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Flash video has several advantages over other formats, especially the fact that the Flash plugin comes pre-installed on most browsers. For this reason I’ve been looking at using streaming Flash video in sites which must support a wide variety of browsers and platforms.
Continue readingI wanted to add a search function to the learning modules housed in our learning management system. These modules are of several types, most are HTML/javascript-based modules, but there are also flash, pdf, and MS producer ones as well. Many of them are meant to be viewed while under SCORM control, so it is important that the search feature not interfere with SCORM communication by allowing the user to navigating away from the current module or by removing the surrounding frameset.
When under SCORM control, the script must be able to detect which module is current, and search only within that directory. When not under SCORM control, the user can have the option of searching all content on the server.
It is also important to be able to hold obsolete or private items out of the search.
Continue readingWhile testing a javascript-heavy frameset-based learning module, users complained bitterly about the white frameset background flashing at them before each page loaded, particularly in IE. A related issue was that graphics were not preloading properly
Continue readingCertain applications work poorly under SSL: the back button may not function, or users’ security settings may be such that they are constantly presented with various certificate errors. Suppose you have a web application which
Continue readingThe default extensions which IIS reads for Server Side Includes are .shtm, .shtml and .stm.
Suppose you want server-side includes to be processed in .htm files also? For example you may have file with the .htm extension which has been on the web for some time and has numerous links pointing at it. You could replace it with a file with one of the allowed extensions, and put a redirect in its place, pointing to the new file. Or, if you have access to the IIS server settings, you could add the .htm extension to the list of files processed for SSI.
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Sometimes it is necessary to have files or an application on one IIS web server (Server B) appear as if they were in the same domain as another server (Server A). For example, you may want
http://serverB.com/content
to be accessible via the URL
http://serverA.com/content
This is useful in cases where you need to avoid cross-doman scripting issues, or simply want to make everything appear to be hosted under one umbrella domain name.
On an IIS server, this can be accomplished by creating a virtual directory on Server A which points to a directory on Server B.
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