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Fun with DHTML and Flash

Travis Beckham’s podLob features 56 experiments in Flash and 19 in Javascript/DHTML. I particularly liked the Flash image transitions. I’d probably complain bitterly I came across that kind of effect on a real site but as experiments they’re fascinating and great fun to explore.

Posted 20th October 2003 at 5:20 am

This is Fun with DHTML and Flash by Simon Willison, posted on 20th October 2003.

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  1. Just letting you know, in Firebird (latest nighly for windows) clicking the scroll wheel on a link brings up the autoscrolling thingamabob instead of opening the link in a new tab. Your site is the only one I'm having this problem with.

    Travis - 20th October 2003 22:09 - #

  2. Aah thanks - I'd noticed that, but I haven't spotted that it was only happening on this site. Bugzilla bug 220756 seems to have it covered.

    Simon Willison - 20th October 2003 22:25 - #

  3. "Aah thanks - I'd noticed that, but I haven't spotted that it was only happening on this site."

    I've noticed it too and it effects all sites that are served with a MIME type of: application/xhtml+xml. This appears to be a regression as it was temporarily fixed in Firebird 0.61, I believe. Turning off Autoscrolling altogether will fix the problem, but that's hardly a solution.

    Btw, really neat: http://www.podlob.com/dhtml/podscroll/final.html

    MikeyC - 20th October 2003 23:38 - #

  4. That div scroller on podLob is my older version. Here's a better one.

    travis - 22nd October 2003 01:23 - #

  5. "That div scroller on podLob is my older version. Here's a better one."

    Very nice. My only quibble is that if you were to use CSS to set background images for the divs instead of using <img> tags inside the divs, it might degrade a bit nicer in CSS-unaware browsers.

    However, there could very well be technical reasons that require the <img> tags be present that I have overlooked. Can you speak to this? I'll probably deconstruct it myself anyways but best to hear from the author first.

    MikeyC - 22nd October 2003 03:10 - #

  6. travis: My main complaint is that all your links are JS popups. When I get to a page with that many links, I want to open them all in tabs with middle-clicking. You might want to change them to links with onclick="return false; window.open...", sorta like MT's "Comments (x)" ones. (See my site for an example.)

    Joe Grossberg - 22nd October 2003 21:51 - #

  7. Actually, make that two: please consider releasing the source code to the Flash movies. Your JS code is beautifully open; why not do the same with your ActionScript?

    Joe Grossberg - 22nd October 2003 22:14 - #

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