Greetings.
BACKGROUND:
My sites are pure XHTML 1.1 with CSS 2.1 for markup. My pages are
delivered as application/xhtml+xml for all non-MS web clients, and as
text/xml for all MS web clients (Internet Explorer).
My flash content was originally brought in via the “flash satay” method,
but I have since used some server-side magic do deliver one <objecttag
for IE and another <objecttag for non-IE clients. That way, IE gets
its codebase and classid attributes, which would cause any non-IE client
to ignore the object element entirely.
PROBLEM:
My problem now is with printing. I can’t for the life of me figure out
how to get browsers to IGNORE the object element when printing - so that
they grab the alternative content inside of the object element instead.
You see, inside of my object element is a very nicely formatted header
element (h1 to be exact), and I want this to appear when printing, but
not in any other case. I also want this to appear when the object tag
fails (for example, when someone does not have Flash installed).
I would normally consider using SWFObject, but it does not make use of
standards-compliant JavaScript (it uses document.write), and therefore
will break when pages make use of the application/xhtml+xml mime type.
In addition, it craps out when people fail to have JS turned on, or
whose browsers (cellphones, handhelds) do not make use of JS. My sites
are meant to be fully compatible and accessible! I am not looking to
have content created by JS!
IMPORTANT:
Please understand, I am looking for a way, during printing, for the
printer to ignore the object element itself in favour of the h1 element
that exists inside the object element. This h1 element exists inside the
object element because it is the “graceful degradation” content for
anyone without Flash (or the correct version of Flash). I am not willing
to entertain any other arrangement of elements (or element creation via
JavaScript) unless it is equally as backward-compatible, elegant and
standards-compliant. Preferably, I am looking for a CSS solution.
TIA.
...Geshel
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On Mar 15, 7:00 pm, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
Greetings.
BACKGROUND:
My sites are pure XHTML 1.1 with CSS 2.1 for markup. My pages are
delivered as application/xhtml+xml for all non-MS web clients, and as
text/xml for all MS web clients (Internet Explorer).
My flash content was originally brought in via the "flash satay" method,
but I have since used some server-side magic do deliver one <objecttag
for IE and another <objecttag for non-IE clients. That way, IE gets
its codebase and classid attributes, which would cause any non-IE client
to ignore the object element entirely.
PROBLEM:
My problem now is with printing. I can't for the life of me figure out
how to get browsers to IGNORE the object element when printing - so that
they grab the alternative content inside of the object element instead.
You see, inside of my object element is a very nicely formatted header
element (h1 to be exact), and I want this to appear when printing, but
not in any other case. I also want this to appear when the object tag
fails (for example, when someone does not have Flash installed).
I would normally consider using SWFObject, but it does not make use of
standards-compliant JavaScript (it uses document.write), and therefore
will break when pages make use of the application/xhtml+xml mime type.
In addition, it craps out when people fail to have JS turned on, or
whose browsers (cellphones, handhelds) do not make use of JS. My sites
are meant to be fully compatible and accessible! I am not looking to
have content created by JS!
IMPORTANT:
Please understand, I am looking for a way, during printing, for the
printer to ignore the object element itself in favour of the h1 element
that exists inside the object element. This h1 element exists inside the
object element because it is the "graceful degradation" content for
anyone without Flash (or the correct version of Flash). I am not willing
to entertain any other arrangement of elements (or element creation via
JavaScript) unless it is equally as backward-compatible, elegant and
standards-compliant. Preferably, I am looking for a CSS solution.
TIA.
...Geshel
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It is very difficult to respond to you without the source code
available to view. However, since I have a working flash page up that
is at the xhtml 1.1 level, I will point you to it so that you can see
if anything there will help you. The page is at http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV.php . The source code
you get will be xhtml 1.1 for browsers such as recent Firefox, Opera,
Seamonkey, and Mozilla that say they will at least accept 1.1 in the
header exchange. The page is served as html 4.01 strict to other
browsers, some of which might support xhtml 1.1, but do not say so in
the header exchange. The IE browsers get served html 4.01, for
example.
Microsoft conditional comments are used to route to one object path
for IE and close relatives such as MSN and ATT/Yahoo DSL browsers.
Thus you can make each path completely different if you wish, and you
do not have to use script to do so. It is up to you to see if this
approach might help with your printer problem.
Please note the high resolution video is designed for DSL. A loading
status bar built into the control bar generated when coding the swf
and flv files shows download progress. Also the swf file is rather
small as it is just a container file that generates controls etc. The
actual video is a separate swf which is large. This is the modern
method for using flash video and is now heavily used for videos by
Google, YouTube, MySpace, and several news sites.
On Mar 15, 9:04 pm, "cwdjrxyz" <spamtr...@cwdjr.infowrote:
>The actual video is a separate swf which is large. This is the modern
method for using flash video and is now heavily used for videos by
Google, YouTube, MySpace, and several news sites.
Correction: The actual video is a separate flv (flash video) file,
which is large.
On Mar 15, 9:04 pm, "cwdjrxyz" <spamtr...@cwdjr.infowrote:
On Mar 15, 7:00 pm, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
Greetings.
BACKGROUND:
My sites are pure XHTML 1.1 with CSS 2.1 for markup. My pages are
delivered as application/xhtml+xml for all non-MS web clients, and as
text/xml for all MS web clients (Internet Explorer).
My flash content was originally brought in via the "flash satay" method,
but I have since used some server-side magic do deliver one <objecttag
for IE and another <objecttag for non-IE clients. That way, IE gets
its codebase and classid attributes, which would cause any non-IE client
to ignore the object element entirely.
PROBLEM:
My problem now is with printing. I can't for the life of me figure out
how to get browsers to IGNORE the object element when printing - so that
they grab the alternative content inside of the object element instead.
You see, inside of my object element is a very nicely formatted header
element (h1 to be exact), and I want this to appear when printing, but
not in any other case. I also want this to appear when the object tag
fails (for example, when someone does not have Flash installed).
I would normally consider using SWFObject, but it does not make use of
standards-compliant JavaScript (it uses document.write), and therefore
will break when pages make use of the application/xhtml+xml mime type.
In addition, it craps out when people fail to have JS turned on, or
whose browsers (cellphones, handhelds) do not make use of JS. My sites
are meant to be fully compatible and accessible! I am not looking to
have content created by JS!
IMPORTANT:
Please understand, I am looking for a way, during printing, for the
printer to ignore the object element itself in favour of the h1 element
that exists inside the object element. This h1 element exists inside the
object element because it is the "graceful degradation" content for
anyone without Flash (or the correct version of Flash). I am not willing
to entertain any other arrangement of elements (or element creation via
JavaScript) unless it is equally as backward-compatible, elegant and
standards-compliant. Preferably, I am looking for a CSS solution.
TIA.
...Geshel
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It is very difficult to respond to you without the source code
available to view. However, since I have a working flash page up that
is at the xhtml 1.1 level, I will point you to it so that you can see
if anything there will help you. The page is athttp://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV.php. The source code
you get will be xhtml 1.1 for browsers such as recent Firefox, Opera,
Seamonkey, and Mozilla that say they will at least accept 1.1 in the
header exchange. The page is served as html 4.01 strict to other
browsers, some of which might support xhtml 1.1, but do not say so in
the header exchange. The IE browsers get served html 4.01, for
example.
Microsoft conditional comments are used to route to one object path
for IE and close relatives such as MSN and ATT/Yahoo DSL browsers.
Thus you can make each path completely different if you wish, and you
do not have to use script to do so. It is up to you to see if this
approach might help with your printer problem.
Please note the high resolution video is designed for DSL. A loading
status bar built into the control bar generated when coding the swf
and flv files shows download progress. Also the swf file is rather
small as it is just a container file that generates controls etc. The
actual video is a separate flv which is large. This is the modern
method for using flash video and is now heavily used for videos by
Google, YouTube, MySpace, and several news sites.
Another thing that is sometimes useful is to include text when
encoding the swf/flv. For instance see http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV2.php
.. The text in this case is part of the flv. In some cases people want
to print out the flash object. To do this you right click on the flash
image and select to print. This gives you a print of the area of the
flash image and nothing else on the page. Thus a text describing what
the flash image is often is useful. Of course when you print the whole
page in the normal manner, the flash object is not printed at all for
the way most printers are set up, just as one usually does not print
background color to save ink and avoid slower printing than necessary.
cwdjrxyz wrote:
On Mar 15, 7:00 pm, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
>Greetings.
BACKGROUND:
My sites are pure XHTML 1.1 with CSS 2.1 for markup. My pages are
delivered as application/xhtml+xml for all non-MS web clients, and as
text/xml for all MS web clients (Internet Explorer).
My flash content was originally brought in via the "flash satay" method,
but I have since used some server-side magic do deliver one <objecttag
for IE and another <objecttag for non-IE clients. That way, IE gets
its codebase and classid attributes, which would cause any non-IE client
to ignore the object element entirely.
PROBLEM:
My problem now is with printing. I can't for the life of me figure out
how to get browsers to IGNORE the object element when printing - so that
they grab the alternative content inside of the object element instead.
You see, inside of my object element is a very nicely formatted header
element (h1 to be exact), and I want this to appear when printing, but
not in any other case. I also want this to appear when the object tag
fails (for example, when someone does not have Flash installed).
I would normally consider using SWFObject, but it does not make use of
standards-compliant JavaScript (it uses document.write), and therefore
will break when pages make use of the application/xhtml+xml mime type.
In addition, it craps out when people fail to have JS turned on, or
whose browsers (cellphones, handhelds) do not make use of JS. My sites
are meant to be fully compatible and accessible! I am not looking to
have content created by JS!
IMPORTANT:
Please understand, I am looking for a way, during printing, for the
printer to ignore the object element itself in favour of the h1 element
that exists inside the object element. This h1 element exists inside the
object element because it is the "graceful degradation" content for
anyone without Flash (or the correct version of Flash). I am not willing
to entertain any other arrangement of elements (or element creation via
JavaScript) unless it is equally as backward-compatible, elegant and
standards-compliant. Preferably, I am looking for a CSS solution.
TIA.
...Geshel
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It is very difficult to respond to you without the source code
available to view. However, since I have a working flash page up that
is at the xhtml 1.1 level, I will point you to it so that you can see
if anything there will help you. The page is at
http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV.php . The source code
you get will be xhtml 1.1 for browsers such as recent Firefox, Opera,
Seamonkey, and Mozilla that say they will at least accept 1.1 in the
header exchange. The page is served as html 4.01 strict to other
browsers, some of which might support xhtml 1.1, but do not say so in
the header exchange. The IE browsers get served html 4.01, for
example.
Microsoft conditional comments are used to route to one object path
for IE and close relatives such as MSN and ATT/Yahoo DSL browsers.
Thus you can make each path completely different if you wish, and you
do not have to use script to do so. It is up to you to see if this
approach might help with your printer problem.
Please note the high resolution video is designed for DSL. A loading
status bar built into the control bar generated when coding the swf
and flv files shows download progress. Also the swf file is rather
small as it is just a container file that generates controls etc. The
actual video is a separate swf which is large. This is the modern
method for using flash video and is now heavily used for videos by
Google, YouTube, MySpace, and several news sites.
Here is my code:
<object id="head" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="/swf/header.swf" width="758" height="200">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/swf/header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<h1><a href="/">Generic Corp</a></h1>
</object>
Simply put, when a browser goes to print, or provides a print preview, I
want it to ignore the object element completely, in favour of the h1
element inside of the object (the object’s alternative, or “graceful
degradation” content).
That is, I *DO NOT* want the object element to show up on either the
print preview, or the actual print output at all. It should be as if the
object element doesn’t even exist. However, I *DO* want the object’s
“graceful degradation” content, the h1 (present for thosewho do not
have Flash installed) to show up in the print preview AND the print output.
TIA.
...Geshel
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On Mar 16, 11:58 am, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
cwdjrxyz wrote:
On Mar 15, 7:00 pm, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
Greetings.
BACKGROUND:
My sites are pure XHTML 1.1 with CSS 2.1 for markup. My pages are
delivered as application/xhtml+xml for all non-MS web clients, and as
text/xml for all MS web clients (Internet Explorer).
My flash content was originally brought in via the "flash satay" method,
but I have since used some server-side magic do deliver one <objecttag
for IE and another <objecttag for non-IE clients. That way, IE gets
its codebase and classid attributes, which would cause any non-IE client
to ignore the object element entirely.
PROBLEM:
My problem now is with printing. I can't for the life of me figure out
how to get browsers to IGNORE the object element when printing - so that
they grab the alternative content inside of the object element instead.
You see, inside of my object element is a very nicely formatted header
element (h1 to be exact), and I want this to appear when printing, but
not in any other case. I also want this to appear when the object tag
fails (for example, when someone does not have Flash installed).
I would normally consider using SWFObject, but it does not make use of
standards-compliant JavaScript (it uses document.write), and therefore
will break when pages make use of the application/xhtml+xml mime type.
In addition, it craps out when people fail to have JS turned on, or
whose browsers (cellphones, handhelds) do not make use of JS. My sites
are meant to be fully compatible and accessible! I am not looking to
have content created by JS!
IMPORTANT:
Please understand, I am looking for a way, during printing, for the
printer to ignore the object element itself in favour of the h1 element
that exists inside the object element. This h1 element exists inside the
object element because it is the "graceful degradation" content for
anyone without Flash (or the correct version of Flash). I am not willing
to entertain any other arrangement of elements (or element creation via
JavaScript) unless it is equally as backward-compatible, elegant and
standards-compliant. Preferably, I am looking for a CSS solution.
TIA.
...Geshel
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It is very difficult to respond to you without the source code
available to view. However, since I have a working flash page up that
is at the xhtml 1.1 level, I will point you to it so that you can see
if anything there will help you. The page is at
http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV.php. The source code
you get will be xhtml 1.1 for browsers such as recent Firefox, Opera,
Seamonkey, and Mozilla that say they will at least accept 1.1 in the
header exchange. The page is served as html 4.01 strict to other
browsers, some of which might support xhtml 1.1, but do not say so in
the header exchange. The IE browsers get served html 4.01, for
example.
Microsoft conditional comments are used to route to one object path
for IE and close relatives such as MSN and ATT/Yahoo DSL browsers.
Thus you can make each path completely different if you wish, and you
do not have to use script to do so. It is up to you to see if this
approach might help with your printer problem.
Please note the high resolution video is designed for DSL. A loading
status bar built into the control bar generated when coding the swf
and flv files shows download progress. Also the swf file is rather
small as it is just a container file that generates controls etc. The
actual video is a separate swf which is large. This is the modern
method for using flash video and is now heavily used for videos by
Google, YouTube, MySpace, and several news sites.
Here is my code:
<object id="head" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="/swf/header.swf" width="758" height="200">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/swf/header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<h1><a href="/">Generic Corp</a></h1>
</object>
Simply put, when a browser goes to print, or provides a print preview, I
want it to ignore the object element completely, in favour of the h1
element inside of the object (the object's alternative, or "graceful
degradation" content).
That is, I *DO NOT* want the object element to show up on either the
print preview, or the actual print output at all. It should be as if the
object element doesn't even exist. However, I *DO* want the object's
"graceful degradation" content, the h1 (present for those who do not
have Flash installed) to show up in the print preview AND the print output.
TIA.
...Geshel
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Your approach does not seem to work in adding the header within the
object. I added a header to my second example in both the IE and non-
IE path. The only browser I have that does not support flash is the
W3C Amaya. When viewed on it, nothing shows as if the flash objects
were not there at all. This tests only the non-IE path. I described
earlier how printing responds to a flash object. It could be that the
added header would work on an ActiveX object as used in the IE path,
but I have no browser with full ActiveX support without flash to view
the page - that would be an IE browser or close relative. Even if it
does work, that would still leave a problem for the non-IE browsers.
I suggest that you make a second page that appears as you want it for
printing out. Then just link to it from the main page for those who
want to print. The print page would have your header instead of the
flash display, and anything else that would make the printed page look
better. I have done this in the past for some of my pages that present
problems in printing rather than go to elaborate means to revise the
page for both viewing and printing. This method is quite common. For
example, Yahoo email has a print view button that reformats the page
for better printing of the eMail. Since server disc space is now dirt
cheap, a bit more size for the added page is of no concern.
I would not be much concerned about browsers that do not have flash.
The reason so many major sites are now using flash is that more OSs
and browsers support it than other players such as as WMP, Real, etc.
Flash can be installed on many more OSs than can WMP, for example. In
fact, if you buy a new computer, you likely will have to go to
considerable trouble to uninstall flash, and the average computer user
likely will never bother to do so. This has been so for several years.
Flash is not my favorite format for high quality video, but I can see
why it is so often used on large web sites designed to be viewed by
the masses.
cwdjrxyz wrote:
On Mar 16, 11:58 am, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
>>
<object id="head" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="/swf/header.swf" width="758" height="200">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/swf/header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<h1><a href="/">Generic Corp</a></h1>
</object>
Simply put, when a browser goes to print, or provides a print preview, I
want it to ignore the object element completely, in favour of the h1
element inside of the object (the object's alternative, or "graceful
degradation" content).
That is, I *DO NOT* want the object element to show up on either the
print preview, or the actual print output at all. It should be as if the
object element doesn't even exist. However, I *DO* want the object's
"graceful degradation" content, the h1 (present for those who do not
have Flash installed) to show up in the print preview AND the print output.
I suggest that you make a second page that appears as you want it for
printing out. Then just link to it from the main page for those who
want to print. The print page would have your header instead of the
flash display, and anything else that would make the printed page look
better.
Does there have to be a completely separate page? Bend CSS to your will
(assuming it's working in your users' browsers in the first place)?
In the XHTML:
<head>
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="MyStyle.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="MyStylePrint.css" type="text/css"
media="print">
<object blah blah...>
<h1 class="flashthingy">Our company is dynamic</h1>
In MyStyle.css:
object#head {visibility:visible;}
h1.flashthingy {display:none;}
In MyStylePrint.css:
object#head {visibility:hidden;}
h1.flashthingy {display:block;}
Whether you use visibility or display to hide the Flash object depends
on its position and spacing relative to other elements. When I use CSS
to hide a nav menu when printing, I often use visibility:hidden so as to
preserve the layout. Sometimes, though, it's preferable to completely
/hide/ the nav menu (display:none;) to /not/ preserve the layout. You'll
have to study your design and see.
Caveat: not sure this will work for you, so try it and test it well. I
have no clue regarding <h1or other texts in Flash objects so cannot
help you (Neo) directly.
HTH. GL.
--
John
Distressed that Thunderbird will not let me post to multiple newsgroups.
On Mar 16, 4:58 pm, "cwdjrxyz" <spamtr...@cwdjr.infowrote:
On Mar 16, 11:58 am, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
cwdjrxyz wrote:
On Mar 15, 7:00 pm, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
>Greetings.
>BACKGROUND:
>My sites are pure XHTML 1.1 with CSS 2.1 for markup. My pages are
>delivered as application/xhtml+xml for all non-MS web clients, and as
>text/xml for all MS web clients (Internet Explorer).
>My flash content was originally brought in via the "flash satay" method,
>but I have since used some server-side magic do deliver one <objecttag
>for IE and another <objecttag for non-IE clients. That way, IE gets
>its codebase and classid attributes, which would cause any non-IE client
>to ignore the object element entirely.
>PROBLEM:
>My problem now is with printing. I can't for the life of me figure out
>how to get browsers to IGNORE the object element when printing - so that
>they grab the alternative content inside of the object element instead.
>You see, inside of my object element is a very nicely formatted header
>element (h1 to be exact), and I want this to appear when printing, but
>not in any other case. I also want this to appear when the object tag
>fails (for example, when someone does not have Flash installed).
>I would normally consider using SWFObject, but it does not make use of
>standards-compliant JavaScript (it uses document.write), and therefore
>will break when pages make use of the application/xhtml+xml mime type.
>In addition, it craps out when people fail to have JS turned on, or
>whose browsers (cellphones, handhelds) do not make use of JS. My sites
>are meant to be fully compatible and accessible! I am not looking to
>have content created by JS!
>IMPORTANT:
>Please understand, I am looking for a way, during printing, for the
>printer to ignore the object element itself in favour of the h1 element
>that exists inside the object element. This h1 element exists inside the
>object element because it is the "graceful degradation" content for
>anyone without Flash (or the correct version of Flash). I am not willing
>to entertain any other arrangement of elements (or element creation via
>JavaScript) unless it is equally as backward-compatible, elegant and
>standards-compliant. Preferably, I am looking for a CSS solution.
>TIA.
>...Geshel
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>Do not send e-mail there unless you wish to be reported as a spammer.
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It is very difficult to respond to you without the source code
available to view. However, since I have a working flash page up that
is at the xhtml 1.1 level, I will point you to it so that you can see
if anything there will help you. The page is at
>http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV.php. The source code
you get will be xhtml 1.1 for browsers such as recent Firefox, Opera,
Seamonkey, and Mozilla that say they will at least accept 1.1 in the
header exchange. The page is served as html 4.01 strict to other
browsers, some of which might support xhtml 1.1, but do not say so in
the header exchange. The IE browsers get served html 4.01, for
example.
Microsoft conditional comments are used to route to one object path
for IE and close relatives such as MSN and ATT/Yahoo DSL browsers.
Thus you can make each path completely different if you wish, and you
do not have to use script to do so. It is up to you to see if this
approach might help with your printer problem.
Please note the high resolution video is designed for DSL. A loading
status bar built into the control bar generated when coding the swf
and flv files shows download progress. Also the swf file is rather
small as it is just a container file that generates controls etc. The
actual video is a separate swf which is large. This is the modern
method for using flash video and is now heavily used for videos by
Google, YouTube, MySpace, and several news sites.
Here is my code:
<object id="head" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="/swf/header.swf" width="758" height="200">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/swf/header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<h1><a href="/">Generic Corp</a></h1>
</object>
Simply put, when a browser goes to print, or provides a print preview, I
want it to ignore the object element completely, in favour of the h1
element inside of the object (the object's alternative, or "graceful
degradation" content).
That is, I *DO NOT* want the object element to show up on either the
print preview, or the actual print output at all. It should be as if the
object element doesn't even exist. However, I *DO* want the object's
"graceful degradation" content, the h1 (present for those who do not
have Flash installed) to show up in the print preview AND the print output.
TIA.
...Geshel
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Your approach does not seem to work in adding the header within the
object. I added a header to my second example in both the IE and non-
IE path. The only browser I have that does not support flash is the
W3C Amaya. When viewed on it, nothing shows as if the flash objects
were not there at all. This tests only the non-IE path. I described
earlier how printing responds to a flash object. It could be that the
added header would work on an ActiveX object as used in the IE path,
but I have no browser with full ActiveX support without flash to view
the page - that would be an IE browser or close relative. Even if it
does work, that would still leave a problem for the non-IE browsers.
I suggest that you make a second page that appears as you want it for
printing out. Then just link to it from the main page for those who
want to print. The print page would have your header instead of the
flash display, and anything else that would make the printed page look
better. I have done this in the past for some of my pages that present
problems in printing rather than go to elaborate means to revise the
page for both viewing and printing. This method is quite common. For
example, Yahoo email has a print view button that reformats the page
for better printing of the eMail. Since server disc space is now dirt
cheap, a bit more size for the added page is of no concern.
I would not be much concerned about browsers that do not have flash.
The reason so many major sites are now using flash is that more OSs
and browsers support it than other players such as as WMP, Real, etc.
Flash can be installed on many more OSs than can WMP, for example. In
fact, if you buy a new computer, you likely will have to go to
considerable trouble to uninstall flash, and the average computer user
likely will never bother to do so. This has been so for several years.
Flash is not my favorite format for high quality video, but I can see
why it is so often used on large web sites designed to be viewed by
the masses.
If you can tolerate having your header just above the top of the flash
image position when the flash image is present or not, the solution is
simple. See http://www.cwdjr.info/video_extreme/cancanFLV2.php which
has been modified. The header and flash objects are all in a division,
with the header first. If you use the usual method of printing out and
the flash image is present, the flash image is not shown and replaced
by white space where it would be. However the header still shows.
However, if flash is not supported , just the header is shown and
printed out with no white space reserved for where the flash image
would be. The header I used is "PEEK-A-BOO". I could very well live
with this, but then I do not know the exact layout you have in mind
and if it is important enough to you to justify a lot of extra
complication.
John Hosking wrote:
cwdjrxyz wrote:
>On Mar 16, 11:58 am, Neo Geshel <got...@geshel.orgwrote:
>>>
<object id="head" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="/swf/header.swf" width="758" height="200">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="/swf/header.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<h1><a href="/">Generic Corp</a></h1>
</object>
Simply put, when a browser goes to print, or provides a print preview, I
want it to ignore the object element completely, in favour of the h1
element inside of the object (the object's alternative, or "graceful
degradation" content).
That is, I *DO NOT* want the object element to show up on either the
print preview, or the actual print output at all. It should be as if the
object element doesn't even exist. However, I *DO* want the object's
"graceful degradation" content, the h1 (present for those who do not
have Flash installed) to show up in the print preview AND the print
output.
I suggest that you make a second page that appears as you want it for
printing out. Then just link to it from the main page for those who
want to print. The print page would have your header instead of the
flash display, and anything else that would make the printed page look
better.
Does there have to be a completely separate page? Bend CSS to your will
(assuming it's working in your users' browsers in the first place)?
In the XHTML:
<head>
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="MyStyle.css" type="text/css" media="screen">
<link rel="Stylesheet" href="MyStylePrint.css" type="text/css"
media="print">
<object blah blah...>
<h1 class="flashthingy">Our company is dynamic</h1>
In MyStyle.css:
object#head {visibility:visible;}
h1.flashthingy {display:none;}
In MyStylePrint.css:
object#head {visibility:hidden;}
h1.flashthingy {display:block;}
Whether you use visibility or display to hide the Flash object depends
on its position and spacing relative to other elements. When I use CSS
to hide a nav menu when printing, I often use visibility:hidden so as to
preserve the layout. Sometimes, though, it's preferable to completely
/hide/ the nav menu (display:none;) to /not/ preserve the layout. You'll
have to study your design and see.
Caveat: not sure this will work for you, so try it and test it well. I
have no clue regarding <h1or other texts in Flash objects so cannot
help you (Neo) directly.
HTH. GL.
The problem with this method is with people who have flash disabled, or
who have an alternative user-agent. Those without flash or with an
older, incompatible version of flash, will not see any type of header at
all, because there is no <h1inside the <object>. However, if we were
to put two on the page - one inside the object for those that cannot use
the object element, and one outside for print purposes - those who
cannot use the object element and go to print out the page will see two
headers.
I can see many situations where either no headers, or both headers would
be seen. This would not be a good situation. Besides, I am trying to
implement a semantically correct way of doing this; and that means that
only one <h1can and will exist on the page.
In fact, the only thing that I think *might* work is sIFR
( http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/), as it allows the <h1to exist
all by itself, and dynamically adds the flash if and only if the user
has the right version of flash installed. Problem is, it seems you
cannot specify pre-made flash files... it’s meant as a rich text tool
that dynamically reads what is inside the tagged element, and renders it
as fancily-formatted flash text (your own desired font, which the end
user doesn’t necessarily have).
Thanks, anyways.
...Geshel
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