Re: OT: EXE files in HTML?

Bob Cunningham spake thusly:

> On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 15:08:56 GMT, the Omrud
> <usenet.omrud@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > Bob Cunningham spake thusly:
>
> > > I would like to be able to put an EXE file at my Web
> > > site and have it executable by users through their
> > > browsers. Is there a way to do that, say by using
> > > JavaScript? (My experience with JavaScript has been
> > > quite limited.)
>
> > Do you want the exe to download and execute on the user's
> > PC or is it something more complex?
>
> I would hope that it would download temporarily and execute
> on the user's computer, effectively disappearing from there
> after execution. But I guess all I really want is for the
> slide show to execute upon one mouse click without the user
> knowing or caring what it's doing in detail.

If you want an exe to download and run, you need to inform the user
that he must choose "run from current location", but that's all - the
program will have to install itself in a temporary location so you
might want to include a clean-up routine. And, of course, it will
only execute on the type of machine it is compiled for.

> > BTW, if you want to create an online slideshow, I know
> > nothing better than JAlbum, which is free and contains
> > many templates including slide shows which automatically
> > change the picture (if required).
>
> Thanks very much. That sounds quite promising. But I need
> to learn more about it. People have different meanings for
> "slide show". I mean by it a file that when executed will
> show each of a group of pictures for some period (say five
> seconds each) and automatically step from one to the next.

Yes, JAlbum will do that amongst many other things.

Here, look at this - it took me about five minutes, including
selecting the images from my photo library.

http://www.omrud.com/slides/

The problem with creating an exe which shows all the photos is that
the user has to download all of it before it can be run on the local
PC, and he has to download all of it even if he's not interested in
some of the photos. With an html based album, the user can look at
the photos he wants and not fetch those he doesn't. And you can
offer a selection of quality levels. Beware of "full size image" on
the middle of the mid-sized photos as they link to the original
images which are 2 - 3 B each.

I haven't changed any of the settings from the ones I last used -
there are dozens of parameters which can be changed before generating
the html set.

--
David
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