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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
I love Wink (thanks John!). When linking to a movie (.swf file) so others can view it, which way is better and why? Just link to the .swf file so real player or whatever is your default program plays it. Or embedding the .swf in an html page. Is there a playability difference or any other reason to go with one over the other? Thanks for your thoughts! ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power |
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falkencreative
Advanced Member USA Joined: Aug 14, 2007 Post Count: 1129 Status: Offline |
I'm kinda looking for the same thing at the moment as well... With the exception that I'd rather users stay in my site when they are viewing videos, so I'd rather have the video display in the site, rather than simply be a link to a file that opens in an external player. I just don't like a website opening my programs for me, and it adds an extra element of confusion. ---------------------------------------- Benjamin Falk | student : designer : developer Twitter: falkencreative |
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falkencreative
Advanced Member USA Joined: Aug 14, 2007 Post Count: 1129 Status: Offline |
This is probably the best method I have found so far for embedding flash video: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ Any others? (cross browser compatible / ideally would validate?) ---------------------------------------- Benjamin Falk | student : designer : developer Twitter: falkencreative |
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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
I'm kinda looking for the same thing at the moment as well... With the exception that I'd rather users stay in my site when they are viewing videos, so I'd rather have the video display in the site, rather than simply be a link to a file that opens in an external player. I just don't like a website opening my programs for me, and it adds an extra element of confusion. ... logging in again Ya it's got to reside on my own site. But I'm split with my two options. Embedding it in an html page seems more professional, and you can have a little "BACK" link. But just having an external player open it up is pretty nice to. It makes a nice automatic popup that you can just click closed when done. There has to be some accessability/playability issue to consider though. Hmmmm.... ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power |
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falkencreative
Advanced Member USA Joined: Aug 14, 2007 Post Count: 1129 Status: Offline |
Perhaps one other option would be to embed the video in Lightbox (or a similar script). You'd get a nice clean popup that could be easily closed, and still have the professional appearance of everything staying on your site. ---------------------------------------- Benjamin Falk | student : designer : developer Twitter: falkencreative |
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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
This is probably the best method I have found so far for embedding flash video: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ Any others? (cross browser compatible / ideally would validate?) Ya that's the best there is! I looked into for a long time a while ago. I picked the static version. I added a couple key features to it and wrote a nice and "simple" tut about it. http://www.visibilityinherit.com/code/embedding-flash.php ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power |
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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
Ya, a thickbox (or similar) would be a good option too. I think I'll be going with the embedded when the time comes. Here is a good convo about the two options. http://www.flashadvisor.com/forum/viewing-swf-versus-t1731.html ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power |
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shelfimage
Advanced Member USA Joined: Mar 24, 2005 Post Count: 3000 Status: Offline |
This is probably the best method I have found so far for embedding flash video: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/ Any others? (cross browser compatible / ideally would validate?) Ya that's the best there is! I looked into for a long time a while ago. I picked the static version. I added a couple key features to it and wrote a nice and "simple" tut about it. http://www.visibilityinherit.com/code/embedding-flash.php I use the dynamic version so there is text available for search engines, screen readers, and those without JS or Flash. swfobject is the best and most reliable. There is also a similar script offered for jQuery too. I also use the swfobject generator which prepares the code for you including parameters. http://cli.gs/ULZ01v ---------------------------------------- "The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." -Okakura Kakuzo Save the developers<!> Maine Webworks |
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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
I use the dynamic version so there is text available for search engines, screen readers, and those without JS or Flash. You can place all the alt text you want inside the object tag with the static version as well. From what I know, the only thing that the dynamic version offers over the static (plus a no click script) is that it does a flash version check and plays accordingly. But, it relies on JS to work. If you don't have to use JS, then why use it? That is, unless you require the version check. But, maybe I'm missing something. It's happened many times before. ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by ewwatson at Dec 12, 2008 6:35:56 PM] |
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ewwatson
Advanced Member United States Joined: Dec 19, 2007 Post Count: 1285 Status: Offline |
I'm kinda looking for the same thing at the moment as well... With the exception that I'd rather users stay in my site when they are viewing videos, so I'd rather have the video display in the site, rather than simply be a link to a file that opens in an external player. I just don't like a website opening my programs for me, and it adds an extra element of confusion. Alright, here is how I think I'm going to do it Ben. Just link to the .swf file, but, have it come up in it's own window. So it act's like it's embedded but it's really not. Some of the benefit without the extra html pages to deal with. And when JS is off, the .swf comes up centered in the existing window (just like a normal link). I think that's pretty clean... <a href="wink.swf" onclick="window.open('wink.swf','','width=800,height=600');return false">Test</a> ---------------------------------------- Eric :~) Knowledge is Power |
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