Re: AJAX back button

2007-02-23 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Detect Acrobat Reader Installation

2007-02-07 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Detect Acrobat Reader Installation

2007-02-07 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flash Player 8+ requirement for an App

2006-12-11 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: cfform format=flash won''t render

2006-10-30 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Using PDF's...

2006-10-25 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: WiFi available at MAX?

2006-10-19 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: video hosting?

2006-10-16 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

Re: FlashPaper vs PDF

2006-10-04 Thread John Dowdell
/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

Re: Flex 2 - painfully slow...

2006-09-01 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: Flash or Ajax to Compliment CF Project

2006-08-15 Thread John Dowdell
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_Partsfile=2079.html http://page.freett.com/isolations_nest/upload/test20.html jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe

Re: coldfusion scam site

2006-08-10 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: SOT: Flash 9 install?

2006-07-28 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: SOT: Flash 9 install?

2006-07-28 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Translation webservice?

2006-07-27 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: Adobe labs slow to load?

2006-07-20 Thread John Dowdell
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Re: OT: Adobe labs slow to load?

2006-07-20 Thread John Dowdell
. 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

Re: OT: How do Phishermen send an email from a legitimate domain?

2006-07-06 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Dreamweaver

2006-06-27 Thread John Dowdell
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:

Re: Hype 2.0

2006-05-15 Thread John Dowdell
. 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

Re: OT: IE ActiveX Patch

2006-04-21 Thread John Dowdell
://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

Re: BEA licenses BlueDragon for WebLogic

2006-04-17 Thread John Dowdell
. To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com 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

Re: convert windows media file to flash video on the fly

2006-01-23 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Free Installation Support - Where?

2005-10-31 Thread John Dowdell
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Re: Inline frames a good alternative for creating web applications?

2005-10-27 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: Question: How Much of an Interest is there in AJAX?

2005-10-24 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

Re: OT: Question: How Much of an Interest is there in AJAX?

2005-10-24 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Question: How Much of an Interest is there in AJAX?

2005-10-24 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: MXNA down?

2005-10-20 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Security question...

2005-10-20 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: MXNA down?

2005-10-20 Thread John Dowdell
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:

Re: OT: Disabling Flash Links

2005-10-10 Thread John Dowdell
. 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

Re: SOT: Where can I download DWMX04?

2005-10-03 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: DESPERATE!!! Any way to embed SWF within CFDOCUMENT (PREVIOUSLY CFDOCUMENT ERROR)

2005-08-24 Thread John Dowdell
-- 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

Re: PDF to PDF Comparison

2005-08-03 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

Re: Need help with XML to JavaScript

2005-07-26 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: WMode Flash and HTML Forms

2005-07-19 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

Re: SOT: Free flash media player

2005-07-18 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Making a flash movie a link.

2005-07-13 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: xhtml and cfform flash

2005-06-23 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

Re: Section 508 Compliance

2005-06-20 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Parsing a FlashPaper 2 (swf) file?

2005-06-17 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Cfform and iframe problem

2005-06-16 Thread John Dowdell
. 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

Re: ColdFusion Version historical timeline?

2005-06-15 Thread John Dowdell
/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

Re: ColdFusion Version historical timeline?

2005-06-15 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: flash platform

2005-06-09 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flash SEO

2005-06-01 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flash SEO

2005-06-01 Thread John Dowdell
-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=10search=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

Re: Regarding Java and .NET's incestuous ties, and Windows' future

2005-05-27 Thread John Dowdell
.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

Re: OT Checking for video plugins

2005-05-26 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

Re: Flash Form unclickable

2005-05-13 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and FlashLite?

2005-05-02 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: CFMX: Dissed by Breeze and FlashLite?

2005-05-02 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: SOT: Hiding a Flash Form

2005-04-26 Thread John Dowdell
. 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

Re: Dreamweaver Save Files

2005-04-22 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: streaming media comparison

2005-04-14 Thread John Dowdell
/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

Re: OT: Flash Banner Ads

2004-09-02 Thread John Dowdell
/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

Re: OT: Is the web broken?

2004-08-27 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: Convert .swf to .exe w/CF?

2004-08-11 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: Flash lists

2004-08-11 Thread John Dowdell
(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

Re: OT: Why is Flash so slow on OSX?

2004-08-09 Thread John Dowdell
first step. 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

Re: OT: Why is Flash so slow on OSX? OT

2004-08-09 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Mandarin... Internationalization, Localization

2004-08-03 Thread John Dowdell
are written, and both spoken and written forms of Chinese are in flux. Sorry I made the problem even harder, but ;-) 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

Re: SOT: Is this possible? was mediaPlayer

2004-07-20 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT/flash question

2004-07-16 Thread John Dowdell
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

fyi: Win XP SP2 RC available

2004-06-16 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Phone Number for Macromedia Contact (is: longer trial)

2004-06-04 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Any MM people here? (is: CF5/Ent-J for sale?)

2004-06-01 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: calling on Flash to create a file [OT]

2004-06-01 Thread John Dowdell
receives is another step beyond that. Testing whether your window names are as expected is a step beyond 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

Re: calling on Flash to create a file

2004-05-28 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Is it a bug or not a bug?

2004-04-22 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: Fireworks MX/data-driven graphics

2004-04-22 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Browser compatibility testing

2004-04-22 Thread John Dowdell
://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

RE: Flex again!

2004-04-15 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flex again! [way OT]

2004-04-15 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: SOT: Flash Remoting vs Web Services vs XML

2004-04-13 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Dreamweaver MX 6.1 oddity

2004-04-12 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flash 7 for Unix

2004-03-17 Thread John Dowdell
://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

Re: SOT: Laszio Presentation Server for RIA

2004-03-15 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: OT: Interesting article on Macromedia Central...

2004-03-03 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Fireworks JSAPI

2004-01-14 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flash Remoting with Blue Dragon

2004-01-12 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Flash Instant Messenger Software?

2003-12-08 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Looking Up Issues on MM Site

2003-12-01 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Anyone from Macromedia on this list, who could help me out.

2003-11-21 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Central app for MAX - useless? [OT]

2003-11-14 Thread John Dowdell
;-) 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

Re: Dreamweaver 2004 MX - Issues

2003-10-07 Thread John Dowdell
, 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

RE: FYI (is: Eolas patent)

2003-10-07 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: Dreamweaver 2004 MX - Issues

2003-10-07 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: No so good news (is: Eolas patent) [OT]

2003-09-12 Thread John Dowdell
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

Testing period for new Flash Player

2003-08-01 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: Anyone looked at MM Breeze?

2003-07-17 Thread John Dowdell
/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

Re: SOT Flash vs Java Applet to display streaming data

2003-06-16 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: Flash file access (was: mm site)

2003-03-14 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: [OT] Resizable Flash Ad

2003-01-29 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: OT: flash z-index

2003-01-29 Thread John Dowdell
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

Re: GoLive 6 to Dreamweaver MX

2003-01-21 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: BlueDragon J2EE on OSX - Working !!! [OT]

2003-01-09 Thread John Dowdell
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:

Re: BlueDragon J2EE on OSX - Working !!!

2003-01-09 Thread John Dowdell
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

RE: BlueDragon J2EE on OSX - Working !!!

2003-01-08 Thread John Dowdell
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

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