Dreamweaver bloat?

**George** · Jan 17, 2001 11:10

Just wondering if you guys think that when you see alot of 'mm' javascript stuff in source code that it:

1) indicates the use of Dreamweaver behaviours
2) is usually far too bloated

example:

"function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)

George

**cckrocks** · Jan 17, 2001 13:01

It is proprietary Macromedia javascript code. The reason why it is bloated is becuase it is a global script that can perform many tasks, and works in many browsers. IF you prefer no to see it, just cut it out and dump it in an external file. Then you can refer to it in other documents also without the client having to reload it.

**Nicky** · Jan 17, 2001 13:23

I can always spot Dreamweaver code a mile away. It si quite funny when my students swear they did their work in NotePad but you can really tell if they didn't

**Elledan** · Jan 17, 2001 14:07

Nicky, I don't think that it would be exaggerated to say that you can smell Word HTML code from half a light-year away

I personally think that DreamWeaver codes very neat, and in most cases even better than the average person could do manually.

**Nicky** · Jan 17, 2001 15:51

ahhhhhhhhh, Word code - it stinks (literally)

**Megs** · Jan 17, 2001 17:02

I think:

1. This page was made with Dreamwevaer. Good choice.
2. Either
a) the designer doesn't know that DW writes bloated javascript
b) the designer doesn't know Javascript and therefore must use DW's behaviors to add scripting or
c) the author wanted to save time by using DW's built-in scripts rather than writing thim him/herself.

There's nothing wrong with any of the above if you ask me. It could be a lot worse.

**gthorley** · Jan 17, 2001 23:57

Nice clean looking site Megan. All it needs is a wavy Canadian flag gif.

If you want one let me know or you can grab one of our new site index page which is in test stage.
http://www.artbyjudy.com/test/index11.html

Another proud Canuck

**dominique** · Jan 18, 2001 08:34

Wow, this is turning into the all canadian post!

I was wondering if cckrocks or anyone else could tell me how do call js code in an external file since I don't know any javascript (rather unfortunately).

Thanx a lot!

Canada all the way baby!

(They should put the canadian flag in the smilies list, just a thought...)

**cckrocks** · Jan 18, 2001 13:32

Just take all the code between the <script blah, blah, blah> and </script> tags and move it into a separate text file and name it with the extension ".js" like rollover.js for example. Then all you need to do is write 1 line to call the script. Here's a lot of code, but it's actually with a Macromedia rollover script...

Code:

...
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/JavaScript" src="javascript/rollover.js"></script>
</head>
...

and here's the actual .js file (notice you don't need the <script></script> tags inside the file...

Code:

<!--
function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}
function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v3.0
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document); return x;
}
function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}
//-->

and there it is, laid out for you. All you have to do is change the path to the file to wherever you put the file. Sorry to Macromedia for posting their code, but you can get it just about anywhere.

**cckrocks** · Jan 18, 2001 13:34

I'm not from Canada

**George** · Jan 18, 2001 17:48

Hey CCKROCKS
I want to do the '.js in a separate file thing' for a date script, but the script sits inside a table in the body (rather than in the head) so I can place it in a specific spot. My question is - how would I call the script so it is still located in the correct spot?

thanks
George
another spy for Canada

**cckrocks** · Jan 18, 2001 18:52

You just have to move the script call from the head to whereever you had the full script at. Just take the line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="rollover.js"></script> and move wherever you need to call the script. Just make the src="xxxx.js" whatever the path of the external file is.

**honging** · Jan 18, 2001 20:08

I don't like Macromedia Dreamweaver too much... I still stick to Frontpage '98 for all my webdesigning purposes. True, it's not powerful, but it's great for nesting tables, which is what I use it for

Plus it formats teh HTML neatly... it's funny though, because I have Dreamweaver installed for one purpose: rollovers. Gawd, I hate coding them rollovers

**Nicky** · Jan 18, 2001 20:24

Originally posted by honging
I still stick to Frontpage '98 for all my webdesigning purposes...Plus it formats the HTML neatly

You are joking right?

**cckrocks** · Jan 19, 2001 00:47

I hope so too

...and coding rollovers is actually alot easier than it seems. Plus, the code is about 1/4 the size.

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