Archive for the ‘web design and development’ Category
Flash support is increasingly a minefield
Posted Wednesday, March 13th, 2013.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe, Adobe Flash, Flash Player, opinion, web browsers, web design and development
Back in 2011, I mentioned that Microsoft was about to halt development of the Silverlight plugin, that Flash mobile was being discontinued, and that Adobe recommended HTML5 for enterprise RIA development instead of Flex, which was being open-sourced. My post was a little long-winded, but the short version was: whoa, the times-are-a-changin’, it’s getting dangerous to [...]
Introducing SWFRightClick
Posted Tuesday, February 28th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, JavaScript with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Adobe Flash, e-learning, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies
Adobe Captivate currently ships with a 3rd-party JavaScript utility named RightClick.js, which enables the Captivate SWF to detect when a user right-clicks the SWF. While upgrading the Captivate publishing templates, I realized RightClick.js wasn’t built to work with SWFObject 2.x and suffered from a few shortcomings. I modified the Captivate template’s SWFObject code to get [...]
HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and your courseware
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe Flash, e-learning, HTML 5, opinion, silverlight
What a busy week. Flash is dead. Sort of, but not really. In case you haven’t heard, Adobe formally announced the discontinuation of Flash Player for mobile devices (“Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5“). Adobe employees struggled to come to grips with what has undoubtedly [...]
CaptivateController Updated to Support Setting Variable Values
Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, JavaScript with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController, e-learning, GitHub, JavaScript
The pipwerks CaptivateController now includes a set method that enables developers to set a Captivate variable’s value using JavaScript.
Lion Server compared to Snow Leopard Server
Posted Friday, October 14th, 2011.
Filed under web design and development with the tags Apple, Apple Mac, Apple Mac Mini Server, Lion Server, opinion, Snow Leopard Server
Comparing my recent experience with Lion Server to my experience with Snow Leopard Server.
EasyCaptions and CaptivateController JavaScript Libraries now on GitHub
Posted Thursday, September 29th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags accessibility, Adobe Captivate, CaptivateController, EasyCaptions, GitHub, JavaScript
I’ve posted the source code for my EasyCaptions and CaptivateController JavaScript libraries to GitHub. Both are released under an MIT license and are free to use. Now that they’re on GitHub, if you have ideas for new features or suggestions for improvements, feel free to fork!
EasyCaptions on GitHub
CaptivateController on GitHub
Using the object element to dynamically embed Flash SWFs in Internet Explorer
Posted Monday, May 30th, 2011.
Filed under General, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, standards, SWFObject, web design and development
This is a journey into the madness of Internet Explorer. Yes, there is a happy ending.
Sniffing Internet Explorer via JavaScript
Posted Wednesday, May 18th, 2011.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, SWFObject, web browsers, web design and development
I’ve been reviewing bug submissions for the SWFObject project and was reminded of a big problem with SWFObject 2.2: the JavaScript technique it uses for detecting Internet Explorer does not work in Internet Explorer 9.
PDFObject Updated, Moved to GitHub
Posted Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies, PDFObject, web design and development
Three years have passed since PDFObject 1.0 was released, and the browser landscape has changed dramatically. I figured it’s time to dust off PDFObject and see if it can be improved and/or updated for today’s browsers.
IFrames and cross-domain security, part 3
Posted Sunday, October 17th, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, web design and development with the tags How-to, JavaScript, web design and development
In 2008 I posted a quick writeup on how I dealt with cross-domain security issues for some of my e-learning courseware. Since then, I’ve had a lot of people contact me with various questions and for example files. Tonight I decided to revisit the topic and whip up some quick example files.
