I need a video to automatically pop up, ideally in a lightbox. It needs to automatically pop up when a user first visits the page, play the video then close. I also need a button to play again if needed. I also only want this video to play the first time a person visits the homepage, so when you navigate back to the homepage it will not play again.
Diodeus has a good point. The stack overflow community is to help specific questions, not to write programs for each other.
You have a number of needs, and I will try to help you sort them out:
Embedded Video
Lightbox
Automatic Popup
Stored State
Embedding videos can be a challenge. Quickly searching TheGoogle (embed a video) gives me this link:
http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Everything_You_Ever_Needed_To_Know_About_Video_Embedding
I did not read it, but the point is you can find many resources for video embedding.
Lightbox
There are many lightbox scripts ( http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/ ), you will have to slog through them to find one that you like.
Automatic Popup
If you're using jQuery I would suggest the jQuery.ready function.
Stored State
To see if a user has visited the homepage before, I would suggest setting a cookie. http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
Related
I am creating a website that alerts when certain events happen with an audible alert. Since the arrival of chrome 66 it is not possible to play audio without the user making a gesture. For me this is a big problem, I was searching but I did not find any solid solution.
For example Youtube. When entering a link in the browser, the video starts automatically, without any user gesture. How do they do it?
It also occurred to me to ask for permission for the browser to allow automatic audio playback. Something like: "Notification.requestPermission ()". But I couldn't find how
When you navigate to a YouTube video link within YouTube itself, it doesn't actually navigate to a new page. YouTube uses a library called Structured Page Fragments (SPF) to render only relevant parts that need to be changed. Because of this, the browser doesn't consider this as a newly navigated page, and allows YouTube to automatically play videos with audio.
For example, from the Homepage, when you click a video in the Subscription box, this counts as a user interaction. The page then loads the fragments required to watch the video using SPF and - because the user is in the same navigation context as far as the browser is concerned - plays the video automatically with audio.
However, if you load the same video in a new navigation context (such as using a link from an external site, or opening it directly in a new tab) users will still need to interact with the page - in this case by clicking the video - to get audio. Once this is done, because the user has now interacted with the page and other videos are dynamically loaded using SPF, further interaction is not required for other videos to play automatically with audio in that navigation context.
Note that you don't need to specifically use SPF to achieve this effect. You can use libraries such as Angular and Vue to change views with a click event, and these should still count as the user having interacted with the page.
I am working on a client site where the client has requested that there be a button (basic a link) that links to another page like google, in case an abusive significant other busts into the room while a woman is reading about how to get assistance. The tricky part is that I am trying to figure out to link to a page that will open int he same windows, but no let you go back to the site by clicking the browser's back button, or show up in "history". I have built a lot of website and never heard of this being possible without the use of a custom browser extension or something.
My question is ..
Is there a way to do this? Possible some JS magic? Just wondering
You're looking for location.replace().
<button onclick='location.replace("https://www.google.com");'>Click to close</button>
Instead of creating a new entry in browser history, it replaces the current one.
Note: Unfortunately, it's blocked by [SO]. But just try it in your app. It does work.
Second note: If you combine this with initially opening the to be hidden page in a new tab (target="_blank") => no history.
However, the best method and advice for such cases is browsing in incognito: Ctrl+Shift+N. Once closed, it's gone, with all history in the session. Pressing Ctrl+Shift+T in a new browser window won't bring the formerly opened tabs back.
IMHO, this technique should be clearly detailed in the "Precautions" section of your client's website, also advising on having another "normal" browsing session opened in a background browser window, with a few neutral tabs open on subjects that wouldn't raise any suspicions: cooking recipes, things for children, cosmetics, etc...
I am not sure about your question.
But on click you can open Iframe
<iframe src="www.google.com" style="border:none;"></iframe>
Is this even possible? To have an mp3 play where it left off when you navigate to a different page on the same website? I seriously don't even know where to begin. Kind of new to HTML, CSS, etc.
Any Ideas? Thanks.
Not across multiple page loads. But you can have a single page which plays audio and provides navigation therein for the user. A couple overarching structural options would include:
Create a Single Page Application (SPA). Here your one "page" would play the audio, and the site navigation would happen within this single page instance with JavaScript/AJAX. The browser would only ever load one "page", but the overall application would dynamically load/unload as elements of that page as you see fit.
(A very old method, but still works) Create a parent page with frames for navigation. The parent (frame) page would contain the audio, and the rest of the navigation through the application would be done in frames within that page.
I'd recommend the first approach, but either would work.
If you reload the entire page (and therefore the audio source), there is no way to provide a seamless playback. There will always be a very noticeable gap due to page load times, even if you try to keep track of the position within the audio track. Slow internet connections will make it worse.
Instead, you can embrace one of those four options:
Single Page App:
As also pointed out by David, my suggestion would be to create a single page application, i.e. a page that loads once, then loads/replaces all additional content dynamically. One the user clicks a navigation link, instead of loading a new page (or reloading the current page), you just replace the main content, using AJAX. The part that provides the audio stays in place.
Additional tab/popup/window
You could create an additional tab, popup window or window just for the sake of playing the audio. One example of this is the German radio station "radioeins". At the time of writing, their website provides an orange button in the top right that will open a popup window for their live stream, allowing the user to continue browsing their website with the music continuing to play uninterruptedly from the popup. I would only go down this route if the single page app is not an option, as popups or additional tabs are bad UX and popups might be blocked by browsers.
iframe
You could provide the main content of your page within an iframe, or the other way round, provide the audio from within an iframe. I would recommend against this, as there are several disadvantages to this approach.
Frames
Frames would provide a similar approach to iframes, but they are deprecated, so I strongly recommend against this one as well.
tl;dr
Make it a single page application if you can, otherwise resort to a popup-solution.
I've seen a lot of questions and answers here that help you too embed PDF documents, but they are all "vertical read", where you scroll down to see other pages.
Is there any plugin, or maybe even a simple script that would help you to embed and read the PDF document horizontaly? Like where you see two pages and click next on top to see the next two.
Just like a book. (No fancy animations though)
Thanks.
There are plugins that lets you read pdf documents. But they might be fancy.
http://www.jqueryrain.com/2012/09/best-jquery-pdf-viewer-plugin-examples/
or
http://fliphtml5.com/free-pdf-to-jquery-flipbook.php
I like the last one especially
You can set the initial view of a PDF to show two pages.
If you add Fullscreen view to that, and the user has not deactivated clicking to the next page, it actually should give the effect you want (not verified).
If the Fullscreen view does not work, your user would use the cursorLeft and cursorRight buttons to navigate.
I got two swf files. One of them is clickTag enabled, and other is not. I must put them in Wordpress site. I'm using adrotate plugin for banners management. Is there a way to know when the banner is clicked,so that i could changed click counter in adrotate manualy?
Well after some help at the work, i think I've answer. if you change jQuery("a.gofollow").click for jQuery("a.gofollow").mousedown in adrotate plugin clicktracker.js code, it starts to track clicks on flash banners. More explanation can be found there Track a click on a flash movie (object / embed) with jQuery