[thelist] Ideas

Tue Jul 12 03:53:17 CDT 2005

just a fix

if(!g_blnPageLoaded) {
   setTimeout("revealPage()",500);
   return;
}

the method has to return obviously if page has not loaded completely.

On 7/12/05, VOLKAN ÖZÇELİK <volkan.ozcelik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We created a
> > simple flash splash screen which showed a book having it's front cover
> > ripping away, and then redirecting to the HTML site, however they're not
> > happy with that.
> 
> Just to agree on the concept: Are they not happy with the redirect, or
> redirect is okay but they are not happy with the non-flash content? I
> think they don't like
> the redirect and loading of the new page plus staring at the blank white screen
> for a few seconds during the transition.
> 
> > My only thought at the moment is to have a pure Flash
> > presentation layer created which will use the CMS produced XML to
> > display the site.  However I'm not certain how well Flash will display
> > HTML markup?
> 
> AFAIK, flash is not very good (even you may say poor) at displaying HTML markup.
> 
> > I did think about having an iFrame hidden beneath a flash object, which
> > would then be made visible using javascript, but I didn't know how well
> > this would work.
> 
> This may lead to synchronization problems to solve. What if flash
> loads but iframe has not finished loading yet and the user waits for
> the iframe to load. You need to listen to the iframe's onload,
> onreadystate whatsoever.
> 
> If I got you correct you use some sort of XSL Transformation to turn
> your XML to HTML markup. If that't the case here is my solution:
> 
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="page.js"></script>
> </head>
> <body>
>    <div id="EmbeddedFlashObject">
>      ... flash intro goes here.
>    </div>
>    <div id="PageContent" style="display:none">
>    ... the rest of the page goes here.
>    </div>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> ___ page.js ___
> var g_blnPageLoaded = false;
> window.onload = function() {
>  g_blnPageLoaded = true;
> };
> function revealPage() {
>  if(!g_blnPageLoaded) {
>    setTimeout("revealPage()",500);
>  }
> 
>  document.getElementById("EmbeddedFlashObject").style.display = "none";
>  document.getElementById("PageContent").style.display = "block";
> }
> 
> ___
> 
> The revealPage method may be called from the flash object after the intro
> ends.
> 
> Actually, after re-thinking guess it may be adjusted for the IFRAME
> case as well.
> But a non-frame solution would be my preference whenever possible.
> (frames are yet another concept that I say "No! Hell no!".)
> 
> Plus, I did not consider the noscript case. If js is not available the
> same content
> should be provided to the user with a hyperlink and an explanatory message.
> 
> HTH,
> Volkan.
>