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<DIV>If it were me, I would make the thumbnail/button as a flash movie swf. I
would make the link with the _blank paramater to ensure that the movie opened in
a new window:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>myButton_mc.onRelease = function(){</DIV>
<DIV> getURL("myVideo.html", _blank);</DIV>
<DIV>};</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The movie will open in it's own browser window or tab, and the user can
close it when finished, revealing the original window that you wanted to
return to. If you are unsure of your visitor's browser skill level, you can add
a line on the page with the button saying 'Click here to view movie - when
finished, close the movie window to return here', or on the movie page, put text
saying, 'close window when finished.' - Just like the 'Cards' on your own
website. You click on a card, it opens in a new window/tab, and when finished
you close that window/tab and the page you came from is displayed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Hopefully you are encoding your movie as a progressive flv file and
'streaming' it through a flash flv player? (of course, embedding it on the
page with SWFObject.) </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You can have a javascript call attempt to re-direct a browser window from
the flash movie when it is finished, but I haven't found any that works across
all of the different browsers.</DIV>
<DIV>jimbo</DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY SEPARATOR
***********<BR><BR>On 10/21/2006 at 7:26 PM Richard Kulies wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><STRONG>Hi
Jimbo,</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><STRONG>First thank you for your very
prompt response.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><STRONG>I have put an example with an
explanation of what I want to do at the following link.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><STRONG>I as I'm sure most people use
my own page to experiment.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.richardkulies.com/Testpage_movie.html" target=_blank
rel=nofollow _><FONT face="times new roman" color=#003399
size=3><STRONG>http://www.richardkulies.com/Testpage_movie.html</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><STRONG>Please feel free to look at
my own site at </STRONG></FONT><A href="http://www.richardkulies.com/"
target=_blank rel=nofollow _><FONT face="times new roman" color=#003399
size=3><STRONG>www.richardkulies.com</STRONG></FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="times new roman" size=3><STRONG>Once again thanks for your
help.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="times new roman"
size=3><STRONG>Richard</STRONG></FONT></DIV><BR><BR>Richard
Kulies<BR><BR>E-Mail: richardkulies@yahoo.com<BR>richardkulies@msn.com
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