web production

I know we have aimed at designing for an 800×600 browser previously. For the midterm though, I was hoping designing for a 1024×768 browser–since that’s what I’ve done. I wanted my “talk bubbles” be big and bold, and trying to get them fit the 800×600 made them too sleek looking… Hope that’s ok?!

So i have some flash animations i might want to include in my project. Anyone know how i can embed it without having it up somewhere in a host website like a youtube video?

Is there a way to embed a video into a page which is already a YouTube video, not an original video?

Ok so i installed Jedit at home but it looks kinda weird. I got used to it the way it looks at school but i cant remember what we did in order for it to look the way it does… Does anyone remember the steps we took and the pluggins we used?

Since we looked briefly at image sprites today I thought it would be useful to follow up with a link to a Smashing Magazine article that lists a number of quality tutorials and articles on the subject.

Can someone update me on what we need for next class? I was out sick so I couldn’t make it.

Thanks!

I mentioned on Tuesday that I would post a simple howto describing how one might embed a quicktime movie and control its playing by hovering over it. It turns out that the current firefox implementation of the quicktime plugin is a little buggy. So I’m recommending the following:

• Don’t use the object tag
• Only use the embed tag
• Don’t use the “scale” attribute in the embed tag

I have an example here to demonstrate. If you look at the source code you will also see the attributes onmouseover and onmouseout. These are what you call “event handlers”. Event handlers handle “events” such as when you mouse over an element or when you move your mouse away from that element. In the example I’m executing the code this.Play() when I mouse over the movie and this.Stop() when I move my mouse off the movie. Neat.

Internet Explorer and the ActiveX Problem

If you load the example page in Internet Explorer you will notice that you have to either click the movie or push the spacebar before you can play it. The introduction of this “feature” was, I believe, a way for Microsoft to get out of a lawsuit. Anyway, it hurts user experience. Who wants to have to “activate” the media on the page before you experience it? There are ways to get around this using javacript but they fall outside the purview of this course (Though I’m not against explaining it in class if people show interest).

*Note this isn’t an issue if you use Objecty! which works around the “click to activate” problem.

Either way, this is a bit of work just to embed a video. What are some other options? I would recommend uploading videos to youtube and then using the code they furnish for embedding the video on a webpage under “embed”. The quality is quite good at this point and google’s resources far outweigh our own.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/10/decarava.html?ps=rs