Articles tagged 'flash'
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Rails 3.1: Treating your '.swf' files as assets
January 12, 2012
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on January 12, 2012.
This week, I’ve been deploying one of my current Ruby on Rails projects to WebFaction. For what we found, it’s definitely one of the best options out there for shared hosting with Python and Ruby.
The application being deployed happened to contain some static flash content (not my idea of course :P), which so far we had put in the
public/
directory and had served with no problems so far, while testing locally and on Heroku. However, when we were testing it out on WebFaction, it kept returning 404 errors.So, googling for a while, I stumbled into the swf_fu gem. It’s main function is to treat the swf objects as just another asset in the application. So,…
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IE and the flash "wmode" madness
November 23, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on November 23, 2011.
One of the reasons that didn’t allow me to release version 0.1.3 of the jQuery Rambilng Slider earlier this week was a really ugly bug with IE, flash and transitions from and image to a flash element and viceversa.
The problem: There are some transitions on the slider that require an image (or several) to be on top of the flash, so that it fades out and reveals the flash. This works fine on Firefox and Chrome, but when the time arrived, it just didn’t work with IE.
I did a lot of googling and the only thing that I found over and over again was to include a
param
tag inside theobject
tag, with a name ofwmode
and value oftransparent
oropaque
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jQuery Rambling Slider v0.1.3 is out!
November 23, 2011
This post was originally published in the Rambling Labs Blog on November 23, 2011.
Yes, it took me a while, but the jQuery Rambling Slider v0.1.3 is out!
You can download it from GitHub, test it out and report any issues you find. Go ahead and checkout all the tags.
You can also see the project’s details on GitHub or read the project’s wiki.
UPDATE 1 Unfortunately there was a critical bug with the links containing images/flash. But hey, it has been fixed already on v0.1.3 patch 1, available on GitHub.
UPDATE 2 There was another ugly bug with the caption not showing. This has been fixed already on v0.1.3 patch 2, available on GitHub.
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The main functionality added includes flash support (find more about it on the wiki