Smart Blocks Screencast
28/05/07 22:28 Filed in: Cool Stuff
If you've been hungry for more info on Blocks 3.0 you may have
noticed a few links in the sidebar while
visiting the Blocks page. One of the
pages has the details on Smart Blocks.
Down at the bottom of the page there's even a
Blocks Library block to download. It's a very
simple flash embedding block, but it does show
a couple of cool things: it builds a GUI for
an HTML block, it alters the HTML with
properties from the block itself, and it uses
the GUI to replace the asset file name.
As simple as it is, however, Smart Blocks are still pretty foreign. So I decided to produce a little screencast showing at least how to USE a smart block. How to CREATE a smart block is for some upcoming screencast. But this screencast will get us halfway there.
Check it out and let us know what you think: Watch it!
NB: This library block does embed flash on a Blocks page, but this isn't really the recommended way to go about it. Building a xHTML/CSS strict version is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
As simple as it is, however, Smart Blocks are still pretty foreign. So I decided to produce a little screencast showing at least how to USE a smart block. How to CREATE a smart block is for some upcoming screencast. But this screencast will get us halfway there.
Check it out and let us know what you think: Watch it!
NB: This library block does embed flash on a Blocks page, but this isn't really the recommended way to go about it. Building a xHTML/CSS strict version is left as an exercise to the reader. ;-)
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