This is my first attempt to use POV-generated images with Flash. It's the
opening page of my website at http://www.cloudinthesky.com/. I would
appreciate any comments or any problems anyone might have accessing the
page.

Thanks,
Stephen Klebs

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"Stephen Klebs" <skl### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> This is my first attempt to use POV-generated images with Flash. It's the
> opening page of my website at http://www.cloudinthesky.com/. I would
> appreciate any comments or any problems anyone might have accessing the
> page.
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen Klebs

Nice site. Although I can't access most of it using Opera. For example in
the
Pictures section, I can only view Skies. All of the others state that
"SimpleViewer requires the Flash Player", which I most assuredly have
installed. If I click on Abstractions I get a file-not-found error.
The seashells are truly amazing, but there is no link to the rest of the
site that I could discern.
Regarding the opening picture it seems to me that the marbles are less
realistic than the other items. Especially the purple/yellow and the
orange/blue ones.

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Grassblade nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 20-02-2007 15:26:
> "Stephen Klebs" <skl### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>> This is my first attempt to use POV-generated images with Flash. It's the
>> opening page of my website at http://www.cloudinthesky.com/. I would
>> appreciate any comments or any problems anyone might have accessing the
>> page.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen Klebs
> 
> Nice site. Although I can't access most of it using Opera. For example in
> the
> Pictures section, I can only view Skies. All of the others state that
> "SimpleViewer requires the Flash Player", which I most assuredly have
> installed. If I click on Abstractions I get a file-not-found error.
> The seashells are truly amazing, but there is no link to the rest of the
> site that I could discern.
> Regarding the opening picture it seems to me that the marbles are less
> realistic than the other items. Especially the purple/yellow and the
> orange/blue ones.
> 
> 
I also have problems using Firefox.
Objects, animation, seashells, cloud store, pictures, links and small gestures 
are OK.
Refraction tells me "SimpleViewer requires the Flash Player.", whitch is 
installed and running (home page IS flash).
Abstraction return a "not found" error.


-- 
Alain
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Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Thomas Jefferson

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Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't able to test much of this site on Firefox
or Opera. I think I fixed the "Flash not installed" problem. IE requires
workarounds to avoid that annoying and useless "Click to run active
content" message and they have to be updated every so often. I replaced the
old "AC_RunActiveContent.js" script with "swfobject.js" which I use most of
the time. Hope it works.

I was especially curious if the opening page worked with the animated marble
since that requires Flash 8, which supports png transparency, and I don't
have any way of testing what it looks like with Flash 7 installed.

Thanks again,
Steve Klebs

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Stephen Klebs nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 21-02-2007 15:26:
> Thanks for the feedback. I wasn't able to test much of this site on Firefox
> or Opera. I think I fixed the "Flash not installed" problem. IE requires
> workarounds to avoid that annoying and useless "Click to run active
> content" message and they have to be updated every so often. I replaced the
> old "AC_RunActiveContent.js" script with "swfobject.js" which I use most of
> the time. Hope it works.
Nope :-( Did not work, even after forcing a reload from the site.
I have the latest flash version: 9.x
> 
> I was especially curious if the opening page worked with the animated marble
> since that requires Flash 8, which supports png transparency, and I don't
> have any way of testing what it looks like with Flash 7 installed.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Steve Klebs
> 
It was some fun pushing that marble around, for a time.

Using Firefox 2.0.0.1

-- 
Alain
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For THIS I bought a computer?

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> This is my first attempt to use POV-generated images with Flash. It's the
> opening page of my website at http://www.cloudinthesky.com/. I would
> appreciate any comments or any problems anyone might have accessing the 
> page.

I can access the page OK, and its eye-candy through and through. Delicious!
Using IE7, the flash animations and controls work pretty much as expected 
except that everything opens in a new and different tab, and that pretty 
soon gets exhausting as the page titles all start with the same string. I 
suggest judicious use of the target attribute of your hyperlinks.
DLM

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"dlm" <me### [at] addressinvalid> wrote:
> > This is my first attempt to use POV-generated images with Flash. It's the
> > opening page of my website at http://www.cloudinthesky.com/. I would
> > appreciate any comments or any problems anyone might have accessing the
> > page.
>
> I can access the page OK, and its eye-candy through and through. Delicious!
> Using IE7, the flash animations and controls work pretty much as expected
> except that everything opens in a new and different tab, and that pretty
> soon gets exhausting as the page titles all start with the same string. I
> suggest judicious use of the target attribute of your hyperlinks.
> DLM

Thanks for the feedback, DLM. I was aware that "everything opens in a new
and different tab" from the home page but I don't know a way of using a
"_self" hyperlink to stay in the same window as the opening Flash animation
without having to reopen the box everytime. I included menu bars on most
pages to avoid returning each time but it's still irritating.

This obviously isn't a Flash forum but if anyone knows of a way of
Actionscripting Flash to tell it to skip certain frames when someone
returns to a page, I would like to know. Mixing Flash with HTML gets
complicated (especially with all the annoying roadblocks Microsoft puts in
the way). HTML is easier but limited so that it's almost better to do
the whole site in Flash.

Steve Klebs
http://www.cloudinthesky.com

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Stephen Klebs wrote:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Rolling marble links to 'File Not Found'.
Everything else seems to work and looks nice.

 -Shay

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