WNP AMV CONTEST!!!

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 9:31 am

Where next two videos aren't working correctly on my computer. Giving in and the Hitori video. I was unable to play them.

genestarwind21122 · Post by **genestarwind21122** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 11:05 am

Never mind I got the video Hitori video now. But the other one willn't play in any of my players.

marvin · Post by **marvin** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:18 pm

genestarwind21122 wrote:Never mind I got the video Hitori video now. But the other one willn't play in any of my players.

Well, it plays for me, I could reencode it as something else for you. (Better if the original author has a higher quality file to reencode from of course..)

But more importantly (to me anyway):
WhereNext, your site it pretty broken for me. The text stays in place (in relation to something, not absolute positions though) no matter what size and font it's displayed as, so often much of it isn't readable. (I doubt I have the font you try to use.) You can probably see it yourself if you play with the font size. (I assume you can in your browser, if not you can download a mozilla based browser and look at it there.)

Here are two small examples:

This is with small fonts, which I think takes about as much space as was intended (this is just a guess though), layout is pretty broken in moz:

And this is with a big enough font that nothing is too high up (the first one is readable, but not in the picture):

WhereNext · Post by **WhereNext** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 1:22 am

well, ihave tested all the files and they work fine for me, if you have problems playing certain files, try updating your codecs.

As far as the site showing up looking wrong, if you select medium for tyrext size the site should show up fine, in I.E. iuse medium text size and the site shows up fine.

marvin · Post by **marvin** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 2:06 am

WhereNext wrote:As far as the site showing up looking wrong, if you select medium for tyrext size the site should show up fine, in I.E. iuse medium text size and the site shows up fine.

First, I don't use IE, and can't use IE (don't run windows, don't run macos), and even if I could I wouldn't want to with its horrible security track record.

Second, even for those who do use IE, not all of them will have be able to read small text. It's not impossible, or even hard, to design a site that will be readable regardless of font size. (And furter, I assure you there is no font size where the whole site is readable in my browser, so to read a whole page I have to change the font size several times.)

Now, it is of course up to you to decide if you care about if these people can use your site, but please be aware that you are making it very hard for some people.

WhereNext · Post by **WhereNext** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 7:29 am

well, this was my first ever attempt at a website, and i plan on redoing it after the contest is over. So in the meantime, i am sorry if the font size is a problem for you.

marvin · Post by **marvin** » Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:03 pm

WhereNext wrote:well, this was my first ever attempt at a website, and i plan on redoing it after the contest is over. So in the meantime, i am sorry if the font size is a problem for you.

It's not the font size per see, it's the fact that the layout is too fixed, and doesn't adapt to the font size. Less "clever" tricks makes the website less likely to break. Especially anything with position:absolute is likely to be a problem if you're not very careful. (And scripting tricks..) (I can manage, but for everyone who complains there are probably several who just give up quietly..)

WhereNext · Post by **WhereNext** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 8:05 am

Well I must say you are the first to complain. But your complaint is duly noted, and will be kept in mind when updating the layout in the future.

Voting for the contest has started, so go vote

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:06 pm

I won't vote in the contest because I entered.

It wouldn't be fair if people who entered voted for their own video and had their friends vote for them with out watching the other video...

Just my thought on the voting process.

WhereNext · Post by **WhereNext** » Tue Jun 17, 2003 7:46 am

I agree with your view Hitori, and respect it very much. I want all votes to be from unbias viewers, that have watched both videos.