Sam Mbale wrote:
Typed http://www.google.com/chrome
and I got
/Not Found/
/Error 404/
Am I missing something?
Well, in itself that is interesting, as it's not Google's normal 404 page,
which is e.g. http://www.google.com/chromed - so that implies there is
*something* special about
Brian Butterworth wrote:
But why on earth is this being done this way?
If by Astons you mean the superimposed captions, then if you had read the
text below (and the blog posting linked to), you would see that we did try
exactly that and it sadly just wasn't good enough.
ATB,
Matthew
The
Phil Wilson wrote:
Phil 'timestamp-tastic' Wilson
People are catching up on you, Phil, better get back to it! ;-)
ATB,
Matthew
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Brian Butterworth wrote:
I thought they were trying to do OCR on the captions from the DVB-T
stream.
No, we have clear text. As it says in the blog post :-)
However, a clear text feed of the data would keep the data pure, surely?
Sadly not (trust me, I've spent some time on this!) - even
Tim Dobson wrote:
I was interested today, to read on Xinhua, the Chinese State news
agency, that the BBC had been accused of displaying an image of a
ambulance with a caption stating that There is a heavy military
presence in Lhasa.[1]
The BBC did indeed show that; here's Google's cache of
Does anyone know who would be the right person to contact about the fact
that some BBC News pages now (as in, it only started very recently) appear
quite different in Opera 9 to Firefox and IE? It's only the body text font
size on pages with a div class=storybody, which makes me think it's
for one reason or another.
I can't remember how it's done in Opera (and being at work I can't
check) but it's ctrl + or ctrl - in firefox
Vijay.
On 11/03/2008, *Matthew Somerville* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know who would be the right person to contact
Kevin Hinde wrote:
we have, recently and deliberately, removed a font tag from the story
body, but Opera shouldn't go into quirks mode - I think that's because
we're declaring doctype as
[snip case change]
although I should probably check with someone who knows what they're
talking about
Tim Dobson wrote:
next step is to automate it
is that what Ian Wallaces script does?
Yes; I've put an online version I wrote probably at the same time up at:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-iplayer-mp4/?p=b009384l
It includes the related concepts, plus the history of
Ian Forrester wrote:
- XML/RSS/ATOM/JSON of programmes about to drop off iplayer
I knocked up a little unsophisticated something:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-iplayer-quick/ :-)
You can restrict to a particular title or part of title by adding it to the
end of the URL, e.g.
Something a bit odd going on somewhere:
http://www.dracos.co.uk/temp/bbc3flashlistings.jpeg
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507sliceId=2
says I have 9.0.47.0, and other things that require Flash 9 work fine. I've
used the feedback interface to report it.
Nick Ludlam wrote:
It doesn't seem to contain anything about being 16 or over though.
It looks like it's simply hard-coded in iPlayer at over 16 for anything
with a guidance element.
Steff Davies wrote:
Has there been a specific reason given for the lack of transport
controls as implemented on most other Flash video players I've seen?
You can drag the slider underneath the video back and forth as much as you
like (the white bar, it gets bigger when you hover over it)?
Andy wrote:
Also I am almost certain there was an XML meta file stored somewhere
that corresponded to each programme and now I can't find it. Any help?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/metafiles/episode/b008s14v.xml - you just need
the programme episode PIP.
Related concepts for that episode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does the BBC or any broadcaster for that matter publish the music that is
played during programs.
Some programmes do, e.g. Coast has a detailed guide, such as:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/faq/series3_prog1_music.shtml
Which is great. Others, such as the Culture
Jason Cartwright wrote:
the same reason as why the javascript is badly formatted and
obfuscate, it'll probably be packed or minified.
I wish BBC news did that for their HTML; simply stripping the whitespace and
nothing else shrinks the BBC news front page by *a third*! Quite a bandwidth
Rob Dunfey wrote:
I was wondering if there is a complete list \ lookup table of 4 letter
codes used by the Weather RSS feeds, matching place names and code.
I've had a good look around but cannot find anything.
Like http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-weather/countries.opml ?
ATB,
Matthew |
David Greaves wrote:
then some silly bugger like me will think about it in an entirely different way:
(see above URL)
Okay, but more and more people can only learn about hierarchical-ness - e.g.
the mouse gesture in Opera to go up a level and so on (just thought, I
wonder if that works on
David Greaves wrote:
Adam Lindsay wrote:
Martin Deutsch wrote:
But if you're talking well-designed URLs for journey planning, see:
http://www.traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/birmingham/8:00
Thank you for that site pointer. An excellent example, and a great one
to bookmark!
Thanks. :-)
You want
Andy wrote:
Has anyone here heard of something called email? Oh you have have you?
Well that works cross platform, guess how that was made cross
platform? well the IETF did something exceptionally simple they posted
the spec on a web site.
That's rather odd, given that the specs. for email of
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Can I use one of these photos on my site? Are the CC licenced?
If you look at any of the photos, you'll see the CC licence they are under
(by-nc-sa) on the right hand side of the page.
ATB,
Matthew
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mailto:[EMAIL
Liam S Docherty wrote:
The low graphics version sufffer from the same problem, in that the html
is not considered well formed by the standard Java parsers. I suppose I
could try tidy up the html before parsing =)
In this situation, I'd always suggest BeautifulSoup, but I'm afraid that's
James Cridland wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/pip/jrjen/ - good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/breakfast/archive/07/07/10/ - better.
That's not better; URLs are supposed to be unique. Okay, Breakfast isn't a
great example for my case, but even with that, if it's ever repeated,
Christopher Woods wrote:
Write entertaining copy? Edit other people's copy to a high standard?
sp - other peoples' copy, not other people's copy. Let's be thankful you're
a layout specialist, not a copy editor!
Spelling/grammar nazi insults already? Dear me. other people's copy is, of
Ian Forrester wrote, reordered slightly:
So what do you guys all think?
Sounds like a great idea; especially as I've been doing this for the BBC
News front page (similar to the RSS feed, I guess) since 2005? :-)
I imagine within a few months, you could data mine out keywords and
trends.
You
vijay chopra wrote:
notice the distinct lack of downloadable video content. Is there any
possibility of a Video version of the Today in Parliament podcast?
As others have pointed out, parliamentlive.tv might be what you're looking
for (in conjunction with some streaming downloader to capture
vijay chopra wrote:
As can be seen at big set piece events such as PMQs Sky, ITV and BBC etc
all seem to use the same camera, so it seems as if that the Beeb
licences the footage. Anyone here know who from, I suspect it is crown
copyright like our statutes and Hansard.
No, the recordings
Jason Cartwright wrote:
Oh, and I can't read welsh so could TV Licencing please
send me a cheque for the money spend on http://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/
Well, the pop-up Oes gennych chi 5 munud i roi eich barn am y safle hwn?
(Have you got 5 minutes to fill in a survey on this site, or similar)
Brian Butterworth wrote:
It permits you, as you keep quoting it, to make a recording of a
broadcast to let you view or listen to it at a more convenient time
(timeshifting); it does *not* let you make copies of that recording
(sharing). As I said, and you ignored, above.
It's not in the copy
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Sorry if you didn't get why this is a backstage issue, let me
explain more carefully.
I didn't say any such thing, someone else in the thread did.
I don't recall say that YOU did.
You were replying to my email, and you wrote you, as
Brian Butterworth wrote:
However, DOMESTIC sharing of programmes broadcast free-to-air in the UK is
NOT ILLEGAL.
Your quote of copyright law doesn't back that up, in my opinion.
To quote Section 70 of Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended),
The making in domestic premises for
Jason Cartwright wrote:
Not sure what happened to it though - can't seem to find it on
google.com. I guess its been drowned out by Google Video YouTube.
It *was* Google Video, when it first launched:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/video.html
But it doesn't seem to be there
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Does the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1988 cover the subtitles
associated with a TV channel? Would implementing a search feed, rather
than a complete feed be OK with the Act?
I would guess (IANAL) subtitles are part of the work, so would be
copyrighted for
Ian Forrester wrote:
Let me know what you think,
I like v4, without any sort of underlining. Then I looked a bit closer, and
I like v4 even more because it has developers and community, both of
which appear to be missing from v2 and v3. :)
ATB,
Matthew
Nic James Ferrier wrote:
When is university challenge on then? I go look at the BBC site. Type
univeristy challenge into search... a whole load of press
releases. No programme page though.
It sounds like the search should have an extra bit, listings if the search
term matches a programme
Chris Riley wrote, reordered slightly:
In particular I think its useful for highlighting issues the public care
more about. For instance a couple of says ago whilst Pakistan was the
headline, most of us were reading the climate change story.
Are you sure Pakistan was the headline? The climate
John Wards wrote:
preg_match(|(The forecast for (.*), (.*) on .*): (.*)\.
(.*)|,$description,$match);
I'd make the .*s .*?s (or add a U), just in case it ever had a new entry
added along the lines of Last checked by: Mr. Jones
preg_match_all(| (.*):
John Wards wrote:
Ah it does though as I add a , to the end of the subject which catches the
sunset.
Duh, of course, sorry. Hopefully my other suggestion still stands. :)
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Michael Ferenduros wrote:
Feeds listed by country/place:
http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml
Wow, that's great, thanks. :) You found *another* Aberdeen, too:
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4005.xml
with a slightly different forecase to:
Hey Kass,
Kathryn Schmitt wrote:
I am very pleased to inform you that BBC Weather's first RSS feeds are
now live. Links to them can be found on all 5 day forecast pages:
_http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml_
That's great. :) I know an awful lot of hard work must have gone into this.
My
Whoops, missent via a rogue cut'n'paste before I'd written any text, sorry!
Keith wrote:
The problem 've run into is that WS schedules don't seem to provide a
feed of any sort. Does anyone have any ideas of how I could get around this?
The BBC Web API -
Murray, Simon (IED) wrote:
I'm interested in using .Net and the HttpWebRequest class,
but would welcome any guidance on the subject particularly when
accessing data spanning across multiple pages.
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ might be useful? I've heard
good things about it.
Phil Whelan wrote:
Web 2.0 for me is the movement of the web from something you read to
something you participate in, and the new web-communities helping to
build sites with which they have an interest. This is enabled by new
technologies such as blogs, readers leaving comments, voting,
Kim Plowright wrote:
I'd be really interested to hear what everyone here thinks. Am I missing things?
It reads like a very good list, certainly... of what I'd expect *any*
website to do! :-) Perhaps it's just me and the whole Web2.0 blah, but
certainly anything in the Code section (apart
, Matthew Somerville wrote:
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
the application I am describing, promoting and developing benefits
people with a learning disability so your quote may be relevant:
not for profit playing of sound recordings and to help visually
impaired people.
Sadly, the latter only
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
given the BBC's remit might this mean they need to ensure that they have
copyright clearance, if they need it?
Sorry, I don't understand. The whole point of the Copyright (Visually
Impaired Persons) Act is that it enables (some) people to make accessible
versions of
michael nt milne wrote:
Just wondering when the Homepage Archive at www.bbc.co.uk/homearchive
will be more heavily promoted? It's an excellent service and deserves
more promotion.
Thanks. :-) No bias there. ;)
Although I have
noticed recently that the Planet Earth promos on the Homepage
Dharmesh Raithatha wrote:
Has anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click on
the map to make a web request with the location clicked on?
Sorry if I've misunderstood the question, and usual caveat of code in
emails, but something like this should work:
James wrote:
I've made an addition to the BBCBOT, its a small application which sits
in the systray and pops up a notification when your show is about to
start. It removes the MSN feature and I think its a better idea.
Now, I probably wouldn't install a separate application (and/or Java
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
sense of humour failure isn't usually this prevalent even in the BBC.
How is anyone meant to know if you're joking or not? I believe that's why
smileys were invented.
how about an answer to the original mail:
Could anyone enlighten me as to how much grades 7D and
Brit wrote:
We do VW - www.newgolfgti.co.uk being the latest.
Try doing that in HTML.
I don't have a problem with Flash if used appropriately [1], but I do have a
problem with my Flash-disabled browser being redirected to the
experienceFlashYes.html page (which is then a plain black page,
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