Hi Peter,
do you remember that when I told you that I want to integrate a complex simulation learning programm with .LRN? It's a client-server application with an Java applet that is served by .LRN as a client. Now to customize the external application I thought of being able to set variables in the html that are interpreted by .LRN and filled with the right values before the page is served to the user.
For example:
<OBJECT classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
width="600" height="440" align="baseline"
codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/jinstall-13-win32.cab#Version=1,3,0,0">
<PARAM NAME="code" VALUE="PDilemma.class">
<PARAM NAME="codebase" VALUE="/vwl/">
<PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="application/x-java-applet;version=1.3">
<PARAM NAME="scriptable" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="firstname" VALUE="{first_name}">
<PARAM NAME="lastname" VALUE="{last_name}">
No Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.3 support for APPLET!!
</OBJECT>
What you see here is the object tag to run a Java applet within a HTML page. The param tag passes info to the applet and the browser about where to find the source code of the applet but also applet initialization data.
Now the to variables first_name and last_name are only to give you an idea how it could look like. This would also be of interest for flash applets or any other html embedded object that is able to read initializing parameters.
Greetings,
Nima
