Thanks for all the research on this. Yes, browser compatibility is quite annoying.
I'll try to digest all this and see what I want to do ! Thanks again At 12:32 AM 6/12/02 -0400, Rob Romanek wrote: >There is a new version up. I've incorporated Robert's request for hiding >and moving. I have not thoroughly tested this on all major browsers but >it's a start for playing around with. Tonight I just ran it on windows on >IE 5.5 and NS 6. Interesting thing with the show hide code is that it >works on IE but not NS 6, although that same code will work on layers that >don't have shockwave in them. Movement is fine in both cases. > >I've also added a movie that tracks mouse events outside of the shockwave >movie and based on location will report on them. This could be used to >track whether a submit button has been clicked (assuming you could keep >relative location accurate across browsers) and if the submit button posts >data to your server the shockwave movie could then go and extract that >data and refresh its content without reloading as with the layered >approach. Yeah its a brutal hack but it could work. > >So looking at javascript to shockwave communication the approach might be >to sniff for the browser and use a different method based on the browser. > > >Browser OS Method >IE 4 and 5 Win EvalScript >IE 6 Win I haven't tested yet >NS 4 Win/Mac evalScript >NS 6 Win/Mac layered or external mouse tracking >IE 5 Mac layered or external mouse tracking > >Hope that helps you out, Tab. (don't you just hate browsers :-) > >Rob > >PS if anyone else has time to check this out on various browser >combinations I'd be interested in hearing your results. > > >Robert Tweed wrote: > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "Rob Romanek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>>http://www.manibus.com/testzone/writeShock/paramRefresh.htm >>> >>>This is the rewriting a layer approach. >>Just out of interest, have you tested that in all the major browsers? I >>don't have access to complete test facilities at the moment, so I can't do >>them all myself. Just curious to know if it works properly on them all, or >>if a few of them have problems. I'd also be interested to know if moving the >>layer containing the plugin, or changing the visibility works on all >>browsers too. I know it doesn't work with Java (except in IE on the PC), but >>I haven't tried it with Shockwave. >>- Robert > > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L >is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
