Re: [LAU] [Channel Linux - Feedback]

From: Hartmut Noack <zettberlin@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 15 2013 - 16:43:21 EET

Am 15.03.2013 14:34, schrieb Patrick Shirkey:
>
> On Sat, March 16, 2013 12:00 am, Hartmut Noack wrote:
>>
>> The page works for me without any extra-install requests in
>> Firefox/Ubuntu 12-04 after I allowed some 12 other pages to spawn
>> content on it using NoScript.
>>
>
> I forgot to mention that the site relies explicitly on jquery to do all
> the fun stuff. I have some other requests for a noscript version of the
> site

I think, that jquery is near-inevitible nowadays and I think, that is OK
as long as it is used properly and as long as the page degrades
gracefully...

> and I am looking into the best way to enable that while also
> retaining the more "game" like functionality of the randomiser (Roulette)
> system.

Such a function would be the last I would do in JS. I mean, that is all
about, what content is to be delivered to the visitor no? So I would use
a system, that runs on the server to assemble the list of stuff, that is
to land in the visitors browser...
Python, Perl even or... Run for the hills!! PHP

>
>> Anyway *if* the page would be worked out right, it could be OK for a
>> media-page that akkumulates from other pages. But w3c says:
>>
>> http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fchannellinux.com%2F
>>
>> and that is *not* acceptable anymore.
>
> Thanks for reminding me. All those errors are harmless. A few end tags
> missing "/"'s in the header section (easily fixed) and the majority of the
> other errors come from the external scripts which I have no control of.

Yes, I have given in trying to correct Google and the like, when you
need Maps or external Videos, you cannot get a perfect result anymore...

>
> I understand that some people are adverse to social media

As long as it is not irritating in design and not laced with the
commonly used bullshit *in the articles*, I do not see a real problem
with "social media"

> but the whole
> point of the site is to be social and share the information as much as
> possible to build as much traffic as possible so that we can make money
> from advertising and use that revenue to pay people to create high quality
> content on a regular basis so in this case the naysayers are going to be
> left behind to a certain degree unfortunately ;-)
>
>
>> Plus: the design is a complete mess. To have a banner blocking the sight
>> on a video is not even amateurish, regardless if the banner is a newsfeed.
>>
>
> Can you send me a screenshot offlist please? I am not seeing what you
> describe here as a problem. It is by design that the ticker would overlap
> just a little but maybe you have a very tiny screen and it is taking up
> more room?

I have a 1368x768 Laptop screen(Lenovo ideapad) The ticker overlaps
about 40px of the two videos in the second row.

>
>> My proposition: cut it down to something simple and most of all: let the
>> visitors choose, what source of video they would like to see, do not
>> load all available...
>>
>
> By source do you mean let the viewer choose between ogv, webm, h264,
> etc...? Can you elaborate please?

No, by source I mean, if they want to see a stream from a YT-channel or
from anywhere else...

>
> FYI, I haven't tried to process the individual media that I have included
> in the playlists for multiple encodings. That is a bit more effort than I
> am prepared to commit to at this early stage of development.

I would find that quite hard a task also...

I mean: if the publisher of a Linux-related video chooses some weired
format not viewable in a out-of-the-box Linux with say VLC and Mplayer
installed...

Maybe filtering those vendors would be the better choice...

>
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