I’m having an issue with the FLV video/player and the carousel action, but this only happens in Firefox. (Haven’t tested it on IE yet) In Safari everything is fine.
Click through the carousel panes, and notice when you go from the “Video” to the “Photo” pane, the left side gets weird.
On a PC running Firefox, a portion of the video still appears on the left side (this also happens if you’re viewing this page with Safari on an iPhone). On a Mac running Firefox, the left side kind of ‘wobbles’ a little, and ends up being 1 px off on the next pane. A similar but less noticeable weirdness happens when going from “Photo” pane to the “Design” pane.
I’ve tried resizing things, moving things around, resizing the carousel area, all with no effect.
I’m having an issue with the FLV video/player and the carousel action, but this only happens in Firefox. (Haven’t tested it on IE yet) In Safari everything is fine.
On a PC running Firefox, a portion of the video still appears on the left side (this also happens if you’re viewing this page with Safari on an iPhone).
Sorry, this is a known problem with plug-in content within the carousel. I don’t know of a way around it, except maybe to create an iframe and put the entire carousel business inside that. I have not tested that idea at all, and it might not work.
Sorry, this is a known problem with plug-in content within the carousel. I don’t know of a way around it, except maybe to create an iframe and put the entire carousel business inside that. I have not tested that idea at all, and it might not work.
Walter
I’d be open to an iFrame solution, but I have a lot of links in the website to particular frames on this carousel. Can I still link directly to them if the carousel is in an iframe?
You can, as long as you control both the iframe content and the parent page (which you probably do). Simply set the base target in the iframe page to _top, or in each link that you create, pull down the target picker to _top. That will jump up out of the iframe into the parent page, and select the link from that perspective.
You can, as long as you control both the iframe content and the parent page (which you probably do). Simply set the base target in the iframe page to _top, or in each link that you create, pull down the target picker to _top. That will jump up out of the iframe into the parent page, and select the link from that perspective.
Walter
Well, I tried working it with the iframe solution, and ran into a mess of issues. The “left” and “right” buttons overlap the area that is having issues, so iframe or not, it still goes weird. Plus, the carousel tabs were outside the affected area, so I can’t link to the panes from them or else it would reload the page every time.
Any ideas if this issue is being addressed? or if an update is in the works? If so, about how long out?
I think I could resolve this issue if I didn’t embed the FLV player on the pane itself, but rather put a placemarker there to link to a popup box that plays the video. Is there an easy way to implement a feature like this?
I would love something resembling the way moo: Slimbox works popping up a shadowbox with a photo, except it would popup and play a video?
Try using a Scriptaculous popup, like LightWindow.
If you’re using Carousel, you already have Prototype and Scriptaculous, so you’ll only need to add lightwindow.js to your page, and include the CSS file and images it needs. Then simply add the class ‘lightwindow’ to the link you want to use to trigger the popup, and make sure the link is to the image itself, and you’re all set.
Try using a Scriptaculous popup, like LightWindow.
If you’re using Carousel, you already have Prototype and Scriptaculous, so you’ll only need to add lightwindow.js to your page, and include the CSS file and images it needs. Then simply add the class ‘lightwindow’ to the link you want to use to trigger the popup, and make sure the link is to the image itself, and you’re all set.
Walter
Thanks, Walter. I’ll give LightWindow a shot. I really appreciate the help!
Ok, I’ve tried LightWindow and Greybox, both claiming “easy installation” but trying to get them working with Freeway has baffled my current web skills.
Can any provide me with a step-by-step instruction on how to implement a Scriptaculous popup window in FW? How do I add all the js and css files, and add the right properties to the link, etc. The LightWindow and Greybox instructions spell it out clearly, but I need some help translating it into “Freeway language”.