Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: An ignorant question?

[Alex Hudson]

On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 16:59, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
> >FWIW I would advise learning and using the JavaScript programming language 
> >and 
> >any text editor for animations. 
> >
> Please refer to
> <http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/samples/>
> for some possibilities for eye candy through scrpting Javascript with CSS.
> Mozilla is the most standards compliant of the  widely used browser, I 
> guess.

Doing courses with DHTML and Javascript doesn't fly at all,
unfortunately - it's incredibly unreliable, and unusable for multimedia
(sadly I have a lot of commercial experience in this area - multimedia
learning, that is).

> The interactive part of Flash is actually  a subset called 
> ActionScript....very similar but with less functionality.
> The Flash making software automates the script for tose who click buttons.

The language (Javascript/ActionScript) actually isn't the issue - the
issue is the API: Flash makes a lot of stuff available, which isn't in
the DOM or isn't implemented correctly across a variety of browsers. 

> For SVG in Mozilla itself I saw this and thought some might be interested...
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?group=netscape.public.mozilla.svg>

SVG is definitely the long-term answer. I'm not sure about the native
support for it - as far as I know, the only 'decent' support comes from
non-free plug-ins, even though SVG was designed to be easily implemented
in modern browsers :/

One thing I would note - OpenOffice.org1.1 has the ability to export to
Flash. So, it might be possible to take your OOo Presenter XML, and
translate that into HTML, Flash as well as showing it natively. Just
another idea ;)

Cheers,

Alex.

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