Photographica, Refresh Edition (UPDATED)

By coryking
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written 5/22/08 2:11 PM, published 5/24/08 7:47 AM

Howdy All,

Hope you like the new look.  If you've got bugs or any other kinds of issues with the new page, post 'em here!  

Update: Enjoy the new comment layout.  I'm aware that some cannot change their avatar and I'm working to fix this as we type. 



 
  • tbell
    3

    Hi, Cory -

    I posted a comment, then tried to return to the viewing page by clicking the back button, and received a "Could not load this page" message, after which my efforts to log on to Photographica again were obstructed for a while by the same message. When I tried to report to mozimedia.com, the mailer daemon said the address was unavailable!

    Tom 

    - petercallesen.com

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  • I changed my avatar twice but the photo won't change.  Other than that all seem go!

    - Old Shot

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  • Love the big right-hand photo and the shooter ID.  Nice.

    - blow.....hard

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  • Ashton
    3
    Hee hee silly me Ive reloaded my page 4 times before I noticed we had a new look!! I like it, now that I know it's supposed to look like this. I toolike the larger picture with the ID!! Looking good Cory!! thanks for your hard work!!

    - Say...CHEESE

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  • Larger print, easier to read.  Less color - ok.

    Looks like a short post/large avatar messes up the next comment.

    I would prefer the 'new message' line to be something other than yellow, a little hard to see now.

    - A quack with an camera

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  • About tags - on the two post above, you can see how tags push the thumbnail over to the right.  Could the tags be put on a seperate line then the bigining of the story?

     

    - A quack with an camera

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  • Yep...

    - Growing Up is Optional...

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  • Question regarding sizing...  when I uncheck the resize box my picture is still resized...  did you limit the size that can be view....  

    - Growing Up is Optional...

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  • Quack,

    What browser are you using?  They aren't pushing anything over on Firefox, IE7 & Opera.  They might push something over in IE6, but on that browser, anything is possible (IE6 = grrrrr).  I'll load up my copy of IE6 and see what crazyness it does now ;-)

    Surfer,

    You know what, the way the new system is designed, it probably does resize the final images.  It is storing the full sized image on disk - Your "Street Corner 2" pictures are all well above 800x600.  However, when it spits it back out as a popup, the new image code is storing a resized copy and displaying that instead.  So in fact, by leaving the "resize this image" box checked, all you are really doing is saving me disk space and CPU time and getting nothing in return.

    I've got to think about this image stuff some more.  While the web server is running the new codebase, Photographica's image server is still running some pretty old code that doesn't support the tricks I've done in the new code.  In the perfect world, I'd offload the image resizing to the dedicated image server, so things would be faster.  The problem is (and this is nerd talk here), the damn server doesn't have a CD-ROM I can use to install a new operating system on it.  Seeing as how I dont have a car, I cannot easily take it home (though I could catch a cab... hmmm) and upgrade it there.  

    What I really need is new servers.  If I could get new, fast servers that could quickly resize images that whole "do not resize my image" business could go away for good.

    - Spike Lee

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  • And yes, that yellow "new comment" bar is a bit obnoxious now isn't it :-)

    Oh, and I'll take a look at the avatar business tomorrow.  I'll be out of town for most of today. 

    - Spike Lee

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  • I was using IE6 (wouldn't you know it) at work, when I made the comment.  Here at home I have IE7 and everything look fine.  Off hand, I'd say to ignore the tab problem.

    - A quack with an camera

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  • Yeah, it is usually businesses that still insist on using IE6.  Usually the reason is because they coded some internal application so it breaks on everything but IE6. That or their IT department is understaffed or under budgeted.  It is silly though, IE6 was and still is a huge security risk and coupled with Windows XP, an exciting vector for behind-the-scenes spyware installation.

    (rant on)

    Thankfully IE6 is only about 25->20% of the visitors on this site and it is declining by 5% a month.  I keep hoping it will hit 10% so I can get even more lax about testing in it.

    Notice how the title looks extra crappy in IE6?  That is because IE6 doesn't support transparent PNG's (as in, they do alpha blending like Photoshop) so I created a separate stylesheet to feed you crappy  transparent GIF's (no alpha blending so you have to pick a background color to blend against).

    IE6 has literally brought me to tears of frustration on occasion.  Working on this site, and sites for clients and seeing my a wonderful website that follows the standards turn to rubbish when viewed in IE6.  Some pages, and some sites, I can easily spend 45% of my time working around bugs in a browser used by 25% of the viewers.  I'm not alone in that metric either.  When you consider that time spent on that browser is billable time, that cost is passed on to clients.  When 45% of a web developer's time is spent working around bugs for a crappy browser, that is a huge cost.  Microsoft (and I hate Microsoft rants) as probably cost companies millions of dollars in time and staffing just to code around their crappy browser.

    IE6. Arg....  I got my revenge though--I swear at your browser as an HTML comment when I detect it, I swear at it in my IE6 specific style sheet, and I'm pretty sure I swear at it in the headers too.  I would estimate a good 35% of the pages you view in IE6 swear at your browser somewhere in their source code. We developers and designers have to seek revenge somehow ;-)

    (/rant off) 

    The good news is IE8 is due in a couple months, and hopefully it will get corporations off their butt and at least move to IE7.  I've yet to install the beta of IE8, but I hear it has some cool new features that I might be able to exploit for awesomeness. 

    - Spike Lee

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  • Everything looks great!  And larger!

    - american[bohemian] style

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  • AHHH, so that is why we haven't upgraded yet.  I though it was just plain laziness.

    - A quack with an camera

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  • I used to use IE7 but someone on this site got me to try Firefox. I am hooked on Firefox! It even has a built-in spell checker! That is great for me, the world's worst speller.

    Some sites though insist I use IE whatever version though Firefox has some plug ins for some of those occasions, but not all. 

     Lookin good Cory.

    - So shoot already!!

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  • Overall, I'm delighted, Cory. I like that everything is bigger, I love the new word processor unit (except it won't let me single space with the return button), and no votes is wonderful really. Comments mean a lot more and I am not frustrated with trying to figure out where I left off viewing. Kudos.

    - learning never ends

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  • Lidljo
    5
    Foxfire is a good fit!  I really like the new look and all the little new ways of doing things.  I do have to get used to how to write a story now - have messed up every time.  The one very nice thing is that you can go back and edit it.  This is much like the website that I use at school.  Thank you Cory for all the work.  Again, we do know how much work it takes.

    - Flowers are happiness...

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  • "except it won't let me single space with the return button"

    Yeah, there are some bugs deep inside the editor itself.  There are also quite a few configuration knobs I can turn that I haven't played with either.  One thing that bugs me is the editor insists on sometimes indenting a new paragraph.  It also gets confused if you insert a popup at the end of your text--it isn't easy to write more that isn't part of the link.

    They have a new version of this editor that has quite a few enhancements (and better browser support), but they changed the way I'd integrate it into Photographica so much that it will take some time to upgrade. 

    - Spike Lee

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  • by the way, if you are brave enough, I've been toying around with the new goodies in IE8 like webslices.   I'll probably be pushing out a couple hooks for them shortly.  I've downloaded Firefox 3, but haven't installed it in a virtual machine to see what goodies lie there.

    I gotta say, the best part about firefox is pretty much *everybody* runs the current version.  With IE, there is a lot of version fragmentation  that makes development difficult.  With Firefox, I never test on older versions because within a week, literally the entire userbase has upgraded.

    Really though, I've been spending most of my time working on the mobile site, which I feel is going to be a "big thing" once it is done.

    - Spike Lee

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