Adding A Flash Header

[Jeffro]

Shane recently changed his static image header to a flash based one. On his site, he published the steps he took to do this as he used jQuery.

http://bugssite.org/blog/2009/05/06/...header-online/

Looks like he has more posts on the way regarding how he did it. I want to see him animate the rabbit to go into a hole or something lol.

[Shane]

I corrected one mistake. The first bit of code goes into functions.php file. :D

And yes.. the rabbit will go into a hole.

[itsananderson]

I'm not a huge fan of Flash, but if you want to do an animated header (very annoying by the way) this would be a good solution. I like the fact that if Flash is disabled, an image is used instead.

[Shane]

I have a "switch" in the common.js to disable the flash header all together during testing phases. (http://bugssite.org/wp-content/theme...e/js/common.js). The XML file loading is the achilles heal since it takes about .02 seconds longer than everything else. So the top part looks nutz. I been trying to solve that by having the XML document loading sequence tied into a pre-loader so when that is loaded and the flash movie itself... it then shows. Still working on that part. :)

[andrea_r]

At least it degrades nicely. :) (No Flash here. )

[Jeffro]

oh knows how can you not have flash! All that YouTube goodness you're missing! I'm very happy to have seen the flash header craze die although I enjoy seeing it used tastefully.

[andrea_r]

Yeah, I'm on a 64-bit Linux build. No Flash. :) I have to visit a different computer for that, and mostly I'm lazy.

:D

[Shane]

My flash not going to be ever "racy". Just simple animation that make eyes pleasing. If you changed your clock to lets say 6:34am, you will see the "sunrise" vs. 3pm where it's mostly been the same gradient for the past 5 hours.