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Introducing the CaptivateController

This post has been updated to reflect changes to the CaptivateController since its initial release It took me much much longer than I anticipated, but I am happy to announce the new CaptivateController utility. The CaptivateController is a JavaScript utility that helps you control Captivate SWFs as well as get/

Captivate 4 variables gone wild

Update (August 2010): I have published a new list of Captivate variables that are specific to Adobe Captivate 5. Check it out. The folks at Adobe recently published a list of Captivate 4 variables. While it’s a solid list, it’s not really a complete list. Here is a

Gotchas in Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is at Release Candidate 1, which means it will be released very shortly. IE8 is a brand-new browser and will represent a considerable shift from IE7/IE6; it will follow standards more closely and will offer much improved CSS 2.1 support. However, because of some

Lazy loading excanvas.js

excanvas.js is a script that enables developers to use the canvas element in Internet Explorer; since IE doesn’t support canvas or the canvas API, the excanvas script converts (most) canvas commands to Vector Markup Language (VML), the only vector rendering language supported natively in Internet Explorer. excanvas is

Font replacement techniques

Like many other web professionals, I’m tired of the limited font set we have to work with. Gee, should I use Verdana on this site or Georgia? Maybe Arial? Meh. Bor-ing. The merits and legal implications of CSS3’s proposed @font-face are being hotly debated, which means the proposal

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