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Introducing LearnSWFObject.com

I’m happy to introduce you to my latest project, LearnSWFObject.com

Eolas is at it again

This week — a year and a half after settling with Microsoft — Eolas has gone on the attack again, filing suit against “Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Argosy Publishing (publisher of The Visible Body), Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, GoDaddy, J. C. Penney, JPMorgan Chase, ‘transactional’ adult entertainment provider New Frontier Media, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Rent-a-Center, Staples, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yahoo, and YouTube.”

The pipwerks forum is dead, long live the new eLearning Technology and Development Google Group!

I’d like to say thank you to all the people who posted in the pipwerks forum, and invite you to join me in the new eLearning Technology and Development group.

I’d also like to ask anyone and everyone who develops e-learning to drop by and sign up for the eLearning Technology and Development group. Ask questions — lots of questions — and let’s see if we can get a good community going!

SWFObject.js finds a home on Google servers

Cool news for SWFObject users: the swfobject.js file is now being hosted on Google’s servers as part of the AJAX Libraries API. This means you can directly link to the file on a Google server instead of maintaining a copy on your own server.

Introducing PDFObject

I recently worked on an e-learning course that required embedding some PDFs into an HTML file. PDF embedding piqued my curiosity, and has become something of a pet project. I decided it would be nice to have a JavaScript script that could dynamically embed PDFs as easily as SWFObject allows SWF embedding. I managed to whip up a script, and decided to name it PDFObject. (I know, I know… what a creative name!) As you may have inferred from the name, the concept and functionality is pretty similar to SWFObject.

SWFObject example links fixed

When I recently reorganized my SWFObject examples (adding a bunch of SWFObject 2.0 examples), a few links were accidentally hosed. Links fixed. Sorry ’bout that.
There are now over 30 examples using over 50 files, and I just tested each and every one of them to ensure they work.
(Thanks to [...]

More SWFObject 2.0 examples

I just posted a few more SWFObject 2.0 examples:

Plain-vanilla SWF embedding using SWFObject 2.0
Using SWFObject 2.0 with ExternalInterface
Determining whether a SWF was successfully embedded (returning a boolean in JavaScript)
Using SWFObject with an ‘onclick’ event

The SWFObject examples list is located at http://pipwerks.com/lab/swfobject/index.html

SWFObject examples have been updated

Just an FYI: The SWFObject section of my site has been updated with SWFObject 2.0 examples, including:

Using SWFObject with ajax (xmlhttprequest)
Using ExpressInstall
Toggling a SWF’s visibility
Passing querystrings to a SWF using PHP
Setting the z-index and wmode (allowing page elements to overlap the Flash SWF)

SWFObject has two publishing options: static publishing and dynamic publishing. I’m happy [...]

SWFObject is officially at 2.0

Geoff Stearns and Bobby van der Sluis have finalized SWFObject 2.0. It is no longer beta, and SWFObject 1.5 is now considered deprecated.

New: SWFObject examples page

I decided to create a guide for the examples, which gives a little bit of background for each example as well as the URL for each example. http://www.pipwerks.com/lab/swfobject/