Andrew M. Gribble, LLC

Welcome to Andrew M. Gribble, LLC. With over ten years of multimedia development experience, I have worked with clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. My main areas of expertise are Lingo/Director, and Dreamweaver/JavaScript development.


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Friday, January 03, 2003
Photoshop 8.0 To Support Video
A recent
article at ExtremeTech reports that Photoshop 8 will support NTSC and PAL video. Is this the beginning of the end for Adobe's video editing program Premiere?
 

Thursday, January 02, 2003
 

Wednesday, January 01, 2003
Popup Ads: 99% Bad
What's more annoying than a Website with popup windows? Web pages that have code which
opens a new window when you leave the site or close the browser window...
Developers have been tweaking the popup window technique for quite some time, so that in addition to popups, Web surfers also encounter pop under windows and inline ads.

There are lots of sites which make available free JavaScript code which will do things like:
 

Tuesday, December 31, 2002
What's Up With Director MX's Preferences?
Even though a big part of the marketing of the MX product line is the standardization of various panels and menu options in the various MX products, there are still things which operate very differently based on which MX product you're using. Take the Preferences, for example.

In Dreamweaver, clicking Edit-->Preferences (or typing Control +U) brings up a dialog box with 20 options listed vertically on the left side of the dialog box. Clicking any of the options changes the preference items shown on the right side of the dialog box.

In Flash and Fireworks, clicking Edit-->Preferences (or typing Control +U) brings up a dialog box with five tabs arranged horizontally across the top of the dialog box.

In Director, clicking Edit-->Preferences opens a submenu with eight options. [Clicking Control +U brings up the first submenu item (General).] Each submenu option opens a dialog box with options for the item selected.

In addition to not looking like the other MX product Preference dialog boxes, Director's Preferences don't behave the way those in the other MX products do. It is impossible to switch between the different Preference options in Director. Instead, the user has to hit OK or Cancel, then select Edit-->Preferences and choose another one of the eight submenu items.

Is this an example of something which should have been changed before the release of Director MX, but which for some reason was left unchanged? Can we expect the way Director's Preferences work to change when Director 10.0 comes out, or will the Preferences in Director always be different from those in other MX apps?
 

Monday, December 30, 2002
 
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