Backstage 1.0 April 1996 This file contains late-breaking information about Backstage 1.0 for Windows. For the most up-to-date information about Backstage please visit our Web site at http://www.macromedia.com/. This download version is for evaluation only. Please read the license.txt file which is installed with Backstage. Contents -------- 1. Backstage Installation 2. A Note on Windows NT Installation 3. A Note on Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Installation 4. A Note on Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Uninstall 5. HTML Validation 6. HTML Comment Tag 7. Image Maps 8. Configuring Backstage Designer as Default Editor for HTML files 9. ActiveX Support 1. Backstage Installation ------------------------- To install Backstage, launch SETUP.EXE. The Install Wizard will guide you through the installation process. 2. A Note on Windows NT Installation ------------------------------------ Before installing Backstage on Windows NT, you must log on to your Windows NT system as the administrator, or as a user with the full rights of the administrator. In subsequent Windows NT sessions you must continue to log on with administrator rights in order to access your Backstage configuration. After the administrator has installed Backstage, users who log on as someone other than the administrator must enter the path to the document root the first time they use Backstage. 3. A Note on Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Installation -------------------------------------------------------------------- Backstage requires Win32s on Windows 3.1 or 3.11. If you do not currently have Win32s installed, the Backstage installer will install it for you automatically. The program items in the Backstage program group will appear as generic program icons. To set the proper the icons for Backstage after installation - Select Backstage Designer in the Macromedia Backstage program group. - Choose Properties from the File Menu. - Click OK. The correct icon should appear. Repeat these steps for the Backstage Manager icon. 4. A Note on Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.11 for Workgroups Uninstall ----------------------------------------------------------------- There is a known issue with the Uninstall Wizard on Windows 3.1 or 3.11 which causes a pop-up dialog box to state: "cannot find CTL3D.DLL". Press Enter or click OK, and the uninstall will proceed as it should. 5. HTML Validation ------------------ Backstage Designer conforms strictly to the Hypertext Markup Language 2.0 specification, RFC 1866, published in November 1995. All HTML entered manually in HTML Source mode or opened into Designer from a pre-existing HTML file will be validated by Designer according to this specification. This ensures that each file created or edited by Designer will be reliably interpreted by all web browsers. If Designer encounters improperly formatted HTML, a dialog will appear listing the errors encountered. After the dialog is dismissed, Designer will attempt to fix the errors. To access the HTML 2.0 specification, point your web browser to the URL http://www.w3.org/. 6. HTML Comment Tag ------------------- Using the HTML comment tag, you may enter comments or notations in your HTML code that will not appear in Designer’s WYSIWYG mode or in the end user’s web browser. To enter a comment into your web page, choose HTML Source from the Edit menu in Designer. You may manually enter the comment tag and comment in HTML Source mode. The syntax for a comment looks like this: Additional comments may be entered within a comment tag in this way: The following is an excerpt from section 3.2.5 of the HTML 2.0 Specification which further clarifies comment construction. Deviations from this format may cause unexpected results within Designer. Please take note of and adhere to these guidelines: To include comments in an HTML document, use a comment declaration. A comment declaration consists of `'. Each comment starts with `--' and includes all text up to and including the next occurrence of `--'. In a comment declaration, white space is allowed after each comment, but not before the first comment. The entire comment declaration is ignored. For example: HTML Comment Example

7. Image Maps ------------- - Relative URLs in image maps are not supported by all web servers. To ensure maximum compatibility, the Browse button on the image map editor generates URLs which are relative to the document root (URLs which start with /). If you want to enter a relative URL in an image map, do so manually. - Image map files conform to the NSCA standard. - Coordinates in an image map file do not get adjusted after you scale an image. If you want to scale your image, be sure to create your image map after you have scaled your image. 8. Configuring Backstage Designer as Default Editor for HTML files ------------------------------------------------------------------ You can configure Backstage Designer to automatically launch when you double-click on an HTML file. In Windows 95: 1. Open any folder. 2. Choose Options from the View menu. 3. Click the File Types tab, then scroll through the list until you locate the HTM file type. The description of this file type in the list will differ depending on your current configuration. For example, if Netscape Navigator is installed, the description type for HTM or HTML files may be listed as "Netscape Hypertext Document". 4. Click on the item in the list, and verify that you see HTM or HTML next to Extension under File type details. If you locate the file type in the list, skip to step 6. If the HTM or HTML file type is not in the list, proceed to step 5. 5. Click New Type. - In Description of type enter: HTML file. - In Associated extension enter: HTM HTML. - Click the New button. Under Action, type Open. - Proceed to step 8. 6. Click the Edit button. Under Actions, select Open. Click the "Set Default" button. 7. Select Open again and click the Edit button. 8. Click the Browse button and locate your installed copy of Backstage Designer. Double click Designer.exe. Click OK, then click Close. In Windows NT, Windows 3.1, or Windows 3.11: 1. Launch File Manager. 2. Under File, select Associate. 3. Next to "Files with extension" type: HTM 4. Click Browse 5. Locate and select designer.exe, then click OK. Steps 6-7 apply to Windows NT only: 6. Next to "Files with extension" type: HTML 7. Repeat steps 3 and 4. 8. Click OK 9. ActiveX Support ------------------- As we went to press, Microsoft was still in Alpha with the version of Internet Explorer that supports ActiveX controls. Although Backstage Designer supports the Object tag specification, it has not been tested with a release or beta version of Internet Explorer.