5 Loaves & 2 Fishes

See what you can do with one of these (if the music doesn't drive you crazy first).

What about .flv, is it the same as .swf?

No, they're different. Basically, .flv is a streaming file i.e. you can have it playing in your browser then hop backwards or forwards through the file at will (as on YouTube etc), whereas .swf is a complete movie that downloads first then plays in your browser from beginning to end without the option (as above).

Ok, I never did understand the different until now. Cool.

I downloaded the swf: mammyblue2.swf.sit

Then I uploaded to my google page. What I have, then when I lick on the swf on my google page, is a download, not a url.

How do I get it to have a url?

Here's where we drive into the mire right up to the axles. If you can't get the URL directly, one indirect way is to look at the source code for the page. In Firefox it's View -> Page Source, but I don't know what it is in Safari (can't be too much different).

Then you need to hunt around until you find something with .swf in it. I went to the page given in the above link, stopped my ears with wax, then had a look at the code. I found this:

See the bit with .swf on the end? It occurs twice, and that's the URL you want. Thus:

So now I put it in my Flash and centre tags:

et voila!

As before, right click to play. [Note to self: why doesn't it play automatically?]

Does it matter what page I look for the source?

My google page or the page you linked?
Why do some things that I upload to my page provide a new url and some things give only a download window?

No, it doesn't matter which. As long as you've got a .swf file playing on the screen, you can view the source for that page and get a URL. That's the main thing at this stage; we're only practising.
Without an example or two (" ... Only to find some peace of mind, We have to have'n'example or two. You've got to have'n'example or two, boys, You've got to have'n'example or two"), I should say it depends on the file type your browser is capable of displaying. For example, a Web browser is capable of displaying text and images, so text files and image files will be displayed. It can't deal with spreadsheets, though, so in that case it throws in the towel and asks you to download the file.

I admire your perseverance, tangl - let's see it through.

We're on the last lap now, looking at the special formatting buttons in the second row. The left-most one is marked Hebrew:

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This was created because the Hebrew characters, when typed normally, were small and therefore difficult to read. The Hebrew button simply chooses a different font and a larger size than normal text. It does NOT produce Hebrew characters from a standard keyboard - you have to choose the input language, and instructions for that are given here. So to use this facility:

1. Type in the Hebrew text
2. Highlight it
3. Click the Hebrew button

Here is some Hebrew text as typed: שלום ובקר טוב

Here is the same text formatted with the Hebrew button: שלום ובקר טוב

And this is what happens to English text: This is ordinary English text

Please visit the "Learning Hebrew" topic.