Re: image gallery

Thanks for all your feedback Bob.
You have helped understand much more about the issues and my own shortcomings.
But... I still need some help
Can you point me in the direction of a product that allows me to cycle
pictures like the FP Banner web component but will be visible to users of the
latest MS software? (the consesus of opinion garnered from this site appears
to be Java script can be used succesfully)
As I have zero ability/experience writing code I need a product that works
on the same principles as FP - i.e fill in the boxes and click apply or
better still the insert command!

Thank you for taking a look at my question

"Bob Lehmann" wrote:

is not secure as it uses Java

Being in Java doesn't usually / neccessarily mean insecure. The biggest
problem is that MS operating no longer include Java by default, meaning that
the typical user will not have Java installed, and therefore will not be
able to see Java based items.

Javascript, is this the same stuff that has been used to put together
the FP Banner web component?

No.

Finally - as a naive IT person
If you're naive, you are not an IT person.

I am surprised that a feature so simple as cycling through a number of
pictures

If it's so simple, why have you not written your own? Why is it, that
whenever someone proclaims that something is simple, they don't know how to
implement the simple thing themselves?

what went wrong and why have microsoft not solved the problem of security

The supposed "security problem" is not a MS problem. Sun is in control of
java.

which has resulted in new computers not being able to see it anymore?

See above. Java is no longer installed by default on MS operating systems.
You are certainly free to go and download & install Java yourself. Also, it
is not available any more, not because of security concerns, but because MS
wants to use an extended version of Java which infringes on Sun's patent.

Bob Lehmann


"threademporium" <threademporium@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Using FP 2002 with Xp prof.
1. Have recently learnt that the FP web component called "banner" is not
secure as it uses Java, further many new computers are shipped without
ability to view this FP feature.
2. I have been refered to a site called dynamicdrive.com to get hold of
plug
ins that offer the same functionality as the "banner" feature.
My issues are
1. dynamic drive.com offers a large choice of plug ins, however they all
seem to use Javascript, is this the same stuff that has been used to put
together the FP Banner web component? Could you give me a liitle info on
what
looks like a good java and bad java situation
2. the plug ins on the dynamic drive site come with pictures from the
author
of the plug in, obviously i need to change these to my pictures. they tell
me
I need no code writing knowledge to utilise these plug ins, but I cannot
even
begin to understand how to change the pictures over. Can you advise an
online
site that I can visit to understand how to do this?
3. Finally - as a naive IT person I am surprised that a feature so simple
as
cycling through a number of pictures seems so difficult to achieve. The FP
banner feature was so simple to use... what went wrong and why have
microsoft
not solved the problem of security which has resulted in new computers not
being able to see it anymore? Or have they fixed it and i can get the FP
banner feature back in some other shape or form?

Thanks for taking a look at my questions

Dave



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