Thank you, Josh, isaac and Will, Yeah, javascript approach would be more efficient performance-wise, and yet as issac so elegantly put it, Flash or Flex or Air as Will pointed out, would be more appealing. My limited experience with Flex suggests that its loading is just too slow or because as a Flex beginner I did not do it right... I'll explore the whole thing further...
Don >I'm fond of the notion of a .swf to handle this sort of thing myself. >You might have to use the Eolas workaround hack for right now to make it >work properly in IE although I heard that's supposed to end soon. I say >swf because it seems like you might be able to get the functionality >irrespective of JavaScript working on their browser - that's one bonus - >another bonus is I think it gives you an opportunity to create a more >graceful message than the standard javascript alert dialog. > >My inclination at least for starters is to provide a much more friendly >sound! The default alert sound in the browser is rather harsh and so I >try when possible to avoid making people listen to it. With the .swf you >can provide something that will produce a more positive response, >possibly even a recorded voice message like AOL's old "you've got mail" >sound if you want to go that route. And then I'd just make the visual >portion of the flash movie transparent until there's an alert and then >when there's an alert display the short-title of the alert and let them >click it if they need more info. > >I think all of this can technically also be done in JavaScript, though >my gut says Flash... I just can't quantify any specific reason for it >other than that I believe it will work without JavaScript enabled >(unless you need the Eolas hack for now). > > >-- >s. isaac dealey ^ new epoch > isn't it time for a change? > ph: 503.236.3691 > >http://onTap.riaforge.org/blog ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298606 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
