By Michael Flanakin on
4/25/2006
I just wanted to post some screenshots of the next IFrame release. Below, you will see the edit screen has been sectioned off into a set of options (all the old options, plus a few) and a list of dynamic querystring parameters. The view screen is the same, of course. One of the things you won't really notice in the screenshots, tho, is that I added complete localization support. Before, the drop-down options and a few random strings weren't localized...
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By Michael Flanakin on
4/24/2006
I just put the last touches on the IFrame release yesterday. I'm going to package it up and do a test deployment to re-validate the updates tonight. I may or may not finish all that tonight, but after that's been completed, I'll pass it on to the CT for review. Hopefully, you'll see another update by week's end, but know that the CT is very busy with the 3.3/4.1 release.
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By Michael Flanakin on
4/5/2006
Just a quick update on the IFrame Module's next release... I don't know what I was smoking when I thought this up, but the iframe target is going to have to be pushed back to another release. Granted, I only saw one comment on this, so I don't think anyone's really going to miss it; but, for some strange reason, I had it in my head that all I needed to do was add a target attribute to the iframe tag. I was about ready to start...
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By Michael Flanakin on
3/18/2006
Well, I've finally got a chance to put some time into the IFrame Module. I just have to figure out what's most important for the next release. I have 11 tasks in Gemini, 4 I've already already committed and 2 I don't plan on working in the next release. The other 5, tho, I'm still up in the air about. IFrame TargetAdding the target is fairly trivial and will have small benefits - I'll probably go ahead and add that anyway. The only thing I'm wondering about is how many options to give. The only time I've seen...
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By Michael Flanakin on
2/23/2006
In my last post, I mentioned the new rendering architecture I was working on for the Image Module. Well, I've been updating our design document to reflect those changes and that got me started on the whole multimedia support issue that we're working on. We've started an initial implementation that supports Flash and various Windows Media Player supported formats, but there are several more that we need to support (there's a survey currently...
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By Michael Flanakin on
2/17/2006
So, I've created a basic image provider and a generic implementation that simply uses the built-in Image control. That was all pretty simple. Next, to actually test it out, I had to update the Image module code to use the image provider. To do this, I decided to create a media control factory. Our current multimedia solution uses formatted strings to generate the tags necessary to render content with tracked settings. This solution will enable us to support any number of media types as long as the extension...
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By Michael Flanakin on
2/16/2006
I just finished with a long-awaited feature for the Image module - linking. Something so simple should never have taken so long  Oh well... It's been checked in and is ready for the review process. I'm not yet sure if it'll make it in the next release, but at least it's ready to...
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By Michael Flanakin on
2/3/2006
As you know, I've been looking into creating an image provider. Since the Image module is moving to support additional media types, I wanted to create a multimedia provider which would support various media types (i.e. images, audio, video, and Flash). My problem with creating a generic, all-encompassing multimedia provider is that third party tools which would utilize this provider are going to be specific. This means I'd need image, audio, video, and Flash providers. And, we can't forget that there'll be other...
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By Michael Flanakin on
1/25/2006
Looks like my first contribution to the Image module will be an image provider. The concept was suggested by a couple of core team members who use the ImageAdmin control. Apparently, the control allows a user to manipulate existing or newly uploaded images to resize, reposition, zoom in/out, and an array of other things. I've never used a tool like this, so I found it kind of interesting. What I need to do now is take a look at other image management/manipulation tools...
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