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Points: 877 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 April 2006 at 4:47pm
True.  Its good that people can modify the code to how they like it. :)
 
And pop-ups are not evil if they are used for the purpose Borg used them for, to enhance the user's experience (i.e. to give them valuable information).
 
They are evil when they open a new browser window and advertise something that is totally unrelated to the website you are visiting.
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Points: 9844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 April 2006 at 4:55pm
It's not actually a pop-up.

It's just a hidden layer within the page, that when submit is clicked is set to visible so that you can see it.
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borg:

Yes, from an HTML/Browser perspective it is NOT a popup. I got that part. To the user it IS a popup. I detest flash being used in 90% of the implementations I have seen, but that's just me. Others clearly have no problem with it. I wouldn't expect you to recode based on a minority opinion (mine).

Scott: "Enhancing the user experience"? That is like GW's Leak-Gate scandal. It's a matter of perspective! :)
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Points: 9844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 April 2006 at 5:55pm
I'm not a big fan on Flash either, but in this case because Gif animation stops working when a page is submitted in IE I had no choice, as it looked really naff a progress bar appearing with a stationary bar in IE.

I was forced to re-write it in Flash after I found out that Flash is the only animation that keeps going in IE after the page is submitted.

Hopefully if MS address this issue in IE7 and will be able to use a Gif image in future versions.
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Points: 877 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11 April 2006 at 6:06pm
Originally posted by djlurchg djlurchg wrote:

borg:

Yes, from an HTML/Browser perspective it is NOT a popup. I got that part. To the user it IS a popup. I detest flash being used in 90% of the implementations I have seen, but that's just me. Others clearly have no problem with it. I wouldn't expect you to recode based on a minority opinion (mine).

Scott: "Enhancing the user experience"? That is like GW's Leak-Gate scandal. It's a matter of perspective! :)


I'm a user and I don't consider it a pop-up.  And its better than some forums where they take you to a temporary page that says loading before it sends you to the results.  I hate that.
 
And don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.  Just because in a big tub, 90% of the volume is dirty (i.e. the bathwater), doesn't mean the baby needs to go too!
 
Maybe if more people were like Borg and used it for its intended purposed (i.e. being useful to the user), there would be more than 10% of people using it for good and you would like it more.
 
Borg is actually doing a public service by using Flash in a good way, showing that the technology CAN be used for good and not evil. LOL
 
(patriotic music starts playing in the background.)
 
Someday good will triumph over evil and its people like Borg who will make it possible.
 
(camera pans to Borg standing proudly, with a cape flapping in the wind, in a superman type pose.)
 
LOL LOL Tongue Wink


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Wacko Lol Wistex your one of the WWF members that make me feel sane Tongue
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-borg- can you upload the *.fla file of Progress bar ? I want change the colour of bar like my skin ... 
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Points: 9844 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 April 2006 at 11:16am
It should be in the original images zip file found on the main forum download page.
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