoyu" or "national speech", and is a
bit more strictly Beijing-style than Putongua. Guoyu joins the native
Taiwanese spoken dialect, Min. All are called generically "hanyu" or
"Chinese speech", as well.
But for written language, Taiwan and mainland China use slightly different
character sets, and there are still political ramifications about the
characters in which text is written. Websites use one of the GB encodings
for Simplified Chinese. The mainland communists in 1956 reduced the total
number of characters and simplified many, in hopes of increasing general
literacy. Taiwan retained the larger set and more complex writing of
characters, and use Big5 encoding.
It's possible that some websites in Taiwan today might want to translate to
Simplified Chinese, especially considering the increased business
interaction between Taiwan, Hong Kong and the mainland these days, but if
it's for an internal audience then the Traditional character set would
likely be preferred.
Aside from the Simplified/Traditional split, the written language is fairly
constant across the whole country... for spoken language, Putongua is the
official standard, but is often taught as a second language in many parts
of China (dialects abound). Finding out precisely which "chinese" the
customer wants would be a necessary step before contacting a translation
service...?
(For more info on the above, http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/china
has tons of good articles.)
Summary: Mandarin is spoken, but websites are written, and both spoken and
written forms of Chinese are in flux.
Sorry I made the problem even harder, but ;-)
jd
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Re: SOT: Is this possible? was mediaPlayer
At 8:06 AM 7/20/4, Dick Applebaum wrote: > [snip] Are you asking "How can I control a QuickTime file via _javascript_?" If so, then a Google search on "site:apple.com liveconnect" will bring up relevant documents. If you're instead asking something closer to "Can I stop a QuickTime stream?" then the missing part of the question would be whether you're using an HTTP server or a QuickTime streaming server, and then answer would likely be in the Apple docs somewhere. NB: One of the reasons that Flash technologies are popular for this type of work is that the interactivity is handled in the same engine as the multimedia rendering, so you don't have to do browser-testing and the dual _javascript_/VBScript implementations to get it to work. (The thread title chosen here doesn't help figure out what the question might be, either.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: OT/flash question
At 10:35 AM 7/16/4, Katz, Dov B (IT) wrote: > quick flash question. is there any way to supply (in flash 5 > and up) a custom param tag when embedding in a web page, and > use it in the actionscript of the flash.. for example, with > a web banner, I want to be able to parametrically supply the > click-through URL, etc... The common way these days to pass data to the SWF through its hosting markup is via the FlashVars parameter & attribute for OBJECT and EMBED tags, respectively: "Using FlashVars to pass variables to a SWF" http://www.macromedia.com/go/16417 But you mentioned the Macromedia Flash Player 5... FlashVars was introduced two years ago with the 6.0 Player. For earlier approaches, try: "Different approaches to setting variables in a Flash movie" http://www.macromedia.com/go/14253 Unless you have a specific and odd audience, I'd urge you to reinvestigate that "MFP5 or better" constraint... from the MediaMetrix March consumer audit, fewer than 3% of consumers have only the Macromedia Flash Player 5 installed, and well over 90% have either of the last two versions: http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetra tion.html (If you're on a landlocked intranet or other situation where people cannot install software onto their own machines, then it may be useful to lobby the client to have their machines upgraded to something recent... there have been many security and performance improvements over the past few years.) If you're by chance creating a web banner advertising system, then DoubleClick's DART Motif and similar resources have already worked through these issues: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/rich_media_ads jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
fyi: Win XP SP2 RC available
Microsoft's Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is shaping up to be a significant release, because much existing web content may change. It would be good to check some of your sites before your clients do...! Links to various resources here: http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/005363.cfm (Try that "eWeek context" link first, and then "Microsoft's advice to webmasters" for the quickest overview.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings] [Donations and Support]
Re: Phone Number for Macromedia Contact (is: longer trial)
At 6:58 AM 6/4/4, Claremont, Timothy wrote: >A couple weeks ago a few list members suggested that I call Macromedia >and explain my situation for wanting to extend the license on my demo >version of CFMX for a short time until my capital request goes through. >Can anyone provide the contact information for the appropriate party to >contact? If things go one-to-one it can get strange, because then you risk hearing different things from different people. Most CF staffers don't have trial-version keys anyway, so you'd likely get into some kind of long email chain. Fortunately, as Nancy pointed out, Macromedia Customer Service would be the actual contact point, and they have a full listing of common issues with trial versions... seems like "early expiration" is the closest match in their top-level documents: http://www.macromedia.com/support/service/trial.html There's also a Customer Service contact there, but it's faster for you to doublecheck whether they've already documented what you'd like to talk with someone about, thanks. (Hmm, but for ColdFusion, the trial expiration turns it into a development version with limited IPs, right? So there wouldn't be a problem unless it was already being used commercially with large numbers of people...?) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: calling on Flash to create a file [OT]
At 9:47 AM 5/31/4, Frank Dewey wrote:
> I am having trouble getting getURL() in Flash to display the
> text in the sibling frame. I am using:
> getURL("text.cfm?id="+dragID,"_top.text")
> Do you know what I am doing wrong?
This might be better in a Flash area, and I'm not sure I can reliably
answer this from what I read, but one way that similar posts appear is when
there are scope issues in variable definitions between browser and plugin.
For instance, that variable named "dragID" might have its value defined in
the browser, or it might be defined in the plugin. If your statement is
evaluated in the other environment, then you might not have the values you
expect.
I'm not sure whether the above is a literal quote, or whether it's just a
typing error, but if you ask a browser to get to a file named
"text.cfm?id=23_top.text" then it might not be able to resolve the domain
or directories either.
One way to troubleshoot work like this is to evaluate the variables in a
discrete step, and test whether the value you achieve is the value you
expect, as in:
newAddress="http://www.mysite.com/project1/text.cfm?id="+dragID
trace(newAddress)
getURL(newAddress, "+top.text")
Checking what the browser receives is another step beyond that. Testing
whether your window names are as expected is a step beyond that.
jd
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Re: Any MM people here? (is: CF5/Ent-J for sale?)
At 10:31 PM 5/28/4, Chunshen (Don) Li wrote: > My client needs to upgrade his CF5.0 Professional Edition on > Japanese OS to CF5.0 Enterprise Edition for Japanese OS. > How do we go about this? Please advise asap. No CFMX, > there's a third party tool tied to the CF5.0 and it won't > work with CFMX. There was a long weekend here in the US, but I hope that during the interim you figured out a path to proceed. The reason old software isn't usually advertised on the site is because it isn't usually available in stock anymore. Sometimes Customer Service staff salt away a few old copies for people who may end up maintaining legacy projects, but I'd be surprised if there were any left for ColdFusion 5.0 Enterprise Edition, much less the Japanese version. Checking into later progress on the unnamed third-party tool might be another path...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: calling on Flash to create a file
At 3:22 PM 5/28/4, Frank Dewey wrote: >I am using Flash (although I should be going home!) to talk to >ColdFusion that connects to a database. All works well as far as updates >and inserts, ...). However I would like for my application to also be >able to create a file. Think about where the thing actually lives. If you've got in-browser SWF, then you're asking a plugin to write to (presumably) a known location on the hard drive, which is a safety risk. If you're running in a standalone then you've got to ask what your standalone shell can do... if it's in the Central shell you've got a different situation... you might even be trying to run a SWF on a server, can't be sure. Generally, for "Does [some form] of SWF play write to disk?" the answer would be "no". You may be able to achieve your goal, though, depending on exactly what it is. jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Browser compatibility testing
At 11:21 AM 4/21/4, ketan patel wrote: > I am looking for a tool or software to test my application > in all browsers for Windows,MAC,Linux. Please let me know > about this if anybody know about it. "Tool or software" sounds like getting a bunch of boxes and loading browsers on there: http://browsers.evolt.org/ (Doublecheck connection speed and settings too.) Thomas mentioned an online service, and BrowserCam is open for business: http://www.browsercam.com/ Dan Vine is working on another service: http://www.danvine.com/iecapture/ jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: OT: Fireworks MX/data-driven graphics
At 1:51 PM 4/20/4, Scott Mulholland wrote: > I was wondering if anyone knew if it was at all possible to call > the functionality of that wizard via command line or some other > scripting method? I'm not sure of which functions you're hunting, but I know where they're found... check the "Extending Fireworks MX 2004" manual, online here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/fireworks/ (The application itself has a strong API, but you may not need much of it if you're only seeking to change the data-source, rather than the display options.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Is it a bug or not a bug?
At 11:59 AM 4/20/4, Johnny Le wrote: >#(true and 4*5)# returns 20. >#(false and 4*5)# returns false. >#(4*5 and false)# returns false. >#(4*5 and true)# returns true. >Is it a bug or it is using some sort of _expression_ evaluation that I am >not aware of. Watch out for intrinsic conversions... if you're trying to do logical operations upon disparate datatypes (for whatever reason you may find) then it's usually easier to cast them yourself beforehand, so that you can check that your expectation matches reality. Comes up in many languages. (It's like a thread title "Is it a bug or am I Shakespeare?", when you come right down to it.) jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flex again! [way OT]
At 12:58 PM 4/15/4, Bryan Stevenson wrote: > Well we all implicitly trust stats from the manufacturers of > products the stats relate to don't we ;-) Dude. If you've got a specific objection after reading the methodology, then please do bring it up, particularly in a relevant forum. But reflexive distrust... the world has no time for that stuff anymore. out jd PS: At 12:59 PM 4/15/4, Kenneth Wilson wrote: > When will that FlashPaper printer driver be available outside of > Contribute for those who don't use or need Contribute? If a product manager doesn't put desired info up on their section of the site, then that info doesn't exist. I hear all sorts of rumors, and things passed to beta lists or reporters or what-not, and keeping it all straight and guarantee-able is impossible. Use the site itself as the best arbiter of group consensus on future actions. [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: Flex again!
At 11:52 AM 4/15/4, Dave Carabetta wrote: > At 11:16 AM 4/15/4, Stacy Young wrote: >> As for penetration, I think player 7 is at about 30-40% or >> higher...takes about a year I think to reach mid 90's. > > There a page where you can get penetration stats through 12/2003 > on MM's site: > >http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetr >ation.html SWF7 Player was released in Aug/Sep03. Dec03 consumer audit shows about 30% SWF7 viewership. I'm anticipating the Mar03 audit to be published within the next month, and am guessing that 40-50% of consumers tested will immediately be able to see SWF7 content. The usual caveats apply about how your site's particular audience may or may not match general consumer norms. This rate of adoption is very quick because it is a small download with few environmental changes... easier than updating a video architecture, much easier than updating a browser. (Bryan, if a PDF opens in four seconds on your machine, well... you've got a faster machine than I do ;-) That "FlashPaper" printer driver in every copy of Contribute can make PDF formatting even quicker and more svelte, if you'd like.) (Dick, that sounds like an interesting sample file... any total filesize comparisons, controls against display choices, etc? Usually people see the opposite of what you reported, so it would be good to learn the crucial differences, thanks.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: SOT: Flash Remoting vs Web Services vs XML
Are you asking how the above options compare? If so, then a Google search on term "'flash remoting' 'web services'" pulls up existing assets on choosing between server-specific binary and server-independent XML/SOAP. (There are other discussions, too, but they're mixed in with other hits on those two query phrases.) ... or is it that you already read Steven Webster's article at DevNet (the top hit on the above term), and have an additional question? or...? > ... am having a bit of a hard time deciding which route > to pursue Well, it's trite of me, but one reliable approach is to keep things as simple as possible to solve the problem. You're already using ColdFusion so I'm assuming you can produce web services for consumption. Is there a reason why you couldn't go this way, and would instead be considering the tighter connectivity of the remoting approach...? (There are RIA mailing lists out there, but they tend to be focused on user experience rather than plumbing type, but I may not yet understand what is being sought.) Hmm, or maybe it's "What's an easy way to approach creating data-driven UIs in the Macromedia Flash authoring environment?" If so, then there's a portal which seems tuned to this need: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash/data_integration.html Or...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Dreamweaver MX 6.1 oddity
At 11:29 AM 4/12/4, Hagan, Ryan Mr (Contractor ACI) wrote: > Any idea what it is and how I get rid of it? Specifically, it's sounding like you're trying to edit an instance of a template master within Dreamweaver. (In the master template you can edit anything, but in instances of that template you can only edit the regions you've marked as editable within the master.) For the PHP or HomeSite aspects I can't tell the history of that document, but if you're seeing Dreamweaver's template tags in there like that, then that goes along with the general description you provide of finding certain regions editable, certain regions locked. More info: http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/templates.html jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash 7 for Unix
At 4:25 AM 3/17/4, Thomas Chiverton wrote: > Does anyone have any clues about when FlashPlayer 7 is due for Unix ? "Unix" covers a lot of ground, particularly on desktops rather than on servers. Mike Chambers had a recent beta call for various desktop Linux flavors, if that's of interest: http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/004504.cfm jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: SOT: Laszio Presentation Server for RIA
At 4:53 PM 3/15/4, Dick Applebaum wrote: > Has anyone looked at this product? > > As near as I can tell it is an XML-Driven implementation > of RIA using _javascript_ (but includes OO constructs). Useful, huh? Its closest parallel is likely Macromedia Flex, and there are similarities with Mozilla XUL and Microsoft XAML too. ColdFusion usually uses HTML and tags to do serverside creation of HTML files, while Flex uses XML and parameterizable components to do serverside creation of SWF. XML interface layout is a big thing now, lots of activity in this area. Try searching at MXNA or FullasaGoog with terms like "xaml" or "laszlo" for more conversation. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: OT: Interesting article on Macromedia Central...
Che wrote: > I checked out writting flash code and, I am sure you have heard > this, the naming convention is ridiculous. Stage? Actor? Wha? > Most developers have spent quite a bit of time learing what > object, methods and the like are all about - why come up with > a totally unique language describing things that dont need it? You're right, the authoring metaphor in the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 authoring tool is built around the mental model of someone who comes in from visual design, rather than from abstract design. The form-based development in the Pro version is a help (it's similar to the mental model used in Visual Basic and similar tools), but it's not like the text-based editing coming soon in Macromedia Flex. Key concept: The development environment can be separate both from the file format, and from the runtime environment. Flash technology has outgrown the single integrated authoring tool... the SWF file format, and the Macromedia Flash Player, offer things to people who prefer to develop in very different ways. The file format and clientside runtime engine are no longer linked to a single type of development environment. (For David Becker's CNET article, there's existing discussion on blogs from me, Mike Chambers, David Bisset, Jesse Ezell, others.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Fireworks JSAPI
At 1:09 PM 1/14/4, Michael Dinowitz wrote: > Does anyone here know the API specs? Anyone played with it? Docs available here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/fireworks/ There are two major stages in the growth of this API. The first occurred a few years ago, when Fireworks introduced an internal _javascript_ Document Object Model, captured in the History Panel. (Example: Perform a few GUI actions, open History, copy-to-clipboard... you've got _javascript_ which can then be used to automated the tool.) In the current MX 2004 version, Fireworks also introduced the ability to run as a "headless agent", a background process without any windowing to perform graphic manipulations for applications such as Dreamweaver MX 2004. I haven't hit the docs on this area yet and don't know offhand the interapp communication mechanism. I'm not sure if the core question is "Can Fireworks live on a server, read an XML file, and create an on-demand chart?" If so, then in most cases no, it's tested for design-time use rather than serve-time use... different environments. But I may have pulled out the wrong core question...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon
At 11:34 AM 1/7/4, Matt Liotta wrote: > there is no reason to use Flash Remoting anymore since Flash 7 > supports web services. Sorry I'm late, but binary formats are fast. They complement SOAP and services: universality vs efficiency. (No idea on a Blue Dragon gateway, sorry.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Flash Instant Messenger Software?
At 12:43 PM 12/8/3, cf-talk wrote: > Does anyone know of some cheap/free "instant messenger" software > that can embed in a ColdFusion intranet application? If it's page-based, on an intranet, then I'm assuming a chat app would work as well as an IM app...? (A chat is a place you go where you can communicate with anyone also there... in IM you set up a whitelist of people you feel safe communicating with. The combo of intranet and being in a page seems an effective whitelist.) You'd need both a client component and a server component in either case. I'm not sure which of each might be best for your situation. The following two Google terms turn up hits: site:macromedia.com inurl:devnet chat site:macromedia.com inurl:devnet "instant messenger" The search engine at http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs can turn up current discussions on such subjects too. Do any of these help define the project...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Looking Up Issues on MM Site
At 11:38 AM 12/1/3, Chris Montgomery wrote: > Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 2:17:51 PM, Jochem van Dieten wrote: >> ...it is about time that that standard issupported. issue #49751 > > How the heck does one look up issues on Macromedia's site? I tried > searching for the above issue number and got no hits. Is there > a search form just for looking up issues? Thanks. I don't know the page Jochem was pointing towards. Searching for that number or the term "mmdd" does not pull up any hits through the Google engine. The thread title was changed, so I can't readily pull up the longer quote, but if you say that you'd like any particular style of formatting then that could go directly here, without having to look anything up: http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Anyone from Macromedia on this list, who could help me out.
At 11:53 AM 11/21/3, Ciliotta, Mario wrote: > I can go to the CF Exchange but I cannot see any descriptions... > My company has blocked the running of ActiveX's... > I am using IE6.0 on Windows 2000. If you're in IE/Win and are prevented from running any ActiveX Controls then you cannot see any SWF content, because that browser uses ActiveX Controls as an extension mechanism. I suspect your IT group may have blocked the installation of new ActiveX Controls, but from what you wrote, the above is the easiest way to get the Exchange to "not work". If the description was incorrect, and further troubleshooting is needed, then I know that the ColdFusion Exchange is functioning for me. It uses Flash Remoting for data-loading, so difficulties with binary transfers can affect the display. It would be good to check on what changed since the Exchange last worked normally on that system... if the symptom appeared just a few days ago you can check with your local system administrators about any changes to data transfers or for local damage to your own setup. If it never worked correctly on that box then the troubleshooting path would be different... best approached by expanding the baseline and then contracting it... the usual "one or all?" kinds of tests. > I have 6.79 or is it something else. Try using the current version, assuming you have permission to install things on your machine. > I tried to contact Macromedia thru emails and a phone call > but I have not received a response. If you mailed my private inbox then your message was unfortunately grouped with thousands of spam messages... I filter on the mailing list and anticipated senders. If you sent to other Macromedian's personal addresses then please be advised that many are in transit this week. If you mailed through the actual Customer Service or Technical Support forms and did not receive a reply then we need to track that, thanks. > The cookie is from a company called Omniture Inc I did a search on "site:macromedia.com omniture" and learned that we use Omniture software internally for web traffic analysis: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia.hr/reqs/engineering/pw0029.html I then checked my Mozilla Cookie Manager to see if I had a cookie from the Omniture site itself, but unfortunately didn't do this until after I visited the Omniture site itself, with the result that I can't guarantee that there's no web-bug anywhere on the Macromedia site which is hosted on the Omniture site. (I can't restart Mozilla at the moment to test this.) I'd be surprised if the maker of the software analysis tools had any reason to look at the Exchange, but at the moment I cannot prove this is not the case, sorry. At 12:04 PM 11/21/3, Mark Stewart wrote: > Don't have an answer, but I've been unable to post to the forums > the past few days either. They must have locked up the house while > they're all at MAX. I use the newsgroup side, and have regularly seen posters from the webforum side. I know that there was a brief outage of the webforum services Sunday, but that was cleared up in a few hours. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Central app for MAX - useless? [OT]
At 5:24 PM 11/14/3, Kevin Graeme wrote: > For me this is completely useless since I know better than to > lug around a laptop for this kind of thing. I was hoping for > a PDA utility so that it would actually be portable. The Central shell is intended to go to pocket devices eventually, but not this first version... the plan is to prove it first in the Mac/Win audience, incorporate early feedback for shaping, and after that hit Linux, PDAs, phones, TVs, etc. (I still have last year's paper conference guide, and it's about two laptops thick... can't read Google News on it either ;-) > A localized Central server option. For distribution, you don't have to go through the Macromedia navigation/transaction engine if you don't wish. Keep an eye out for more news on business models next week. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Dreamweaver 2004 MX - Issues
At 12:25 PM 10/7/3, Massimo, Tiziana e Federica wrote: > Raymond wrote: > > So what _would_ be the actual concern? > > Good question :-) You want *me* to get between a lawyer and their own words? No way, no way, I'd rather run and play in traffic, thanks ;-) (Seriously, from what I understand the situation they're trying to guard against is similar to what Kevin wrote about... trying to protect against a single license being used in multiple versions across multiple machines. I'll keep pushing it on my end, but dropping a note to the wishlist can really help indicate the public discomfort with the current phrasing, thanks.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
RE: FYI (is: Eolas patent)
At 12:05 PM 10/7/3, Brad Roberts wrote: > I haven't seen anything about how this affects Netscape, > AOL, Opera, etc. Aren't they "infringing" on Eola$ patent? That's a legal issue, decided by lawyers. I'm not qualified to speak on that, although I'm quite interested in the technical issues of accommodating Microsoft's browser changes which attempt to accommodate the judge's ruling on the understanding of the patent, and also the social issues of how people will respond to this new browser: http://www.markme.com/jd/archives/003426.cfm jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: Dreamweaver 2004 MX - Issues
At 2:18 AM 10/6/3, Adam Reynolds wrote: > Anybody else having real pain the in the arse issues See "Dreamweaver Emerging Issues" technotes for top complaints under investigation: http://www.macromedia.com/go/18895 For EULA, I have confirmed with the lawyers here that the intent of Section 4 is not to prohibit keeping an old version installed when a new version is installed on that machine, and am trying to get them to rewrite it to make the actual concern clearer without raising additional issues. If you could drop a note to the Dreamweaver wishlist then that could help this effort, thanks: http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]
Re: No so good news (is: Eolas patent) [OT]
At 12:06 PM 9/12/3, Jeremy wrote: > Off topic but it is Friday after all. > Bad News :( > http://news.com.com/2104-1032_3-5074799.html > http://www.zeldman.com Hold horses until Microsoft and W3C actually say something... there are some questions about the Festa article. More in my blog. Jon Hall wrote: > This is the first time they have made public the workarounds > they are discussing. I'm not sure of that myself... see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-plugins/2003Sep/0124.html jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
Testing period for new Flash Player
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/public_beta If you have any public sites using SWF files, particularly complex SWF files or ones with complex server interaction or other tricks, then please take advantage of this special time to ensure the new Player renders your existing work to your satisfaction. Once a Player enters general consumer distribution it cannot be called back, so please confirm today that it supports your existing sites, thanks! jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Anyone looked at MM Breeze?
At 9:42 AM 7/17/3, Stacy Young wrote: > My point was that their current offering is inaccessible to many > folks to which this solution would be very applicable. That's true, it's definitely priced to large groups rather than small groups or individuals. (fwiw, Breeze Presentation and Breeze Training have been doing very well in sales, and I suspect both might be eclipsed by Breeze Live, the meeting module... the current model is meeting the needs of many people, although definitely not all people.) Last quarter's analyst presentation does mention that we're working on hosting as well as enterprise licenses, so there's hope for the future... see slide 25 here: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/ir/macr/quarter/presentation/ (Warning: Content here may change on July 23, at the next quarter's report.) One thing that has been blowing me away is the quality of technical presentations created in Breeze, for Macromedia User Groups and other meetings. When these abilities are dispersed to individuals I think the world will see great benefits. We just need to get the business model in place first ;-) If you can spare five minutes, then describing what you need to present, to how many in what situation, and what types of costs you can negotiate with your client, would be very helpful as a feature request to the Breeze team... this could increase the odds that the model could be tuned to include your own situation, thanks: http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/index.cgi?6213=28 jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: SOT Flash vs Java Applet to display streaming data
At 9:12 AM 6/16/3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Scotttrader at www.scotttrader.com provides a free java applet > that allows you to monitor stock positions in real time. I didn't see it on the front page or "stocks" link there, sorry... the following won't be a first-hand comparison. > In general it is fast and quite nice, but suffers from some of the > common Java applet problems [works with only certain browser versions, > displays differently (incorrectly) in different browser versions, > does not play nicely with other browser windows]... Would a Flash > implementation perform as well, worse, better than the Java applet? The main problem with client-side Java is player heterogeneity... there are multiple brands of Java Virtual Machines. A secondary problem is the download cost of versioning... small downloads tend to get greater update rates than do large downloads. (For proof of that latter point, compare the versioning stats for the Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Players... the smaller downloads tend to be more up-to-date than the larger downloads.) I can't see the drawing methods used in that applet at scotttrader.com, but I don't know of any drawing methods available in popular Java VMs that are not available in the Flash Player. Bar charts, fever graphs, pie charts... these are standard display methods. For performance I'd expect similar retrieval, computation and display costs. The biggest difference between Java and Flash may be in startup costs... a SWF in a page usually starts up much more quickly than a Java applet does. The biggest problem with such an application may be in finding a data source. Once you get a good live feed then it should be straightforward to render it to screen...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: Flash file access (was: mm site)
At 1:42 PM 3/14/3, Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote: > If Flash is to have file uploading, it means it would need some > way to access the client's disk (outside of the cookie-esque > system in place). But isn't that where security issues would > come in to play? It could. That's why there's a distinction in privileges between clicking a link, and clicking an application. Inside a document browser we're used to jumping hither thither and yon, and we want to be protected from ill effects. In a trusted application installed on your machine there can be considerably more leeway. (I'm assuming you're already aware of the options to create standalone applications with the Macromedia Flash technology, in addition to the common in-browser usage.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: OT: flash z-index
At 11:16 AM 1/29/3, Ben Doom wrote: > I understood that the z-index of a flash movie was "infinte" -- > that you couldn't float anything (layer, div, etc) over the movie. > Please someone tell me I'm wrong and that I'm just overlooking something! > If you /can/ change the z-index, how? Search "wmode" in the technotes. (IE/Win had been the only browser to do this, but two months ago other browsers added this... see Release Notes for Player for current list.) jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://jdmx.blogspot.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: [OT] Resizable Flash Ad
At 1:28 PM 1/29/3, Sean McCarthy wrote: > Has anyone seen a tutorial on a resizable flash ad like > the ones that yahoo or msnbc do from time to time > Basically i want it to go from a 225x225 to a 75x125 or so. Search "wmode" in the technotes. The ad actually starts full-page, but with a transparent background. IE/Win has been on the only browser to support such "overlay" ads, but this past autumn Mozilla and Mac OS X browsers had this capability added. I'm not sure how long it will take for advertisers' detection schemes to serve such ads to more than just IE/Win. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://jdmx.blogspot.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: GoLive 6 to Dreamweaver MX
At 6:48 AM 1/20/3, David Brown wrote: > Our disigner would like to convert her GoLive 6 "site" to a > DreamWeaver local site. Is there a way to import from one to > the other or does she need to just connect to the server and download? There *was* a technote on the subject, but this apparently was replaced with a few multi-page documents on the site, and I haven't evaluated them to see if they're still exhaustive. Try searching the Dreamweaver technotes with "golive" to pull these documents up. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://jdmx.blogspot.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: BlueDragon J2EE on OSX - Working !!!
At 10:41 AM 1/9/3, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 3:48 PM 1/8/3, John Dowdell wrote: >> At 6:39 PM 1/7/3, Vince Bonfanti wrote: >>> JRun 4 + CFMX = $900/CPU + $3400/CPU = $4300/CPU >>> Tomcat + BlueDragon = Free + $1000/server = $1000/server >> >> Hmm... how do you respond to people who point out that they can get >> if "for free" on a warez site...? > > I've read this several times, and I'm still trying to understand your point. It's a pretty simple question. I'll rephrase it. If you reduce your equation to initial cost, such as with that ad you posted there, then how do you logically deal with people who find ways to reduce your prices still further? Do you use that "it's illegal" line, the might-makes-right argument Rob mentioned? Or might you point out how it's valuable to compensate the people who actually create a technology, how this is an investment in future work? Or do you perhaps have some other way to deal with parasites like that...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://jdmx.blogspot.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: BlueDragon J2EE on OSX - Working !!! [OT]
At 2:05 PM 1/9/3, Haggerty, Mike wrote: > That's not fair! Please reread. tx, jd ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: BlueDragon J2EE on OSX - Working !!!
At 6:39 PM 1/7/3, Vince Bonfanti wrote: > JRun 4 + CFMX = $900/CPU + $3400/CPU = $4300/CPU > Tomcat + BlueDragon = Free + $1000/server = $1000/server Hmm... how do you respond to people who point out that they can get if "for free" on a warez site...? jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Developer Support, San Francisco (Best to reply on-list, to avoid my mighty spam filters!) Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Column: http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/jd_forum/ Technical daily diary: http://jdmx.blogspot.com/ ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
