Hi

How does the Economist do that?

The economist has some great audio clips on their site. But I cant see
how the page works.
Sorry to be dumb, but is it all done with Javascript? Or Java... or
Flash... or what?

http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_...b08/doingbusin

Even the city names dont seem to be visible in the source code...

We have a travel site and we were thinking of linking to one of their
audio clips... but we cant see how to link to a specific audio clip.

Any thoughts?


Ship
Shiperton Heneteh

On Feb 18, 10:42am, ship <ship...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> How does the Economist do that?
>
> The economist has some great audio clips on their site. But I cant see
> how the page works.
> Sorry to be dumb, but is it all done with Javascript? Or Java... or
> Flash... or what?
>
> http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_...92da6c1cf37692...
>
> Even the city names dont seem to be visible in the source code...
>
> We have a travel site and we were thinking of linking to one of their
> audio clips... but we cant see how to link to a specific audio clip.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Ship
> Shiperton Heneteh

P.S. Anyone know what the copyright situation would be for such deep
linking?
I imagine if we provide traffic to one of their pages that would be
fine.
But if we did so with an IFRAME that would not... ?

Ship
Shiperton Henethe

ship wrote:

> Hi
>
> How does the Economist do that?
>
> The economist has some great audio clips on their site. But I cant see
> how the page works.
> Sorry to be dumb, but is it all done with Javascript? Or Java... or
> Flash... or what?
>
> http://audiovideo.economist.com/?fr_...b08/doingbusin
>
> Even the city names dont seem to be visible in the source code...
>
> We have a travel site and we were thinking of linking to one of their
> audio clips... but we cant see how to link to a specific audio clip.
>
> Any thoughts?

Well, if you look at the text on the right side of the audio clip,
there's a button "embed".
If you click it, they provide the source code to embed it on your
site.

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Els http://locusmeus.com/

ship wrote:

[audio clips on economist.com]
> P.S. Anyone know what the copyright situation would be for such deep
> linking?
> I imagine if we provide traffic to one of their pages that would be
> fine.
> But if we did so with an IFRAME that would not... ?

They would - one of their two ways to embed the clip has the iframe
code ready for you :-)


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Els http://locusmeus.com/

On Feb 18, 10:58am, Els <els.aNOS...@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> ship wrote:
>
> [audio clips on economist.com]
>
> > P.S. Anyone know what the copyright situation would be for such deep
> > linking?
> > I imagine if we provide traffic to one of their pages that would be
> > fine.
> > But if we did so with an IFRAME that would not... ?
>
> They would - one of their two ways to embed the clip has the iframe
> code ready for you :-)

Ah-ha! Gotcha.

Yes... the only problem is that there is a horrid ad for CISCO that
they insist
on serving up before the more interesting stuff (from the Economist)


Ship
Shiperton Henethe

ship wrote:
> On Feb 18, 10:58Âam, Els <els.aNOS...@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>> ship wrote:
>>
>> [audio clips on economist.com]
>>
>> one of their two ways to embed the clip has the iframe
>> code ready for you :-)
>
> Yes... the only problem is that there is a horrid ad for CISCO that
> they insist on serving up before the more interesting stuff (from
> the Economist)

If I just take the url from the iframe and paste it in the address
bar, I don't get any ad - maybe cause I'm not in the UK?

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