e-learning
Update: A few months after writing this journal entry, I developed SCORM class files for ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3 (both require ExternalInterface). Check them out here. For the last week, I’ve been doggedly attempting to create a hybrid of Flash-to-JavaScript communication techniques for creating cross-browser SCORM-conformant courses that
Tools
You might be looking at the title of this entry and say “Well, DUH! JavaScript’s prompt() is already cross-browser!” While working on a project earlier today, I discovered a nasty little problem… Internet Explorer v7 (IE7) disables prompt() by default! This means you can’t rely on prompt() being
ramblings
Captivate SWFs can communicate with the host HTML file via JavaScript, but the scripting options suffer from severe limitations imposed by the Captivate authoring environment. For starters, this communication is (generally) a one-way street: the JavaScript goes out of Captivate to the HTML file, but the JavaScript in the HTML
Tutorials
Note: This post contains old code. Read about the updated code at https://pipwerks.com/2009/02/01/obfuscating-email-addresses-revisited/ Everyone knows the story: an innocent email address is posted online and a big bad spambot finds it, relaying it to every spammer on the face of the earth… the email
ramblings
Having just finished my Making Actionscript calls from Adobe Captivate tutorial, I’ve been looking at Captivate 2.0 a lot the last few days. Specifically, I’ve been looking for ways to use JavaScript in Captivate. I’m a bit disappointed to report that JavaScript can only be used
firefox
today i learned about chris pederick’s ultra-handy Web Developer Extension for Firefox. yeah yeah yeah, i know it’s been around for a while, but i never TRIED it until today. i wish i had tried it sooner! among its many features is the ability to toggle outlines on