Re: FLASH: Dreamweaver Integration - question/problem

[John Dowdell]

At 5:27 AM 10/5/0, Jefferis Peterson wrote:

> FYI:  I tried installing the new Flash 5 resources into MAC DW 3

> and DW became totally unusuable.


This is more a Dreamweaver issue, if anything. I'm not sure how it's not

unusable and so can't usefully advise, sorry. For "Does it work for other

people?" then yup.



> I am trying to understand how the templates in Flash for banner

> creation differ from the regular Flash with JS detection schemes

> in the Publish option. Is there anything different in the code?


Yes, you can open the Publish templates in Macromedia Flash, and examine or

edit the HTML and JavaScript yourself. (I'd recommend keeping a backup!)

There's a summary of each option in the Publish dialog itself.



> I know that the detection scripts fail on IE Mac, [and windows? ]


Detection scripts don't really "fail"... it's just that versions of IE/Mac

prior to the latest will not reveal what plugins the browser has. Most

scripts assume that no response means they're not installed, but you can

certainly choose a different strategy with the lack of response that

browser gives you.



> I CHECKED for MM tutorials and couldn't find anything in

> the Technotes through a search.


I'm not sure what you're searching for, but if it's "Do all the browsers

tell JavaScript what they can do?" then sorry, no... there are many

browsers and they each have their own edge cases.


For "What's the strongest detection you've seen?" then the new Flash

Deployment Kit is good, because it handles all JavaScript cases and also

includes my old "make the plugin jump" technique with a dummy SWF... it's

all packaged up on the site.


If I were designing a banner for a mass audience, though, then I'd probably

just publish a SWF4 file and scratch any lengthy detection routines... any

site that permits rich ads would likely have a demographic that matches net

norms.



jd






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