Does Zoomify Design work with Dreamweaver?
Absolutely. Dreamweaver allows web designers to easily and productively create web pages and support for Flash – and thus for Zoomify – is a key benefit of working with Dreamweaver. A common frustration, however, is that Dreamweaver’s support for Flash Player is not absolutely complete. The most important example of this incomplete support is that Dreamweaver does not present the ‘FlashVars’ parameter – which is natively supported by Flash Player – in its properties palette for Flash objects. The FlashVars parameter is very useful because it allows a web page to pass a value into a Flash movie for that movie to use internally. The FlashVars parameter is how any web page tells the Zoomify Viewer what Zoomify Image to display. In practice, the fact that Dreamweaver’s Flash object properties palette doesn’t present the FlashVars parameter for entry simply means that Dreamweaver users must briefly switch from Design View to Code View and manually type in the parameter in the page’s HTML. T
