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HTML inside HTML...

Arturo Toledo

2004-04-21, 10:30 pm

Ok... here´s de scenario...

I have an html doc with one big table...
This table has 3 more tables inside it...
The top table will contain a navigation flash movie
The right side table will contain another set of flash movies...
The left side table will contain very different HTML documents depending on
where the user wants to go... Introduction, Who are we..., News....
The top and right tables are for navigation so they will stay there forever.
The flash movies (navigation) will be available while the user is in the
web page.
What I want is to be able to load an HTML document inside the left table...
this HTML doc will change depending on where the user goes but basically the
navigation bars (top and right table) will stay there forever. I guess the
whole page would still need to refresh though...

I could solve this by having an introduction.html, whoarewe.html, news.html
files... every single one of them with the navigation bars... but I will
never really know how many "News articles" for instance will I have so I
don´t want to create an html file containg navigation bars for every single
"Article" published... sometimes I might have a 100 articles and It wouldn´t
be easy or functional to have a 100 different html files while I can have
one html file and just call the respective "Article" html doc and sort of
embed it with in my main HTML doc.

I can use IFRAME but it is not a fully supported feature...
I can use Frames but they are not fully supported across every browser
too...

What can I do besides IFRAMES and Frames?

Second... Once I have solved this "dynamic HTML inclusion" I need to know
how to switch that HTML doc from flash... should I invoke a JavaScript that
would embed the next HTML doc?

I hope I made myself clear... otherwise let me know...

Web page architecture: Navigation bars are Flash movies SWFs... Dreamweaver
for general assemble, ASP NET for server scripting, Access databases...
Contribute for maintainance.

Thanks!

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='o'= Arturo ='o'=
www.miltonfrank.tv

darrel

2004-04-21, 10:30 pm

> What can I do besides IFRAMES and Frames?

Use a back-end template system built in something like ASP, CF or PHP.

> Second... Once I have solved this "dynamic HTML inclusion" I need to know
> how to switch that HTML doc from flash... should I invoke a JavaScript
that
> would embed the next HTML doc?

You'd need to pass variables to the ASP, CF or PHP. Most likely through a
query string via the embedded link in the flash file.

Alternatively, since you're already using flash for half of the things, why
not just make the whole site a flash site?

-Darrel

Arturo Toledo

2004-04-21, 10:30 pm

Alan,

You are right, for many years Flash had all this non functional topics going
on, but printing for instance, can be easily achieved with FlashPaper... and
we can pretty much do everything with flash now... EXCEPT BRINGING HTML DOCS
inside a flash movie!!! $%$#&!!!! :o

I hope some of you have a solution for this... (by the way, I went to the
Flash forum and asked this and didn´t get an answer) so I guess it´s not
easy.

--
='o'= Arturo ='o'=
www.miltonfrank.tv

"Alan" <dont_mail_me_period@macromedia.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> I don't have a handy solution either- but may want to clear an okay with
> the client that almost all ways to make a site like this can make it
> difficult or impossible to print the content, or bookmark specific "pages"
>

Arturo Toledo

2004-04-21, 10:31 pm

Hi Darrel,

My main intention is to go Flash all the way... The only thing I don´t like
about it is that
I haven´t found a way to load "full featured" HTML docs INSIDE a flash
movie...
We can do it the other way... but putting an HTML doc with links, images
etc etc inside a Flash movie,
well I haven´t found how to do that... I´ve been thinking about using
Contribute´s FlashPaper
although that doesn´t allow you to do searchable / selectable documents...

Do you know how to bring an HTML inside a Flash movie?

Thanks!

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='o'= Arturo ='o'=
www.miltonfrank.tv

"darrel" <notreal@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> Use a back-end template system built in something like ASP, CF or PHP.
>
know[color=darkred]
> that
>
> You'd need to pass variables to the ASP, CF or PHP. Most likely through a
> query string via the embedded link in the flash file.
>
> Alternatively, since you're already using flash for half of the things,
why
> not just make the whole site a flash site?
>
> -Darrel
>
>

Alan

2004-04-21, 10:31 pm

>
> Alternatively, since you're already using flash for half of the things, why
> not just make the whole site a flash site?
>
> -Darrel
>
>

I don't have a handy solution either- but may want to clear an okay with
the client that almost all ways to make a site like this can make it
difficult or impossible to print the content, or bookmark specific "pages"

darrel

2004-04-21, 10:31 pm

> I haven´t found a way to load "full featured" HTML docs INSIDE a flash
> movie...

I think Flash can import XML, right? Can you style XML from within flash? if
so, then you should be able to get the entire content. I also think Flash
can connect to database directly, but I'm not positive.

-Darrel

Arturo Toledo

2004-04-21, 10:31 pm

Yes, Flash can parse XML. I´ll try that out.

Thanks!

"darrel" <notreal@hotmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> I think Flash can import XML, right? Can you style XML from within flash?
if
> so, then you should be able to get the entire content. I also think Flash
> can connect to database directly, but I'm not positive.
>
> -Darrel
>
>