'sharrison' = 'Sean Harrison'. :) Glad this list is still around!
-S On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:55 PM, Peyton Todd <peytont...@att.net> wrote: > First, my thanks to everyone for the help so far... > > Your answers have shown me that attempts to suppress the location bar in > HTML windows, even when feasible, are swimming upstream against a strong > current, so are best avoided. > > The 'brainjar' code suggested by sharrison (Steve? Sam?) works > beautifully! Just about all I had to do was download the GIF images for > the window buttons, and put a <video> tag containing one of my videos > inside the 'client area' of one of the windows. If you'd like to see it, > download the folder at the Dropbox link below and run vindemo.html. Then > click on Window 1, which is where I put my <video> tag. > > Vindemo > <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2b643nmwt8hv2rd/AAA7pzIKNTTnr8jhnfSqYbjLa?dl=0> > > > [image: image] > <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2b643nmwt8hv2rd/AAA7pzIKNTTnr8jhnfSqYbjLa?dl=0> > > > > > > Vindemo > <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2b643nmwt8hv2rd/AAA7pzIKNTTnr8jhnfSqYbjLa?dl=0> > Shared with Dropbox > View on www.dropbox.com > <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2b643nmwt8hv2rd/AAA7pzIKNTTnr8jhnfSqYbjLa?dl=0> > Preview by Yahoo > > > Getting all my little icons and descriptions to take the place of the > existing "Window 1 - Window 2 - Window 3" interface may be a fairly big > job, though, since they vary a lot in which icons and how many, and in > various font changes within the descriptions. So I'll be looking into ways > to streamline it. > > I'll also look into "dialogs" as an alternative. > > On balance, though, although I like the look of this HTML+Javascript > interface much better than the one using PDFs (which overwrites my > sub-titles among other problems), I have hundreds of these little documents > to prepare, and if I cannot streamline the process just mentioned, I may > have to go with the PDF approach after all, since it will combine the > WYSIWYG capabilities of Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat to make each one > go much quicker. > > So I'll be looking into the 'security hole' issue I described earlier. As > to that, Dawn, the problem is not so much with Acrobat itself as with > Acrobat *Reader*, since that's what would play the media for end users. > Adobe has already pulled the rug out from under me once due to security > considerations (the dangers of legacy media). It's not that I need the > media to be file-type agnostic for its own sake, but rather that the > strange restriction of choices presented by the Sound Tool vs. Button > interfaces are a red flag suggesting that the current capacities my not > last forever. To repeat: even though PDFs will be around forever, that > doesn't mean that what Adobe permits one to do with them will be - as my > earlier experience has painfully showed me! > > I'll let you know how it works out. > > Peyton > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Arun Nallan <arun.nal...@gmail.com> > *To:* discussion@acfug.org; Peyton Todd <peytont...@att.net> > *Sent:* Friday, September 9, 2016 10:47 PM > *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Can I Remove the URL from Child Windows? > > Peyton, > > Don't think these days there is a way to do that. Due to security, they > had disabled it. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15926105/hiding-the- > address-bar-of-a-browser has answered it > > Unfortunately, you have to rely on JavaScript/ CSS way of managing the DIV > tags hide/ show --> Also, may have to make an AJAX call to the video HTML > and render the response in the DIV. But this is not the way you want the > solution to be - Not sure what other workarounds are available. > > > > > Thanks, > Arun Nallan > > > 409 363 0587 > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Peyton Todd <peytont...@att.net> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I, too, am glad to know this list still exists, since I have a question. > To identify myself briefly, I’m a former member of the group, now retired, > so I no longer write Cold Fusion code. My question concerns a research > project that I presented to the group a few years ago, when members were > asked to describe their work regardless of its relevance to Cold Fusion. > The project is about the speech of a hearing child of deaf parents, and I’m > hoping one of you with knowledge of HTML and Javascript can help me choose > between two ways of presenting the data. > > I apologize for the great detail of this post, but I can get to my > question right away before going into all that detail: > > *Does anyone know how to make the URL disappear in a child HTML window? If > not, then is there some other simple way to get the effect I want?* > > Apparently the standard way would have been to set location=no when > specifying the parameters to the window.open command. But that doesn’t > work, and I remember reading somewhere that the W3C has decided to disable > it. Is there some other way to make the URL disappear? Or maybe an > alternate way to get a child window? (I thought of having DIVs that are set > display=block or display=none, but apparently the user would not be able to > move them around on the screen (No doubt it could be done via buttons that > reset their left and top properties, but that would not be simple to > program, and I need the ability for multiple windows to be open at the same > time, which would make it even more complicated.) > > Admittedly this has only to do with aesthetics, but I want it to be as > pretty as possible! > > To see what I have so far, please download the little folder at the > Dropbox link below, and click on “testvideotag.htm” to test it. (It works > in chrome, firefox, opera, and safari, but not in internet explorer.) > > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ x8guh0m7ll5hrr8/ AAAJkZjCRKMv7XSKrL2SGF7sa?dl=0 > <https://www.dropbox.com/sh/x8guh0m7ll5hrr8/AAAJkZjCRKMv7XSKrL2SGF7sa?dl=0> > > The other approach I’m investigating may not tap the expertise of most > ACFUG participants, but I’ll present it in case anyone has a suggestion. It > uses PDFs, and if you want to see what it looks like you could download the > little PDF at this other Dropbox link and run it (“PDF Version.pdf”): > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/ 9ghu3l5fkfj2t7i/PDF%20Version. pdf?dl=0 > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ghu3l5fkfj2t7i/PDF%20Version.pdf?dl=0> > > The PDF version doesn’t display the ugly URL, of course, but my fear is > that Adobe will disable my PDF solution some day – a matter I’ll probably > have to check with Acrobat experts about, but in case anyone has ideas > about it please let me know. > > When I describe my PDF solution, you’ll see why I fear Adobe will disable > it: I like my interface the way it is: little icons that don’t take up > screen space the way opening video inside the page would (there will be > many hundreds of these!). And I like my audio icons the way I have them, > too. If I attach MP3 (i.e. H264) audio to an icon via the sound tool (as in > the leftmost ‘speaker’ icon in my PDF), it plays, but then the standard > Acrobat audio interfaces jumps in and takes over the icon – too small to be > operative. > > If I attach the audio it to a button-icon instead, then everything works > perfectly (as in the rightmost ‘speaker’ icon). But here’s what makes me > think Abobe would some day pull the rug out from under me: with the sound > tool, one is forced to use H.264 (a WAV file is legacy, and leads to the > ‘Do you trust this?’ warning – painful when one must open hundreds of these > little PDFs. And the legacy method is now blocked over the internet > anyway). > > But if I attach sound to a button, only WAV files seem available as a > choice. Remarkably, MP3s are not available for choosing even though they’re > in the same folder as the WAV file. So if WAV files are a security hole > when using the sound tool (forcing one to use H/264 like MP3), why would > they not be when attached to a button? And if they are, then Adobe will > discover the problem and fix it some day, thus disabling the many hundreds > of PDFs I will have prepared by then! > > I should mention that I have Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, from which no upgrade > path is available. To buy a new Acrobat Pro DC costs $449. > > Thanks so much for any help you can provide! > > > > >
