Hi all!
So, I haven’t been writing lately.. busy as hell and no time for this cyber-crap.
But because I’m such a nice guy, I’ll share something I’ve discovered after hours and hours of pissing off - HTML presentation on a CD.
Well, bunch of you guys sure had a multi-million offer to make a complete Web site and put it on CD (yeah right! :) - so that the ones who haven’t Internet ‘wire’ can see it :). So, you make HTML and put it on CD and what happens? It sure would be nice if the complete thing loads automatically with CD insert in your optic-o-drive.
Of course, you’ll rush to Flash and make an ‘projector‘ file - WRONG!!!
It works fine (presuming you have paid nice money for that legal piece of shi.. software) if you use Internet Explorer.
But you have at least a bit of a brain and you use Firefox. And what happens? - CRAPOLA!
To make long story short - your solution is good old DOS…
The next procedure was tested on WinXP and Win98 successfully.
- in autorun.inf file insert statement (copy one from any other CD with some auto-run program to see how) that you’ll run a .bat file which you’re about to make
- create a .bat file (say ‘autorun.bat‘) with following code:
@echo Loading CD…
@start index.html
@exit
A bit of explanation:
- echo - if someone doesn’t know what echo does and he/she makes a HTML/CD presentation, he shoud now press ALT+F4 :). It’s nice to write this as info message to user who runs your CD (so that he doesn’t think that the computer froze or something :)).
- start - it runs your page that you chose as home page (index.html in this case). It is tested with htm/html pages (as for asp/php, you can’t start it just like that anyway). I would like to know what happens if the computer haven’t got any browser installed :)
- exit - when ’start’ command is finished, it closes DOS console window.
As for Mac/Linux users, they couldn’t run .exe file (Flash projector) anyway :)
If I saved anybody’s life with this, he owes me a beer :)