VGA - Life Without Megapixels...my Web 1.1

[Dronecatcher]

I thought I'd have a crack at designing a personal website that follows the recent initiative to follow the proposed Web 1.1 specifications, so here's VGA - Life Without Megapixels a site written specifically for Safari 4 and Classilla

It's been a good exercise in learning the frustrations of designing for different browsers - what works in one, breaks in another - but largely I've fixed most glitches.

EDIT:****Well that was shortlived - my account has been suspended :/ ****

EDIT: All good - moved entire site to a reputable paid for account!

 

[galgot]

Very cool design. Kind of "Hal 9000" that I like .
Isn't there a webhosting service on the MacGarden ? I think I saw that but didn't investigate further.

 

[z970]

Awesome work! Once you can get it back up, perhaps with the help of Macintosh Garden Hosting, we'll add it to the main directory.

P.S. Love the N8!

 

[Dronecatcher]

Awesome work! Once you can get it back up, perhaps with the help of Macintosh Garden Hosting, we'll add it to the main directory.

P.S. Love the N8!

I've moved it to godaddy, so the link is now active again

I do have a macintoshgarden account but unfortunately there's not enough space to host it there.

Take note: avoid infinityfree.net web hosting - they promised unlimited bandwith/uploads etc etc but clearly have a ploy to hold your site to ransom once it's active!

 

[Dronecatcher]

P.S. Love the N8!

Recently got that - amazed by the build quality and the Carl Zeiss camera

 

[Dronecatcher]

Now got the webcam online and found that moving to a decent web host made video playback instant

 

[Amethyst1]

Recently got that - amazed by the build quality and the Carl Zeiss camera

Dah 808 PureView is dah real deal

 

[Dronecatcher]

Dah 808 PureView is dah real deal

It is...but I'm not prepared to pay silly money for one

 

[galgot]

And good music too. your ?
Bookmarked.

 

[Dronecatcher]

And good music too. your ?
Bookmarked.

Yes, all mine - mostly made on a Powerbook or G5

 

[Doq]

You know what, I'm inspired. Your website has made me decide that I'm going to make a Web 1.1 version of my website.

Expect more soon. Good work.

 

[Stanislaw.dk]

Cool website

 

[Dronecatcher]

You know what, I'm inspired. Your website has made me decide that I'm going to make a Web 1.1 version of my website.

Expect more soon. Good work.

Your moving particle field will be a challenge without javascript

 

[galgot]

Gosh... that Six Million Dollar Man vid. So cool. My childhood , remember playing Steve Austin with my brother , trying to run in "slow motion" making the sound TuuhhTuuhhTuuhh... lol.
And the HL-10 crash with music and radio background fascinated me.
Anyway, it fits very well there .

 

[Dronecatcher]

Gosh... that Six Million Dollar Man vid. So cool.

Same here...as soon as those end credits rolled me and my brother would leap off the sofa then go into slow motion

The amount of detail and attention that went into that opening sequence is incredible - music by famous composers, real crash footage, Lee Majors miked up in a HL-10 cockpit for authenticity, the schematics for the limbs with real engineering data....I'd sincerely say it's a work of art

 

[galgot]

True. I'll rate it as one of my fav op sequence of these time, with The persuaders and Manix, but with these last, it's more the music from Barry and Schifrin than the visuals .

 

[Dronecatcher]

True. I'll rate it as one of my fav op sequence of these time, with The persuaders and Manix, but with these last, it's more the music from Barry and Schifrin than the visuals .

John Barry was the king of soundtracks...I've a lot of time for Lalo Schifrin too - Dirty Harry and early Starsky & Hutch are phenomenal.

 

[galgot]

Speaking of Soundtracks, a friend made me discover Sven Libaek :

isn't that a very "PowerBook G3" album cover ?

Anyway, sorry for OT. good day.

 

[AphoticD]

Unfortunately there's a tiny sliver of javascript required for the webcam (alternatively refresh the page manually) - other than that no script involved!

Great work @Dronecatcher. Would a meta refresh allow the webcam page to reload without JS?

 

[Dronecatcher]

Great work @Dronecatcher. Would a meta refresh allow the webcam page to reload without JS?

Not sure if I looked at that - wouldn't that refresh the whole page?

The javascript is only 4 lines and initially when I did this the first web host required javascript to open the home page so I left it in.

 

[alex_free]

This reminds me a ton of how I had to design the web interface of PPCMC. Since it works with most OS 7/8/9 browsers I had to just try random different things to get the PHP code compatible with Netscape and Internet Explorer. Once I got it though, was definitely worth it.

Are you interested in open sourcing this for others to build off of? Here is the only PHP code I’ve ever written, for the PPCMC web interface if anyone wanted to see how it works (released into the Public Domain)..

 

[Dronecatcher]

Are you interested in open sourcing this for others to build off of?

It already is open source - it's just html that you can right click into

There's no php or background stuff going on, the whole site was written in TextWrangler - back in the day I would use Dreamweaver but seeing as I'd forgotten every scrap of html I used to know I thought it would be informative to be as basic as possible.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Can anyone confirm the audio playback on the music pages is now broken in Classilla?

Since moving to the new web host, all wav files are truncated to only 5 or so seconds in Classilla. I linked a wav file to another server and then Classilla said it didn't even recognise the file type!

Wondering whether I've broken my OS9 install?

 

[galgot]

Can anyone confirm the audio playback on the music pages is now broken in Classilla?

Since moving to the new web host, all wav files are truncated to only 5 or so seconds in Classilla. I linked a wav file to another server and then Classilla said it didn't even recognise the file type!

Wondering whether I've broken my OS9 install?

Yes. In Classilla / OS9 I get "Tittle *player not compatible* - click here"... But when I do I get to a reader lasting 3 - 2 seconds.
Downloading the wav and the mp3 seems to works though, wasp.wav for example is 4.9 mb, seems complete.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Yes. In Classilla / OS9 I get "Tittle *player not compatible* - click here"... But when I do I get to a reader lasting 3 - 2 seconds.

Thanks - at least it's not my install then.

So frustrating - tried settiing content/mime types but makes no difference. Also tried changing from .wav to .aif and .au but does the same - only Classilla effected.