Web redesign

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:15 pm

Wouldn't it be more Oolite/Elite to have the Cobra spinning?

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:23 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Wouldn't it be more Oolite/Elite to have the Cobra spinning?

Now you're just being picky!

By the way - under Gallery:

New nebulae, with the subletly cranked down. Also, you can now play Oolite in Italian.

Subletly = Subtlety?

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:34 pm

The Download link does not seem to work for me. I get a dialog asking me to save a document named "Download". Running on IE6.

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:35 pm

It Lives!

However, two 'links' in the about page (to MacWorld UK & TechRadar.com) are going nowhere atm...

Edit: A_C, which link exactly? Do you mean http://www.oolite.org/download

or do you mean the berlios download link?

if it's the first, changing that link to http://www.oolite.org/download/ (note the extra / at the end - and changing address translation accordingly) should stop ie6 from being 'helpful'...

alternatively, it might be better to forget address translation altogether and use http://www.oolite.org/download.shtml , etc...

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:55 pm

Yet another minor nit-pick: the cobra background on the index page (cobra.png) seems to use a different black to the page background. Since it's a png, it might well be better to change the png's black background so it's transparent instead. ie6 will still show the transparent bits as 'png black', but with more recent browsers nobody will see any black-on-black square anymore...

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:15 pm

Thargoid wrote:
Wouldn't it be more Oolite/Elite to have the Cobra spinning?

Stop exposing my secret projects. ;-)

another_commander wrote:
The Download link does not seem to work for me. I get a dialog asking me to save a document named "Download". Running on IE6.

That’s odd. I can only echo Kaks’s question, except to note that the trailing slash won’t work.

Kaks wrote:
Yet another minor nit-pick: the cobra background on the index page (cobra.png) seems to use a different black to the page background.

Fixed.

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:25 pm

Kaks wrote:
Edit: A_C, which link exactly? Do you mean http://www.oolite.org/download

or do you mean the berlios download link?

if it's the first, changing that link to http://www.oolite.org/download/ (note the extra / at the end - and changing address translation accordingly) should stop ie6 from being 'helpful'...

alternatively, it might be better to forget address translation altogether and use http://www.oolite.org/download.shtml , etc...

The problem is with http://www.oolite.org/download. It seems to work OK if I change the link to http://www.oolite.org/download.shtml.

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:29 pm

Fixed.

Thanks! However the about page is still missing links:

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<a href="#">Macworld UK</a>

should be

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<a href="http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=2154">Macworld UK</a>

and

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<a href="#">TechRadar.com,

should be

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<a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/10-best-free-pc-games-you-should-play-today-619129?artc_pg=2">TechRadar.com,

also I can confirm ie 'helpfulness' with the http://www.oolite.org/download link - the identical problem happens in ie7 too. changing the link from

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href="download">

to

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href="download.shtml">

everywhere will get ie7 - and presumably ie6 and all m$ progeny too - to behave like a real browser....

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:30 pm

*Shakes fist, curses name of Gates unto nth generation, divers alarums*

Do all the other pages work?
Did the old site work?

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:31 pm

Yep!
Yep, afaik!

Edit: all working ok with ie7 now!

However, for aestetic reasons it might be better to have the about link changed to about.shtml etc...

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:33 pm

Ahruman wrote:
*Shakes fist, curses name of Gates unto nth generation, divers alarums*

Do all the other pages work?
Did the old site work?

*Joins cursing and shaking fist*

Yes to both questions from me.

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:42 pm

A_C, is everything working ok for you too now?

If not, you might have to do a shift -F5 (refresh) to clear ie6's cache...

Website · Post by **Cody** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:45 pm

If it helps, everything is working on the latest Firefox 3.6.3

Post by **Kaks** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:51 pm

Thanks EV! I'm pretty sure all other non-m$ browsers (opera, safari, chrome, konqueror, you name it) are going to be ok too.

Hopefully by the time ie12 is out, m$ will have stopped 'improving' on web standards...

Post by **another_commander** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:33 pm

Kaks wrote:
A_C, is everything working ok for you too now?

If not, you might have to do a shift -F5 (refresh) to clear ie6's cache...

Yep, it looks all is good now. Me->happy.

Edit: Ehm, almost. Works OK from all pages except the very first one (with Drew's text). Clicking download from that screen brings up the "helpful" dialog.