canvas
Greg Houston’s uber-cool MochaUI has led me to experiment with the canvas element the last few days. I first saw MochaUI sometime in 2007. While I was duly impressed, I couldn’t quite find a use for it and filed it away in my bottomless “play with this later”
A while back, I posted my method for defeating spambots that harvest email addresses. This post is an update to that original method. It explores cleaner, less obtrusive code approaches and more accessible/usable HTML markup. If you’re impatient and want to jump to some working examples, here you
Tips and Tricks
I recently emailed a shortlist of good SCORM development resources to a colleague, and figured I should probably post a list here, too. This is a quickie list, and I’m sure I’m leaving someone out. If you know of any resources I’ve missed, please add a link
How-to
Note: This entry was written in 2008, most guidance provided here is no longer relevant. As a web surfer I LOVE pop-up blockers. They keep my web surfing sane and somewhat clean (though there always seems to be a few Netflix pop-ups that get through the cracks). However, as an
course interface
Update 10/2010: A new working example with cleaned up code is available. About six weeks ago, I wrote a post about some issues I was encountering with iframes and cross-domain security. I promised I would write about whatever workaround I decided to use; this post details that workaround. Warning:
How-to
It’s almost the end of 2008, and thanks to the hard work of web standardistas, browser vendors, and JavaScript framework developers, cross-browser JavaScript code is much less of an issue than it used to be. Even Microsoft is feeling the love — the upcoming Internet Explorer 8 will be a
Apple
I had a hard time sorting this out, so I figured I’d post it in case anyone else needs to know. Assumptions: You have Parallels v4 for Mac, and have already created an Ubuntu 8.10 image. Instructions: 1. Launch your Ubuntu image (in window mode). 2. Go to
JavaScript
As alluded to in a previous post, I’ve whipped up a simple JavaScript utility to help you control your Captivate SWFs using JavaScript. Give it a spin. The biggest selling point for this utility is that it not only contains all of the built-in Captivate ‘variable’ functionality, but it
Adobe Captivate
Note: This post covers Captivate 2 & 3; Captivate 4 introduced new problems for JavaScript interaction. You can avoid the headache of writing your own code by using the free CaptivateController utility, which works with all versions of Captivate. JavaScript can control the playback of Captivate-generated SWFs. I posted some
Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate 3 doesn’t have a built-in mechanism for sending quiz results to JavaScript. Here’s a workaround you may find useful. The plan The basic premise of this workaround is to hijack Captivate’s ’email report’ functionality, replacing the original email-centered JavaScript with new JavaScript. This approach was
Adobe Flash
This question came in via email. I figured I would post it (keeping the author anonymous) because these are very common questions, and maybe this post can help other people out. I also want to give others the opportunity to throw in their 2 cents! The question(s): I am
accessibility
The talented Cameron Moll has posted a link to a Web Accessibility Checklist prepared by Aaron Cannon, a (blind) member of his web development team. Aaron’s checklist is an easy-to-understand list of accessibility _do_s and _don’t_s. Most of these are so simple and easy to implement