Re: HTML for Flash movies

[Christian Gayton]

Hello Ben,

I came from your site. Here is the situation for me (and i hope i'm alone).

Win95/NS4.03(fr) In my Windows95, .cgi files are defined to be opened by a text

editor (to work on). I never had problem with this configuration to visit sites

(using or not cgi files), but when i go to your, it trys to open pepper.cgi,

asks me if i want to open or save on disk. If i open it, my text editor opens

the file. If i save it, i save it and...

SO I CANNOT ENTER INTO YOUR SITE !

Sorry.

Christian


Ben Rogers a �crit:


> I should clarify...

>

> I was responding to mail sent by Tommy Rainwater about Aftershock and how

> slow it was.

>

> Here's the story:

>

> I found that Aftershock by itself did not allow me a complete solution to

> the plugin problem, though it does generate some useful javascript code... I

> used carefully selected & revised chunks of this code together with the

> "Smart Button" concept. I spent *hours* over it, trying to make a foolproof

> way to ensure that people who did not have the Flash plugin would be

> detected correctly & have the minimum hassle downloading it.

>

> The entire result worked perfectly, except that it was unacceptably slow. On

> accessing the first page, a grey page appeared for 20-30 seconds (with a

> 33600 connection ). I put this down to the fact that the browser had to call

> MM *as well as* our site -every time- regardless of whether the user had the

> plugin or not...

>

> Perhaps I should have been more specific and referred to the "Smart Button"

> aspect of things, which is where the holdup was caused; specifically,

> accessing MM... So apologies for that.

>

> My impatience comes from the fact that I feel that I have wasted a great

> deal of time, on and off, redoing the intro's for our Flashed sites purely

> because of the plugin problem... And then to feel mislead by MM over the

> "Smart Button" issue just sent me over the top.

>

> I now have a mainly home-grown system which seems to work well (using a mix

> of server-side perl, client-side javascript & a trick with a Flash movie)

>

> That said, I sincerely feel that Flash2 is the greatest single thing to

> happen to web site developers. Which is why I care so much about making sure

> technicalities don't get in the way for those who browse Flashed sites.

>

> I'm looking forward to Flash3...

>

> Ben Rogers

> Pepper Head Design (Hot Ideas) Ltd

> http://www.pepperhead.co.uk

>

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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: John Dowdell <jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com>

>

To: flashershocker [dot] com <flashershocker [dot] com>

> Date: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 11:30 PM

> Subject: Re: HTML for Flash movies

>

> >At 9:22 AM 2/17/98, Ben Rogers wrote:

> >>It *is* too slow...

> >>It's a bit much, IMNSHO, that MM did not warn of this when they

> >>enthusiastically announced these two methods.

> >

> >

> >What, specifically, is slow for you?

> >

> >Is it the browser detection? The browser dynamic writes? The retrieval of

> >the external .JS archive for implementation? Is it the actual one-time

> >process of creating the HTML?

> >

> >Right now I'm not well able to scan the comment... what specific piece of

> >the process do you find slower than what you expect?

> >

> >jd

> >

> >

> >John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US

> >

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> >Cross-browser scripting resources: http://www.dhtmlzone.com/

> >

> >

> >



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