Anybody interested in neat javascript/actionscript tricks should check this out. It’s a new website I’m creating for an organization called Dynamic Essentials. The neat part of it is the self-hiding flash movie. Once it’s through playing, actionscript is used to call “javascript:hideMovie();” (via the getURL function), which in turn slowly reduces the size of the DIV containing the flash as well as the flash object itself. (For the impatient, there’s a “Hide Movie” link in the upper right hand corner)

Note: If your DIV doesn’t contain a flash object, you could probably get by with just resizing the DIV.  However, a trait of flash is that when it’s embedded on a webpage, it’s always rendered on the top most layer.  It doesn’t matter if it’s container gets smaller, the flash object will not.

In debugging this, I found out that Internet Explorer uses the <OBJECT> tag for embedding flash, while Firefox uses the <EMBED> tag found within the <OBJECT> tag. So….long story short, to avoid throwing errors, the javascript had to detect which browser was being used and then determine which element needed to be resized.

Fun Stuff!

Lot’s of activity is happening on I-75 these days, but what is it all for? Well, if you thought they are expanding it…you’d be right. But, if you also thought the additional lanes would be free for everybody to use…you’d be wrong. =)

It turns out that the GDoT is adding in toll lanes with adjustable pricing. So, it may be $0.10/mile when I-75 is free and clear and $0.40/mile when it’s bumper to bumper hell.

For my typical ride to work that works out to about $2-$8 for a 20 mile, congestion free ride.

Typically, I don’t like toll roads, but I’d pay $8 to get out of the I-75 gridlock.

Looking at the small maps available at the website below, it looks as though the toll lanes will begin just south of 92 and before the Glade Road On/Off-Ramps.

http://tollroadsnews.info/artman/publish/article_1248.shtml

If you haven’t put in an answer of your own, please vote for mine in this contest. So far, I ‘ve got 4% of the vote with just 1 vote (there’s over 2000 entries/answers)! =)

Here’s the link to the exact page. I’m “Answerer 2012″, the one about the 9Rules Network.

So, I’ve spent the last week or so on vacation, a few days of which was spent in Panama City Beach, FL(I’m actually still on vacation till the 5th).

For those interested, I’ve setup a photo gallery, complete with my commentary, of all the images taken in Panama:

Panama Photos

Cheers!