Question/Brainstorm

JacobHaug · #1 Jan 3rd, 2007, 10:07

Ok, I am building a website for a client. This website is going to be a fully XHTML/CSS website. But I seem to be having a slight problem with one part. This group really wants a music player, I told them the pros and cons, but since it is really a private website...who cares, cause that is what the group wants.

They want the player to keep playing the music through out their whole website, but the music player will stop unless I do frames....right? But I don't want to use frames, anyone have any other bright ideals?

cullinanweb · #2 Jan 3rd, 2007, 10:51

Another idea would be to put the music player in a pop up maybe. However it may be blocked by the users pc, but maybe better than frames.

JacobHaug · #3 Jan 3rd, 2007, 11:04

Well, I am not using frames, already went though the pop up idea, but not to happy with that either. Any other ideas?

cullinanweb · #4 Jan 3rd, 2007, 11:08

not really, i have come across this issue before and went with the pop up / under. Its a shame there is no way of calling a page into a div really, but then thats just frames so...

well am rambling now anyway...but good luck and let me know what you come up with as i will no doubt come accross this issue again

moojoo · #5 Jan 3rd, 2007, 13:13

couldn't you use like an iFrame in a div? Would be easy to fit etc...

JacobHaug · #6 Jan 3rd, 2007, 13:21

I was under the impression that frames are bad...and also bad for SEO. I guess it would not matter for just like the bottom of every page or something...but well...what do you guys think?

cullinanweb · #7 Jan 3rd, 2007, 14:02

correct me if i am wrong but are iframes widely unsupported in older browsers??

moojoo · #8 Jan 3rd, 2007, 15:04

Like he said, "but since it is really a private website" if he knows what it will be run on and its an intranet site I think an Iframe would be acceptable. I hate frames, and if there was a way to do some kind of include instead of using a frame to keep the player going without refreshing on every page I would love to know about it. Or go with a small pop up. Most blockers will allow pop ups if the user initiates them.

Ryan Fait · #9 Jan 4th, 2007, 09:30

Ajax, baby.

moojoo · #10 Jan 4th, 2007, 14:35

Forgot about the jax heh.

spinal007 · #11 Jan 4th, 2007, 15:54

That was I was going to suggest... Let me introduce you to Ajax, your new best friend.

Here's what I recommend:
<a href="page2.asp" onclick="GetContent('page2.html'); return false;">page 2</a>

Where...
1. The links work as usual for search engines and browsers without JS. Search engines will index the pages as usual.
2. Users with JS enabled will not follow the link.
3. Instead, Ajax will ask the server for the content of the page and you can update you xHtml accordingly (which will have the same effect as an iFrame, only a lot more Web2.0! LOL)

page2.asp has something like:
<html>
<head>
<title>Page 2</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

page2.html has something like:
<h1>Page title</h1>
<p>A pararaph</p>

GetContent is a JS function that will use ajax to retrive the server response for page2.html.

Easy peasy! LOL

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