This looks interesting Curt & I look forward to exploring it. I've loved the
whole series as long as I've known it
You touch on something that affects many of us. A good deal of the stuff I've
made over the years simply doesn't work now.
The tech is broken/ abandoned because the web has been straitjacketed into a
mechanism for the controlled extraction of money &/ promulgation of advertising
and beauty is not a consideration.Just the other day I was thinking about
Director and how much I loved it and how much you can do with it and how odd it
is that it is now completely marginal even though I'm not aware of a successor
that gets even close to what it could do...
Could you say a tiny bit about the howl .js trick? A lot of my stuff used
looped embedded audio and gradually the alternatives for doing in this in a
browser have been gradually closed down ( I used .dcr then I used QT...then I
looked away and started painting and returned to a world that seems in many
ways unrecognisable)thanks for sharing thisbest wishesMichael
From: Curt Cloninger <c...@lab404.com>
To: netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:35 PM
Subject: [NetBehaviour] Playdamage Without Flash
Hi all,
I took some time to revamp http://playdamage.org and got rid of all the Flash
elements.
I was mostly using Flash for audio, because it loops audio seamlessly, and that
is an important aspect of the site.
Now I am using a howl .js trick because regular embedded html5 audio still
leaves a non-seamless gap in the loop.
Even with the howl .js trick, Safari still leaves a bit of a gap, but anyone
using Safari is probably used to dealing with all sorts of problems in their
life anyway.
It won’t play any of the audio on a phone, because that’s the way phone
browsers work. But it will play all of the visuals on a phone.
All of the audio wound up changing a bit in translation. Some audio got higher
res and some got lower res. Going backwards toward the early pages of the site,
at that time (early 2000s) I wasn’t saving my source audio files, so for this
de-flashification process of those pages, I wound up having to extract the
already heavily compressed mp3s files from swf embeds and then recompress them
as ogg and mp3s files, which actually made them sound cooler (to me).
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I translated Flash visuals to other non-flash visual solutions on the following
pages:
http://playdamage.org/80.html
http://playdamage.org/79.html
http://playdamage.org/78.html
http://playdamage.org/72.html
http://playdamage.org/39.html
http://playdamage.org/36.html
And in every case, the new visuals look better than the old flash visuals (but
they are not as thin).
I shortened the audio loop on:
http://playdamage.org/71.html
(It used to be the whole song, but that was just too much skynyrd.)
And I lengthened the audio loop on:
http://playdamage.org/64.html
(because who can’t get enough of hipster harp music?)
Here are some HIDDEN PAGES I skipped over but left in their original format and
location because they didn’t really translate:
http://playdamage.org/40.html (a .dcr page, no less!)
http://playdamage.org/31.html
http://playdamage.org/28.html
(those last two pages are part of this larger project here:
http://www.playdamage.org/grace/ )
I doubled the text on these two pages, because monitors are larger than they
used to be:
http://playdamage.org/83.html
http://playdamage.org/17.html
And I made this code stranger:
http://playdamage.org/86.html
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Hobbyists must be their own archivists, until you reach the critical point
where your archive is so large that you spend all your time maintaining it and
no time adding to it. But evidently I’m not there yet.
Best,
Curt
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