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Hmmm....strange. It looks like in the build process, Flare replaces the x-m4v with mp4. But for some reason, that is now working in IE for me (on my desktop, anyway), whereas it definitely wasn't working this morning. I've asked MadCap for assistance and will update when they provide more info (will...

I think this might fix it - in the code for the video, add: type="video/x-m4v" after the src. Apparently, IE handles mp4 videos differently to the other browsers, so you need to set the type. I'm still having some issues getting this to run locally on a server though, but that could be dow...

I have a project that contains several mp4 videos. They work fine in Chrome and Firefox, but not IE. Unfortunately, the client is tied to using IE due to a nation-wide policy. Does anyone have a solution for getting mp4s to work in IE11? (I could convert the mp4s to a different format, but they also...

Support tell me that they can scale videos down when the video is created in a different product, so it is a bug with Mimic. Pretty major one in my opinion! Hopefully they will fix it soon and issue an update. Does anyone know of any good free screen capture programmes that produce content that can ...

I'm new to Mimic and am having the same problem as other people have mentioned in other threads (with no successful answers) - how can I get the movie made in Mimic to scale down? I want to have an embedded version of the flash movie a la YouTube but not at the full size at which it was recorded. I ...

Hi Dave I've been working on modifying the skin too and have a problem that affects your example too - when the help is resized to a small size, the search bar overlays the other stuff in the header. I asked a developer about this and they said that it is because MadCap use fixed values to define th...

Script is on the skin.

Hello everyone, I have a customised skin layout that includes a sidebar and a footer, but now the client requires an additional footer for contact details etc. I have added the footer, but it goes off the page and the browser doesn't seem to recognise that, so there's no scroll bars. I've tried expe...

Okay, I have it working now...god knows what I was doing yesterday.

I noticed that in your skin, you have a transparent logo image - why is that?

True, unless I want the sidebar to refresh with different images etc.

Sorry Dave, yes I meant I tried using your code in a project I am working on...maybe I have one of those other settings enabled and didn't realise. I will go check. I was a bit overtired when I tried and posted last night.

I will try again with fresh eyes today.

Actually, having tried that with logo images of different sizes, it isn't working right, either.

I'll get it sorted out and post again when I've tested it properly.

I've just tried using this to add the text to the right of the logo, but it only added the text to the top left, even with the css style sheets in place. I have got another solution that is working for me: $('<link>') .appendTo($('head')) .attr({type : 'text/css', rel : 'stylesheet'}) .attr('href', ...

Thanks, both.

I will give that a go.

I'm still working with a developer to do all these changes from a script, so will post the results when I can.

Hi I want to add a sidebar to the right-hand-side of the body, but can't remember how to do it (i'm sure I have done this before). As I want the sidebar to appear in every topic, I thought it would be a case of editing the masterpage so that there is a sidebar div after the bodyproxy, and then restr...

Awesome work. Madcap need to take a good look at this and integrate this into Flare itself. Your project describing how to do this looks soooo much better than anything you can do with Flare out of the box. The end of the ugly and restrictive skins must surely be in sight?

Right, thanks for that. I'll give it a try as soon as I can and see how it goes. If I can get this working, I'll owe you!

Well, some joy at last. I added the stylesheet script from your other post, created a skin.css and added styles for the background of the header. I also added the code you suggested for adding extra content to the header (exactly as you put it, just to see how/if it works). Result: background colour...

Got ya! Cheers.

I'll give that a go and see how I get on.

I had a discussion with someone at MadCap not so long ago and they mentioned getting rid of the skin in future releases. Can't come soon enough if you ask me! I'd much prefer a css-based TOC and a div layout editor.

Grrrr!!! I forgot that when Flare builds the output, it wipes the output folder and builds new stylesheets for the skin again - using the defaults + info from the skin file in Flare.

Any ideas on the best way around this?

That Firebug tip has helped a lot - thanks for that. I have almost managed to achieve what I want, just through editing the styles.css for the skin. What I really want to do now is add a DIV between the header and the body. I can add the div to the styles.css, but which file does flare use to determ...

Thanks, I will look into Firebug. What I really want to achieve is to: 1. Add a border to the bottom the header - I can do that 2. Add an extra DIV (or equivalent) between the top of the TOC and Body and the bottom of the header. 3. Make the background of the header a different colour to the backgro...

Thanks Dave. I had a play adding <divs> post build last night, and could add horizontal rules everywhere in the header apart from where I wanted - above the logo, top or bottom of search box were no problem, between header and body proved troublesome. And I don't want to edit post-build anyway if at...

Actually, it doesn't seem to be working. I guess because the new responsive templates work differently.

Sorry, JQuery. My mistake.