I found one more easier way to communicate with back end system with client using ruby on rails and flash when I was working with one of my rubystar guy. Now one more way of ajaxing easily.


And I cannot forget to tell about SWFObject which is one of the great tool make flash developers life easier. This javascript piece of code in HTML helped me to communicate with flash variables and serverside data (like Rails objects) without diving into the my bulk of my code. If you are not using it then you are tring to makes your complicated.

<div id="myFlash"> Some text for google serach engine </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
   var currentTime = new Date(); 
    // this is avoid catching when append with flash files
   var filePath = "/myFlash.swf?"+currentTime.getSeconds();
   var foo= new SWFObject(filePath, "tutor", "683", "400", "8");
   foo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
   foo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "all");     
   foo.addVaraible("flash Variable", "<%= variable %>" ) 
   //your flash variable will updated with ruby variable
   foo.write("myFlash");
 </script>

I have been designing in IE 6 and firefox for long time. I was stuckup in many places with IE6 positioning system. I dont want to hack much of css to make it work in both browsers.


Thanks to MSFT IE7 which is almost comes in handy in look and feel as well as rendering the standards. Now my life made simpler with IE7 and FF which works well with my exciting css.

I have added sample conditional comments to separate between IE version:

<!--[if gte IE 6]>
    <link href="styleIE7.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
 <![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
    <link href="styleIE6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->
 <!--[if !IE]><!-->
    <link href="styleFireFox.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--<![endif]-->