Whew! It’s been a little while since my last visit. How are things in Kirupa land?
I have a question. I’m not really much of a whiz on the html side (or any side for that matter - I’m just learning like everyone else), and I’d like to ask for some tips preventing bookmarking a particular section of my site.
One of the sections is programmed to play a new video every day. Obviously, it was done in MX but the main site is Flash 5. So, the video section plays in a small popup window.
It turns out that people really like the feature! Good news there. The bad news is that the link to the feature is spreading over the internet, rather than the link to the main site. It’s the highest bandwidth section, but apart from that, people may be missing other things the members of the site team are putting together.
Can anyone recommend a strategy for preventing the bookmarking of the popup? I want to welcome visitors, but to the site as a whole rather than a small portion.
Sorry for the long post. I hope someone has a few tips for me.
OK, that’s what I thought. Thanks for your comment though.
Someday, I suppose I’ll rework the entire main site to MX, but for now, I still want people with only the Flash 5 player to see most of the site.
Flash 6 player testing was a big part of the popup dhtml - Mr. Moock’s wonderful javascript. People had trouble with loading it (I’m sure it was entirely my own fault in implementing the code) so I have since discarded that. I suppose I could change the Flash 5 movie to attempt a load of the video player - it will either work for the visitor or it won’t - but that doesn’t seem like a good solution to me.
So I’m back to my original question I guess. Thanks again!
i bet that if you post this question, or better yet: ask to a mod to move this thread to the Server-Side/Scripting section, you´ll have more luck getting an answer to your question
I’m not certain, but couldn’t you check the link origin when the popup starts? If it isn’t from your own link inside your own site, then you could send them to the …/index.html for you main site page.
I’m not certain of the HTML, but I think this would work. HTML isn’t my specialty, either.
Thanks guys. Of course, whichever forum would be best is fine with me! If a mod reads this, feel free to do what you think - I don’t want to post again to avoid cross-posting.
I think the html trick would be great and is exactly what I think may be needed. I’ll look into some web searches this weekend and appreciate the pointer in the right direction.
Flash 6 player has an over 70% saturation rate, currently… It will be virtually “everywhere” very soon. You can also put a detect script in the popup (if poss. avoid these), that will check for the correct player at that time…
70% already? Wow, that’s impressive after a year. It amazes me how fast the net changes, it really does.
Thanks for the tips, Rev. I did have the detection script in the popup html (Colin Moock’s script) but it didn’t load up the feature for a small percentage of folks out there - even when they had flash 6 installed for sure. Dunno why - I didn’t have the time then to mess with the script so I just canned it.
At 70% maybe it is time to bite the bullet and publish the whole site in MX. It would sure make life easier all around.
Of course, whichever forum would be best is fine with me! If a mod reads this, feel free to do what you think - I don’t want to post again to avoid cross-posting.
