On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:36, rene7705 wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote: > >> > >> > Hi Folks.. > >> > > >> > I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last > >> > months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the > >> > source of) http://mediabeez.ws > >> > > >> > I think you'll like my opensourced work :) > >> > > >> > Feedback is appreciated. > >> > >> I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79 on > OSX - not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at > all). The download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further. > >> > >> And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to > judge, but right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to > work? What external libraries are you using? > >> > >> Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump > out... > >> > >> * The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near > production-ready. > >> > >> * The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of the > browser window. > >> > >> * Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed! > >> > >> I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on > what it does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the > late 90s. You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I don't > know because it's buried under >50MB of other stuff that I almost certainly > don't care about, and that's before I've even been able to download it. > > > > ok.. > > > > That being unable to download the zip file correctly is something I'll > take up with my hosting provider tomorrow. > > I've downloaded it in full and opened it OK in winrar just now, btw. > > > > The zip-file is created with winrar on windows 7, and according to Floyd > Resler has to get it's extension changed to .rar, then decompressed with > Stuffit Expander. Also something to look into soon, btw. > > That would explain why every zip decompression utility I've tried thinks > it's corrupt. > > > As for my menu being jittery, it's not jittery on any of the windows > browsers I tested. > > And I have no mac-book available to me, not even from friends and family > who are all on windows (on my recommendation btw ;) > > Are you ready for the shocking truth... not every computer in the world > runs Windows, so unless you've developed this purely for the friends and > family you've convinced to do so you may want to rethink your approach to > testing. > > > As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future > or current fast internet connections. > > Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to > become faster still. > > And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least.. > > That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to > download the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s. > Your homepage takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real > world, especially when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only > guessing here) not under heavy load. > > Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it > can cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further > into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna > need it). > > -Stuart > > Okay, I don't wanna get into an argument here.. Rest assured, all the javascript for my animated widgets combined is about 25kb. The artwork for simple animations is about 100kb per button/menu-item theme. The fact that I demo how to put video on a button and thus end up with nearly a dozen button themes that are about 2MB each, is just taking advantage of the fast links that are available in much of the world. About me testing only on windows, you're right about that and I'll see if I can do something to improve my testing regime. For now i'm dependent on your patience and bugreports tho. And I had no idea winrar made such crappy zip files, I'll look into a replacement very soon.
