I use Flash Menu Builder (FMB) for my menus, and VSD for my pages. I've noticed a small inconsistency with links between these two. (This is a Flash Menu Builder Question)
In VSD, if I create a link from some text, I can specifiy the type of window I want that link open up in. If I specify "_blank", I get a new window that automatically becomes the active open window. This is what I want.
In FMB, if I specify a button to open a new url using "_blank", it opens a new window, but that window is not made to be the active window. I have to manually click on the new window to view the contents.
I use Tabbed Browsing in IE, so when the new window opens up from the click on the menu iten, I have to look for the tab to open and view the contents. Many times, I dont see the new tab get created, and I click more than once on the menu button before I notice a number of new tabs are being created.
So, the question is... is there a way to make the menu links work like the links in VSD... namely, that they not only create a new tab (window), but they make that window open and active as well?
(Is this clear?)
All my best,
Scott Tucker
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Cliff Main
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I understand what you are asking about. Sorry I don't have the solution as I am also having a similar problem with other flash applications. Same thing, different program. When linking from a flash app, my link opens in a new 'tab' but the focus does not change to that tab, so it can be missed.
I'd also like to know if there is a way to make sure that page 'opens' in the browser. Until I read your post, I thought it was a problem with the program. Now I'm starting to see that it is more an issue with how links work in flash apps. E-Learning Specialist
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I'd also like to know if there is a way to make sure that page 'opens' in the browser. Until I read your post, I thought it was a problem with the program. Now I'm starting to see that it is more an issue with how links work in flash apps. E-Learning Specialist
www.mainsites.ca is my website, and yes, some of it is crappy.
Spinny
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I'm jumping in over my head here, but isn't tab focus somewhat browser dependent? For Firefox, for example, there are plug-ins designed to shift focus to the new tab because (I presume, else why need the plug-in?) it's not normal behavior.
Or, I could pipe down and go back to reading HTML books until I understand why that's not the issue.
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Or, I could pipe down and go back to reading HTML books until I understand why that's not the issue.
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Cliff Main
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The "_blank" at the end of an html link is designed to open in a new "window".
The new standard of XHTML does not allow "_blank". It won't validate by the W3C in XHTML validation services. We will have to wait to see what HTML5 has in store for us. Until then, 'standard compliant browsers' can do whatever they want with the "_blank" code on html pages, so yes, it can be browser behaviour BUT it was supposed to open a new "window", which is now a "tab" and it behaves differently if the link comes from an html link or from a link within a flash application, which makes links 'guesswork' at best as to how they will behave. Wow, that was a 'run-on' sentence and a half!
I would like to find a way to make my flash links work the same as the html link does in the same browser. At least that would be consistant.
E-Learning Specialist
www.mainsites.ca is my website, and yes, some of it is crappy.
The new standard of XHTML does not allow "_blank". It won't validate by the W3C in XHTML validation services. We will have to wait to see what HTML5 has in store for us. Until then, 'standard compliant browsers' can do whatever they want with the "_blank" code on html pages, so yes, it can be browser behaviour BUT it was supposed to open a new "window", which is now a "tab" and it behaves differently if the link comes from an html link or from a link within a flash application, which makes links 'guesswork' at best as to how they will behave. Wow, that was a 'run-on' sentence and a half!
I would like to find a way to make my flash links work the same as the html link does in the same browser. At least that would be consistant.
E-Learning Specialist
www.mainsites.ca is my website, and yes, some of it is crappy.
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