Opinion: Shopify Community - Design

Jamie commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:36:11 +0000

You're reading my mind that would be a good one. I have not read the docs yet, but that one would make a great example.

I have a several others I can send you as well if you just want to experiment. I had one that was giving me hell and I ended up having to edit the flash and put the folders on dropbox to make everything work. I'll drop you a couple if you like. LMK. :)

dockane commented on add text on cart page...

dockane — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:33:20 +0000

Bumpity-bump.

And, Jamie and Caroline, yes...that was "beer(s)" I was mentioning. . .where do each of you live anyway? The States, or do I have to travel to Canada? Which I love by the way.... ;-)

Cheers,
D

Caroline Schnapp commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:31:49 +0000

Jamie,

Can you recommend a good Flash package to use as an XML/images/Flash/swfobject example? I'm thinking cu3er.

Jamie commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:22:45 +0000

Nice! That will be a good addition. We need to address xml in that one. It can be confusing even to me sometimes. Most of these cheap flash files that people are buying use a folder based path and obviously we can't control and create a folder in the assets area. I have not had the need to use an xml.liquid yet, but this may alleviate the problem on most of these files.

Interactive John commented on Designer in the $900 range?

Interactive John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:49:51 +0000

Hi Larsomatic-

I would be able to help you out in that range. My portfolio can be found at http://interactivejohn.com/. Email me at john@iblackswan.com so we can further discuss your project. Thank you.

Best,

John

Caroline Schnapp commented on prettyPhoto and jquery

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:41:42 +0000

thob,

yes, you should.

Caroline Schnapp commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:40:41 +0000

Thanks Jamie, the last minutes of that screencast are perfect. You save me.

I am trying to use swfobject >=2, because down the road I want to write some FAQ or wiki article.

thob commented on prettyPhoto and jquery

thob — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:24:30 +0000

Hi Jamie,

thanks for your reply.

One question: do I need to remove - due to possible conflicts - the other libraries like prototype, mootools etc. (I'm playing with the Moderno theme)

Jamie commented on Question for Jamie: swfobject

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:47:14 +0000

LOL. The new version was screwed last time I messed with it. I gave up and reverted to 1.5 which is very straightforward to use. In fact it's still the only one I use. But I hate flash, and so avoid it whenever possible. You can get a copy of 1.5 here: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/#download

If you're just dying to scream you can watch a tut on 2.0 here (the last 3 minutes or so): http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=77

They may have made some better implementation on the 2.2 version that is out now. But since 2.0 release was nothing but problems I avoid. I have yet to run into anything that did not work with 1.5.

Question for Jamie: swfobject by Caroline Schnapp

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:19:20 +0000

Do you know of a good tutorial? :-)

I am experiencing a mental block over that page: http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation

Was swfobject supposed to make it easy to embed Flash?

If that was the goal, then that's an epic fail.

noefresh commented on Possible to Suppress Cart on Some Pages

noefresh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:23:47 +0000

Hmm- weird. All I did was paste two java snippets into the default template- it's a brand new site. But I'll see what I can do.

Noah

Jamie commented on Possible to Suppress Cart on Some Pages

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:14:49 +0000

No it wouldn't. the notextile escape is only for pages, blogs, collection and product description area, and it's days are numbered anyway.

You have some serious errors in that page I looked at. Missing closing div and extra body element etc. you'll just have to take them out one by one.

noefresh commented on RTE Beta- Unwanted Image Border

noefresh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:02:13 +0000

Worked like a charm- thanks Jamie.

Noah

michaelgoodman commented on Is there a way to "zip up" or truncate text on product pages?

michaelgoodman — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:53:48 +0000

If it's just text the load times should be negligible since 5Kb of text ~= 10Kb of text what with these new-fangled fast internets. I would only be hesitant if you were loading up images and stuff in there and even then I guess it's okay since the version you've got hidden is the shorter version.

Le me know if it works out. If offering less information is the way to sell more I'm all for that!

noefresh commented on Possible to Suppress Cart on Some Pages

noefresh — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:38:14 +0000

Cool fixed 1- thanks for the pointers.

2 is a little trickier- seems to be caused by the java trackers and online help chat button I pasted into the default Onyx code. Would it help to surround those with no textiles?

Noah

Jamie commented on Possible to Suppress Cart on Some Pages

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:01 +0000

Oops I missed number 1. Sorry :)

Caroline Schnapp commented on Possible to Suppress Cart on Some Pages

Caroline Schnapp — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:27:37 +0000

The add to cart still appears when the item is shown at the top of the frontpage collection. http://www.editorsstore.com/

You will have to edit index.liquid too. Same Liquid condition. You should be able to figure that one out.

As for 2nd question, what Jamie said.

Jamie commented on Possible to Suppress Cart on Some Pages

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:16:41 +0000

That's due to a bunch of mark-up errors in your html: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.editorsstore.com%2Fcollections%2Ffrontpage%2Fproducts%2Fflip-video-convertor

Clean those up and all should be well. HTH!

Jamie commented on RTE Beta- Unwanted Image Border

Jamie — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:13:34 +0000

Add this to the bottom of your Onyx stylesheet:

img{border:0!important}

Poppy commented on Different background colours in Onyx

Poppy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:13:59 +0000

nm, i finally figured it out! :)