Web site critique

Neo Geshel wrote:

Oli Filth wrote:

header("Content-Type: ...");

Before any script output. However, there are issues with XHTML MIME
types and Internet Explorer (cos it's lame). Do a Google search for
"xhtml mime explorer" to find your options.


I’ve already tried that. It throws a major server error that totally
destroys my stylesheet formatting and produces a line of text (the error
message) at the very top (prior to any XHTML code). I’ll try it again
soon so I can pass on the error message.

Sounds like something on your server is screwy then.


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Travis Newbury wrote:

Terry wrote:

link rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css"
href="csss/print.css"> Works for me (IE 6) - I guess IE is order
sensitive. (Hard to imagine a bug in a quality browser ;-)


What quality browser?
Sorry, I guess I was not clear enough on two points. One, I changed the

order in the <link . . . > from the op's file to the above order and it
worked fine in IE. Two, the quality browser should have been wrapped in
<grin></grin> (as <grin>quality</grin>)

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Toby Inkster wrote:

What link? Your link styling (or lack thereof) makes it pretty difficult
to distinguish links and plain text. BTW, the patent on gifs expired
some time ago.
...In the US. Elsewhere, there are still patents on GIF.

Has anyone ever been sued over the gif patent? I mean an individual, or
company < 500 employees.

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On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:40:53 -0500, kchayka <usenet (AT) c-net (DOT) us> wrote:

Steve Sundberg wrote:

And why use Flash for a simple slide show?
As an alternative, a properly optimized GIF animation
would get the same job done for fewer bytes.

I doubt it. Gif is not an appropriate format for photos. An animated gif
would probably be many times larger than a properly compressed Flash
movie, at least for photographic content.

Now, if they were line drawings instead, it would be another matter.

Yes, you're correct -- although I will sometimes convert JPGs to GIF
in order to achieve the dithered effect. The solution to the large SWF
file size has to involve using properly optimized JPG or PNG images.
Given the few images used in this particular Flash file, there
shouldn't be any need for the SWF to be larger than 50k-75k.

Gazza wrote:

You need to read the specs for XHTML Media Types. It clearly says that
XHTML1.1 SHOULD use application/xhtml+xml as it's mime type.

I can't find that stated in the w3.org XHTML 1.1 specs.

XHTML 1.0 says,

XHTML Documents [snip] may be labeled with the Internet Media Type
"text/html" [RFC2854], as they are compatible with most HTML browsers.
Those documents [snip] may also be labeled with the Internet Media Type
"application/xhtml+xml" as defined in [RFC3236].

Further, the changes from XHTML 1.0 to 1.1
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html> doesn't declare a change in
mime-type recommendations.

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Steve Sundberg wrote:

On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:40:53 -0500, kchayka <usenet (AT) c-net (DOT) us> wrote:


Steve Sundberg wrote:

And why use Flash for a simple slide show?
As an alternative, a properly optimized GIF animation
would get the same job done for fewer bytes.

I doubt it. Gif is not an appropriate format for photos. An animated gif
would probably be many times larger than a properly compressed Flash
movie, at least for photographic content.

Now, if they were line drawings instead, it would be another matter.


Yes, you're correct -- although I will sometimes convert JPGs to GIF
in order to achieve the dithered effect. The solution to the large SWF
file size has to involve using properly optimized JPG or PNG images.
Given the few images used in this particular Flash file, there
shouldn't be any need for the SWF to be larger than 50k-75k.

The SWF file is only 9kb in size. The images are external to the SWF
file, and are loaded with help from an (also external) XML file that
acts as a control to ID the images.

The main culprit are the photos themselves. They need to be compressed
more, except I can’t stand the dithering. Damn JPEG. If only Flash could
properly digest PNG. :-(

...Geshel
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Neo Geshel wrote:

The main culprit are the photos themselves. They need to be compressed
more, except I can’t stand the dithering. Damn JPEG.

There's something seriously wrong with your application if you're
getting dithering. Dithering is only supposed to be performed when you
reduce the number of colours in the image (don't do this).

If only Flash could properly digest PNG. :-(

Since you're compressing photo-realistic images, you do not want PNG
unless you want lossless compression (perfect quality over filesize).

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Neo Geshel wrote:

The main culprit are the photos themselves. They need to be compressed
more, except I can’t stand the dithering. Damn JPEG. If only Flash could
properly digest PNG. :-(

Import the pngs into a swf then dynamically load the swf(s) in your
slide show flash. When ever we need quality images (or transparency) we
do this.

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Neo Geshel wrote:

The main culprit are the photos themselves. They need to be compressed
more, except I can’t stand the dithering. Damn JPEG. If only Flash could
properly digest PNG. :-(

Import the pngs into a swf then dynamically load the swf(s) in your
slide show flash. When ever we need quality images (or transparency) we
do this.

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Neo Geshel wrote:

The main culprit are the photos themselves. They need to be compressed
more, except I can’t stand the dithering. Damn JPEG. If only Flash could
properly digest PNG. :-(

Import the pngs into a swf then dynamically load the swf(s) in your
slide show flash. When ever we need quality images (or transparency) we
do this.

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