Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
Pete Ottery wrote: http://abc.net.au/news/ someone out there on the list must have been involved :) surely give us the goss about how it went/is going. congrats Indeed, it would be nice to hear a bit more from the folks involved at the ABC. But before we sing too many praises... when I view the site using my very popular windows mobile 5 enabled smartphone (running Internet Explorer Mobile) it looks terrible and I cannot see any of the stories. The last ABC news website looked far better on my phone than the new site. No mobile style sheet! BTW looks OK on Mozilla's Minimo and great on Opera MINI. Brad - Original Message - From: Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website Brad wrote: Really enjoying the new ABC News website here in Australia. http://abc.net.au/news/ ditto - love it. an amazing achievement to get that up and out. i particularly like the nice little attention to detail like the css hovers/icons on the links and the inline video. the video section itself is hot too - the my playlist thing is very slick. although the play playlist link could scream out a bit more. someone out there on the list must have been involved :) surely give us the goss about how it went/is going. congrats. pete ottery *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
AFAIK, the ABC News developers aren't subcribed to this list, but I've forwarded the feedback here to them. Cheers, Geoff Pack _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brad Pollard Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:12 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website Pete Ottery wrote: http://abc.net.au/news/ someone out there on the list must have been involved :) surely give us the goss about how it went/is going. congrats Indeed, it would be nice to hear a bit more from the folks involved at the ABC. But before we sing too many praises... when I view the site using my very popular windows mobile 5 enabled smartphone (running Internet Explorer Mobile) it looks terrible and I cannot see any of the stories. The last ABC news website looked far better on my phone than the new site. No mobile style sheet! BTW looks OK on Mozilla's Minimo and great on Opera MINI. Brad - Original Message - From: Peter Ottery [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website Brad wrote: Really enjoying the new ABC News website here in Australia. http://abc.net.au/news/ ditto - love it. an amazing achievement to get that up and out. i particularly like the nice little attention to detail like the css hovers/icons on the links and the inline video. the video section itself is hot too - the my playlist thing is very slick. although the play playlist link could scream out a bit more. someone out there on the list must have been involved :) surely give us the goss about how it went/is going. congrats. pete ottery == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
Gav... wrote: quote who=John Horner I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different towns and cities with the same name all over Australia. Springfield for instance -- two in NSW, two in Victoria, two in Queensland and one each in SA, WA and Tasmania. I tried my Postcode of 6036 - not recognised, I then tried 4 others in surrounding Northern Suburbs, all of them were resolved to be Perth even though I am a good 40 minutes from CBD. Needs improvement in that area, maybe its not finished. Gav... The Aus Post site has an up to date list of postcodes-suburbs that includes all codes and the suburb as the post office sees it. http://www1.auspost.com.au/postcodes/index.asp?sub=2 I'm sure this is what the ABC would have used but for anyone else, its a great resource. Pity it doesn't have Geo co-ords. :( == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
Gav... wrote: quote who=John Horner I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different towns and cities with the same name all over Australia. Springfield for instance -- two in NSW, two in Victoria, two in Queensland and one each in SA, WA and Tasmania. I tried my Postcode of 6036 - not recognised, I then tried 4 others in surrounding Northern Suburbs, all of them were resolved to be Perth even though I am a good 40 minutes from CBD. Needs improvement in that area, maybe its not finished. Gav... Sorry in my other response I was also going to say that 6036 is in the auspost list as JINDALEE. Additionally you can't extract suburb from postcode because some postcodes span multiple suburbs. == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ottery ditto - love it. an amazing achievement to get that up and out. i particularly like the nice little attention to detail like the css hovers/icons on the links and the inline video. the video section itself is hot too - the my playlist thing is very slick. although the play playlist link could scream out a bit more. someone out there on the list must have been involved :) surely give us the goss about how it went/is going. congrats. I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I'm still getting used to the new format. Kerry --- This email, and any attachments, may be confidential and also privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies of this transmission along with any attachments immediately. You should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. --- *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
Brad wrote: Really enjoying the new ABC News website here in Australia. http://abc.net.au/news/ ditto - love it. an amazing achievement to get that up and out. i particularly like the nice little attention to detail like the css hovers/icons on the links and the inline video. the video section itself is hot too - the my playlist thing is very slick. although the play playlist link could scream out a bit more. someone out there on the list must have been involved :) surely give us the goss about how it went/is going. congrats. pete ottery *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different towns and cities with the same name all over Australia. Springfield for instance -- two in NSW, two in Victoria, two in Queensland and one each in SA, WA and Tasmania. == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
Yeah I was there today, I loved the quick video from all the reports concerning a new article. Top work! On 6/19/07, John Horner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different towns and cities with the same name all over Australia. Springfield for instance -- two in NSW, two in Victoria, two in Queensland and one each in SA, WA and Tasmania. == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
RE: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
quote who=John Horner I think the inclusion of the postcodes in the tags is a little clunky, and not very intuitive. I've had no direct involvement with the makeover, but I happen to know the reasoning behind the postcodes. There are a number of different towns and cities with the same name all over Australia. Springfield for instance -- two in NSW, two in Victoria, two in Queensland and one each in SA, WA and Tasmania. I tried my Postcode of 6036 - not recognised, I then tried 4 others in surrounding Northern Suburbs, all of them were resolved to be Perth even though I am a good 40 minutes from CBD. Needs improvement in that area, maybe its not finished. Gav... == The information contained in this email and any attachment is confidential and may contain legally privileged or copyright material. It is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you are not permitted to disseminate, distribute or copy this email or any attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your system. The ABC does not represent or warrant that this transmission is secure or virus free. Before opening any attachment you should check for viruses. The ABC's liability is limited to resupplying any email and attachments == *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** -- Gav... *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
http://abc.net.au/news/ Tags (MyTags), Unobtrusive, Semantic, Quick launch video and audio content, News by State, News by Postcode! And a great user preferences section where you can set your connection speed, preferred video format, page layout (fixed width/flexible) etc I didn't see a noticeable difference after setting it to dialup... And yes, it validates! (transitional) Surely there is something they have forgotten. Colour contrast checks. But otherwise a damn fine effort. -- --- http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] ABC News Online have a new website
On 18/06/07, Ben Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://abc.net.au/news/ Tags (MyTags), Unobtrusive, Semantic, Quick launch video and audio content, News by State, News by Postcode! And a great user preferences section where you can set your connection speed, preferred video format, page layout (fixed width/flexible) etc I didn't see a noticeable difference after setting it to dialup... And yes, it validates! (transitional) Surely there is something they have forgotten. Colour contrast checks. But otherwise a damn fine effort. -- --- http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson -- --- http://weblog.200ok.com.au/ --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
