Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Per Jessen
rene7705 wrote:

 In response to critiques about my download size, I've removed scenejs
 and the artwork for my own site-logos from the zip. The size is now
 38mb, down from 54mb.

I think it took about a minute at about 470kb/sec. 

 I'm also using 7-zip now, I hope it opens better on non-windows OSes.

It worked fine with unzip on linux.



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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Jason Pruim
Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little slow. 

But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might want to 
look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more common. 

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread rene7705
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jason Pruim li...@pruimphotography.comwrote:

 Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little
 slow.

 But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might want
 to look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more common.

 Jason Pruim


 I wish I had the money for an real iPad, so I could test it properly.
What part of the navigation doesn't work? Do the links in the content work?


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread rene7705
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote:

 rene7705 wrote:

  In response to critiques about my download size, I've removed scenejs
  and the artwork for my own site-logos from the zip. The size is now
  38mb, down from 54mb.

 I think it took about a minute at about 470kb/sec.


I get much better datarates, around 1.5 to 2mb/s... But then again, the
server is in europe, and so am I.
But I guess a minute is OK...



  I'm also using 7-zip now, I hope it opens better on non-windows OSes.

 It worked fine with unzip on linux.

 Cool :) I hope it works on macOS too! :)


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread rene7705
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:34 PM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jason Pruim 
 li...@pruimphotography.comwrote:

 Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little
 slow.

 But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might want
 to look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more common.

 Jason Pruim


 I wish I had the money for an real iPad, so I could test it properly.
 What part of the navigation doesn't work? Do the links in the content
 work?

 BTW folks, I also tested it on my samsung smartphone, and my site doesn't
work on it yet.
Compatibility (also with non-desktop devices) will remain high on my
priority list.


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Jason Pruim


On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:34 AM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jason Pruim 
 li...@pruimphotography.comwrote:
 
 Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little
 slow.
 
 But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might want
 to look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more common.
 
 Jason Pruim
 
 
 I wish I had the money for an real iPad, so I could test it properly.
 What part of the navigation doesn't work? Do the links in the content work?

From what I can tell its the links on the top... The ones in the Content seem 
to work but I didn't check all of them. 
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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread rene7705
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Jason Pruim li...@pruimphotography.comwrote:



 On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:34 AM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:

  On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jason Pruim li...@pruimphotography.com
 wrote:
 
  Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little
  slow.
 
  But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might
 want
  to look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more
 common.
 
  Jason Pruim
 
 
  I wish I had the money for an real iPad, so I could test it properly.
  What part of the navigation doesn't work? Do the links in the content
 work?

 From what I can tell its the links on the top... The ones in the Content
 seem to work but I didn't check all of them.


It won't be easy for me to debug the menu and button components (links on
the top), as I have no friends or family with an iPad i think. But i'll ask
around.


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Jason Pruim

On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:54 AM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Jason Pruim 
 li...@pruimphotography.comwrote:
 
 
 
 On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:34 AM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jason Pruim li...@pruimphotography.com
 wrote:
 
 Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little
 slow.
 
 But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might
 want
 to look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more
 common.
 
 Jason Pruim
 
 
 I wish I had the money for an real iPad, so I could test it properly.
 What part of the navigation doesn't work? Do the links in the content
 work?
 
 From what I can tell its the links on the top... The ones in the Content
 seem to work but I didn't check all of them.
 
 
 It won't be easy for me to debug the menu and button components (links on
 the top), as I have no friends or family with an iPad i think. But i'll ask
 around.

One piece of advice that I have been given is to make everything work at its 
most basic structure first... Then add the fancy stuff to make it be what you 
want. That way as you develop and grow with what you know you can add features 
but your site will work fine without The fancy stuff. 



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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread rene7705
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:34 PM, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Jason Pruim 
 li...@pruimphotography.comwrote:

 Just tried to load it up on my iPad and the load time was okay... Little
 slow.

 But your navigation is completely non functional on my iPad... Might
 want to look into that since mobile devices are becoming more and more
 common.

 Jason Pruim


 I wish I had the money for an real iPad, so I could test it properly.
 What part of the navigation doesn't work? Do the links in the content
 work?

 BTW folks, I also tested it on my samsung smartphone, and my site doesn't
 work on it yet.
 Compatibility (also with non-desktop devices) will remain high on my
 priority list.


And another thing I'll put on my to-do list is some way to detect slow
links and mobile devices, to send over much lighter artwork (no 2mb logo
when you're on a slow/metered link)..


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Per Jessen
rene7705 wrote:

 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Per Jessen p...@computer.org wrote:
 
 rene7705 wrote:

  In response to critiques about my download size, I've removed
  scenejs and the artwork for my own site-logos from the zip. The
  size is now 38mb, down from 54mb.

 I think it took about a minute at about 470kb/sec.

 
 I get much better datarates, around 1.5 to 2mb/s... But then again,
 the server is in europe, and so am I.

I'm in Europe too, but your server is about 20 hops away.  470kb/s is
pretty good on my 6Mbit downstream though. 



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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Tamara Temple

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:57:38 +0100, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com sent:

I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
source of) http://mediabeez.ws


I seem a bit late to this party, but just wanted to say that the  
artwork is quite impressive, although I doubt I'd have really much use  
for the code parts.



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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Tim Streater
On 18 Mar 2012 at 16:39, Tamara Temple tamouse.li...@tamaratemple.com wrote: 

 On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:57:38 +0100, rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com sent:
 I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
 months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
 source of) http://mediabeez.ws

 I seem a bit late to this party, but just wanted to say that the
 artwork is quite impressive, although I doubt I'd have really much use
 for the code parts.

I don't like:

a) menus that just spring into life because you happen to mouse near them. You 
should have to sick to activate a menu.

b) bright flashy distracting items on a website. Like the OP's menus.

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Tim Streater
On 18 Mar 2012 at 17:06, Tim Streater t...@clothears.org.uk wrote: 

 I don't like:

 a) menus that just spring into life because you happen to mouse near them. You
 should have to sick to activate a menu.

Damned autocorrect. s/sick/click/

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-18 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 17:17 +, Tim Streater wrote:

 On 18 Mar 2012 at 17:06, Tim Streater t...@clothears.org.uk wrote: 
 
  I don't like:
 
  a) menus that just spring into life because you happen to mouse near them. 
  You
  should have to sick to activate a menu.
 
 Damned autocorrect. s/sick/click/
 
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I would say it depends on the situation. Forcing an extra click rather
than a mouse over (or activation by tabbing to the element) could be an
issue for some disabilities, but having said that, relying on a mouse
over only is a big no too, as there are plenty of people who are unable
to use a mouse well, if at all; we're talking old arthritic users, or
people without the use of their hands, for example.

That's why, for navigation, I'd rely on the standard links to do the
work, and then, as others have mentioned on this thread already, enhance
that with script. Add extra menus that can be triggered to show for
multiple events (hover, activation by tabbing in, etc)

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 22:11 +0100, rene7705 wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
  
   As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future
  or current fast internet connections.
   Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
  become faster still.
   And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..
  
   That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to
  download the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s.
  Your homepage takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real
  world, especially when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only
  guessing here) not under heavy load.
  
   Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it
  can cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further
  into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna
  need it).
  
   -Stuart
  
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   3ft9 Ltd
   http://3ft9.com/
  
 
  Yup... I think rene forgot the fact is if each client requests pull
  1MB/s , his upload has to be at least 120MB/s for 100 simultaneous
  clients' connections.  Last time I check in ISP services, that
  bandwidth falls within OC-12+ category
 
 
 If ya'll would take a closer look at my site, you'd see that most of the
 size is in artwork.
 If you want a simple site, use simple artwork.
 It's _not_ my code's size that's any problem, as I mentioned earlier.
 
 Enough for now, I'll look at this list tomorrow again.
 Time for partying with the live mix at frequence3.fr now..


Just adding my own two pennies to this lot.

It does seem a little irresponsible to create such a large (in size)
website, especially when you consider that in many countries people
don't have high-speed or unlimited access. Even the UK has lots of areas
with only basic Internet access via dial-up lines, and plenty of people
rely on mobile dongles to connect, which are most often metered and
slow.

On to the technicals of what you wanted us to look at, because I think
this thread has become slightly derailed from the original question.


  * The 'Home: Downloads, Blog' link at the top doesn't work for me
at all. I'm using Fx 3.6 on Fedora 14
  * The drop-down menu appears odd, with some items appearing over
the others
  * The products menu at the top does nothing when clicked on
  * Other 'pages' take a long time to load in


Sorry, but it really doesn't look very professional when basic things
(like links) don't work at all. I'd hate to have any kind of disability
because I doubt any screen readers would work, and using your site with
only a keyboard would probably be just as impossible.

That might seem like harsh feedback, but I do have quite a strong view
on accessibility.

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread rene7705
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Govinda govinda.webdnat...@gmail.comwrote:

 Everyone makes valid points.. and depending on ones perspective, certain
 of those points are more important than others... but, because of my nature
 anyway, I want to just say thanks to rene7705 for bothering.   He is not
 trying to take anything.. but just share his creative process, in case it
 is fun for anyone, or useful for anyone.  He undoubtedly wants to improve
 too.. but there is the middle step where positive reinforcement is the most
 pertinent thing.   Rene, don't mind the tones here.. we all get paid to
 scrutinize, so it can be hard to snap out of that critical mindset
 sometimes.

 -Govinda


Thanks..


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread rene7705
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:

 On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:53, rene7705 wrote:
  On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
  On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:36, rene7705 wrote:
 
   On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com
 wrote:
   On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote:
  
Hi Folks..
   
I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the
 last
months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at
 (the
source of) http://mediabeez.ws
   
I think you'll like my opensourced work :)
   
Feedback is appreciated.
  
   I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79
 on OSX - not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at
 all). The download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further.
  
   And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to
 judge, but right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to
 work? What external libraries are you using?
  
   Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump
 out...
  
   * The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near
 production-ready.
  
   * The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of
 the browser window.
  
   * Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed!
  
   I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on
 what it does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the
 late 90s. You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I don't
 know because it's buried under 50MB of other stuff that I almost certainly
 don't care about, and that's before I've even been able to download it.
  
   ok..
  
   That being unable to download the zip file correctly is something
 I'll take up with my hosting provider tomorrow.
   I've downloaded it in full and opened it OK in winrar just now, btw.
  
   The zip-file is created with winrar on windows 7, and according to
 Floyd Resler has to get it's extension changed to .rar, then decompressed
 with Stuffit Expander. Also something to look into soon, btw.
 
  That would explain why every zip decompression utility I've tried
 thinks it's corrupt.
 
   As for my menu being jittery, it's not jittery on any of the windows
 browsers I tested.
   And I have no mac-book available to me, not even from friends and
 family who are all on windows (on my recommendation btw ;)
 
  Are you ready for the shocking truth... not every computer in the world
 runs Windows, so unless you've developed this purely for the friends and
 family you've convinced to do so you may want to rethink your approach to
 testing.
 
   As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the
 future or current fast internet connections.
   Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets
 to become faster still.
   And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..
 
  That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to
 download the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s.
 Your homepage takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real
 world, especially when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only
 guessing here) not under heavy load.
 
  Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it
 can cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further
 into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna
 need it).
 
  Okay, I don't wanna get into an argument here..

 Shame, because I'd love to see you try to defend a position that promotes
 wasting resources just because they're there. This is not a new thing -
 ever-increasing computing resources have always led to this short-sighted
 view in the inexperienced, but trust me when I say you'll regret it when
 you're paying for the bandwidth being used by thousands of people
 simultaneously using a site that's using your framework. Why do you think
 other libraries such as jquery recommend minifying their code before
 deployment, and then serving it via gzip? Every bit and byte counts,
 especially as you scale up.


The javascripts are currenlty being served unminified via gzip, because
minifying them all the time creates too much overhead for me. If you want
them minified you can easily do that yourself.



 Anyway, I'm not trying to get into an argument (it's rare that I do), but
 I do recommend that you take in what I've said on this issue. The size of
 the data you're sending down the pipe matters if you want your library to
 be used for anything serious, and no amount of artwork or pretty pictures
 will distract anyone for long.


The download size will hardly be an issue for site operators, whom i
seriously suspect will be on faster links.
And the usage size doesn't have to be large, as mentioned earlier.



  Rest assured, all the javascript for my animated 

Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread rene7705
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ashley Sheridan
a...@ashleysheridan.co.ukwrote:

 **
 On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 22:11 +0100, rene7705 wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote:

  On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
  
   As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future
  or current fast internet connections.
   Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
  become faster still.
   And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..
  
   That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to
  download the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s.
  Your homepage takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real
  world, especially when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only
  guessing here) not under heavy load.
  
   Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it
  can cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further
  into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna
  need it).
  
   -Stuart
  
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   3ft9 Ltd
   http://3ft9.com/
  
 
  Yup... I think rene forgot the fact is if each client requests pull
  1MB/s , his upload has to be at least 120MB/s for 100 simultaneous
  clients' connections.  Last time I check in ISP services, that
  bandwidth falls within OC-12+ category
 

 If ya'll would take a closer look at my site, you'd see that most of the
 size is in artwork.
 If you want a simple site, use simple artwork.
 It's _not_ my code's size that's any problem, as I mentioned earlier.

 Enough for now, I'll look at this list tomorrow again.
 Time for partying with the live mix at frequence3.fr now..


 Just adding my own two pennies to this lot.

 It does seem a little irresponsible to create such a large (in size)
 website, especially when you consider that in many countries people don't
 have high-speed or unlimited access. Even the UK has lots of areas with
 only basic Internet access via dial-up lines, and plenty of people rely on
 mobile dongles to connect, which are most often metered and slow.

 On to the technicals of what you wanted us to look at, because I think
 this thread has become slightly derailed from the original question.


The original comment was that I had licked HTML5 History API + caching.
No-one has even commented on that part.




- The 'Home: Downloads, Blog' link at the top doesn't work for me at
all. I'm using Fx 3.6 on Fedora 14

 True, coz that link should point to the homepage. I decided not to spread
my content out over tons of pages, or to create redundant content.



-
- The drop-down menu appears odd, with some items appearing over the
others

 That's by design but can be changed in the source quite easily
(animatedJavascriptMenu-1.0.0.source.js)



-
- The products menu at the top does nothing when clicked on

 Same as the Home:Downloads,Blog link.



-
- Other 'pages' take a long time to load in

 Strange, they don't here, and it should drop to 0 once the cache is filled
up.



-


 Sorry, but it really doesn't look very professional when basic things
 (like links) don't work at all. I'd hate to have any kind of disability
 because I doubt any screen readers would work, and using your site with
 only a keyboard would probably be just as impossible.


You can probably use the links in the content to get around the site.
Sorry the menu isn't accessible with keyboard, but that's something I don't
feel like making my problem right now.
I want to create content sites with these components, not get stuck in code
issue after code issue.
But hey, if you want to improve the components, and send me the result
back, I'll surely credit you where appropriate.



 That might seem like harsh feedback, but I do have quite a strong view on
 accessibility.


Ok. As I said, the content links can be used to browse around. Not ideal,
but it will do imo.


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread rene7705
In response to critiques about my download size, I've removed scenejs and
the artwork for my own site-logos from the zip. The size is now 38mb, down
from 54mb.

I'm also using 7-zip now, I hope it opens better on non-windows OSes.


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 17 Mar 2012, at 10:54, rene7705 wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
 Why do you think other libraries such as jquery recommend minifying their 
 code before deployment, and then serving it via gzip? Every bit and byte 
 counts, especially as you scale up.
 
 The javascripts are currenlty being served unminified via gzip, because 
 minifying them all the time creates too much overhead for me. If you want 
 them minified you can easily do that yourself.

Write a script that does the minifying, and everything else necessary to create 
a distribution file. Do you really think someone manually runs jquery through 
the minifier whenever they create a new release? As it happens, they use make: 
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/Makefile

It seems you're pretty new to all this, and I appreciate that, but you show 
little to no willingness to learn from the people on this mailing list, despite 
asking for feedback.

 Anyway, I'm not trying to get into an argument (it's rare that I do), but I 
 do recommend that you take in what I've said on this issue. The size of the 
 data you're sending down the pipe matters if you want your library to be used 
 for anything serious, and no amount of artwork or pretty pictures will 
 distract anyone for long.
 
 The download size will hardly be an issue for site operators, whom i 
 seriously suspect will be on faster links.
 And the usage size doesn't have to be large, as mentioned earlier.

This comment shows how little you understand about the world from your haven of 
high-speed internet. Part of the beauty of the internet is that it allows 
people to disseminate information on a shoestring. I guarantee that 90+% of the 
people behind the billions of websites in the world access the internet through 
what you would probably consider a stone age connection.

It may surprise you to know that two thirds of the people on the planet do not 
have any access to the internet at all: 
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

 Just remember one thing: If you see something obviously wrong, why not send 
 me the fix?

I will, if you pay me. Open source developers don't do what they do just 
because it's there, at least not for the most part. They do it because their 
goals align with those of the project, or because the project presents a 
particular challenge.

What are your goals for this project? Why did you develop it instead of using 
an existing library/framework?

Here's why I won't be sending you any fixes…

* There doesn't appear to be anything your library does that makes it stand out 
from the thousands of similar libraries that already exist, many of which are 
far more mature and have large numbers of contributors.

* It's a very, very long way off being suitable for usage as a black box.

* I see absolutely no value in using your library, either personally or 
professionally, never mind contributing to it.

* Your attitude to the most basic and important advice you've been given 
practically guarantees that getting involved would be incredibly frustrating 
and fruitless.

Oh, and in case it wasn't clear, you'd need to pay me *a lot*!

I don't mean any offence, and I really do applaud your efforts, but in my 
opinion you need a sharp dose of reality. I encourage you to continue to work 
on your library because this sort of thing is usually a great learning 
experience, but don't expect people to help you out when your response to the 
most basic advice is that's too much overhead for me. Add the fact that you 
didn't even respond to the very serious security issues I raised and you can't 
possibly be surprised if nobody wants anything to do with it. Oh, and it 
doesn't matter if that particular code is not actually used because it's likely 
indicative of the overall quality of the rest of the library.

-Stuart

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread rene7705
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:

 On 17 Mar 2012, at 10:54, rene7705 wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:

 Why do you think other libraries such as jquery recommend minifying their
 code before deployment, and then serving it via gzip? Every bit and byte
 counts, especially as you scale up.


 The javascripts are currenlty being served unminified via gzip, because
 minifying them all the time creates too much overhead for me. If you want
 them minified you can easily do that yourself.


 Write a script that does the minifying, and everything else necessary to
 create a distribution file. Do you really think someone manually runs
 jquery through the minifier whenever they create a new release? As it
 happens, they use make:
 https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/Makefile

 It seems you're pretty new to all this, and I appreciate that, but you
 show little to no willingness to learn from the people on this mailing
 list, despite asking for feedback.


  Anyway, I'm not trying to get into an argument (it's rare that I do), but
 I do recommend that you take in what I've said on this issue. The size of
 the data you're sending down the pipe matters if you want your library to
 be used for anything serious, and no amount of artwork or pretty pictures
 will distract anyone for long.


 The download size will hardly be an issue for site operators, whom i
 seriously suspect will be on faster links.
 And the usage size doesn't have to be large, as mentioned earlier.


 This comment shows how little you understand about the world from your
 haven of high-speed internet. Part of the beauty of the internet is that it
 allows people to disseminate information on a shoestring. I guarantee that
 90+% of the people behind the billions of websites in the world access the
 internet through what you would probably consider a stone age connection.

 It may surprise you to know that two thirds of the people on the planet do
 not have any access to the internet at all:
 http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

 Just remember one thing: If you see something obviously wrong, why not
 send me the fix?


 I will, if you pay me. Open source developers don't do what they do just
 because it's there, at least not for the most part. They do it because
 their goals align with those of the project, or because the project
 presents a particular challenge.

 What are your goals for this project? Why did you develop it instead of
 using an existing library/framework?

 Here's why I won't be sending you any fixes…

 * There doesn't appear to be anything your library does that makes it
 stand out from the thousands of similar libraries that already exist, many
 of which are far more mature and have large numbers of contributors.

 * It's a very, very long way off being suitable for usage as a black box.

 * I see absolutely no value in using your library, either personally or
 professionally, never mind contributing to it.

 * Your attitude to the most basic and important advice you've been given
 practically guarantees that getting involved would be incredibly
 frustrating and fruitless.

 Oh, and in case it wasn't clear, you'd need to pay me *a lot*!

 I don't mean any offence, and I really do applaud your efforts, but in my
 opinion you need a sharp dose of reality. I encourage you to continue to
 work on your library because this sort of thing is usually a great learning
 experience, but don't expect people to help you out when your response to
 the most basic advice is that's too much overhead for me. Add the fact
 that you didn't even respond to the very serious security issues I raised
 and you can't possibly be surprised if nobody wants anything to do with it.
 Oh, and it doesn't matter if that particular code is not actually used
 because it's likely indicative of the overall quality of the rest of the
 library.

 -Stuart


Thanks for taking the time to explain your critiques.

It's just that I don't put out my software completely free to next be
overflowed with more work based on relatively vague descriptions of what
would be wrong with it.
I put it out there so more experienced programmers can send me improved
versions.
If you don't feel like doing that for free, that's your right of course.

The relatively crappy code in /code/sitewide_rv/lib_fileSystem.php is
certainly not indicative of the quality of the rest of the library, I'll
guarantee you. Just take a look at the output of
get_animatedJavascriptWidgets_javascript.php in the source of my
http://mediabeez.ws, and you'll see that that code is indeed of higher
quality.

As for minifying the javascripts, it would take me another day, maybe 2, to
build a script for that.
And I don't think it would matter much, all the animatedJavascriptWidgets
JS is gzipped 25kb and if I shave 5kb off that (upper estimate) then I
don't consider that worth the effort, at this particular time. I have other

Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip]
 As for minifying the javascripts, it would take me another day, maybe 2, to
 build a script for that.
 And I don't think it would matter much, all the animatedJavascriptWidgets
 JS is gzipped 25kb and if I shave 5kb off that (upper estimate) then I
 don't consider that worth the effort, at this particular time. I have other
 things (content creation and compatibility) I want to get done atm.
[/snip]

Really? A day or two? Minifiying also tends to reduce code size by 50% or more 
depending on the author. If you only get a 25% reduction it is time to take a 
look at your coding practices.

[snip]
 I wrote this library because I have been unable to find anything like it on
 the interwebs.
 I put it out for free because I think it's cool to give something back to
 the opensource community.
 But, again, I'm not interested in having my priority list hijacked by
 experts who won't bother just to give me back the fix.
[/snip]

Put it on Github and see how many free labor….uh, er…code fixers you can 
attract.

Giving back to the community is a great thing, it is why many expert PHP coders 
are on this list. They are already providing you with fixes that you aren't 
listening to regardless of the language that these fixes are couched in. 
Community is about give and take and you have started your foray into the 
community by disallowing take. 

Good luck!
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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-17 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 17 Mar 2012, at 15:02, rene7705 wrote:
 The relatively crappy code in /code/sitewide_rv/lib_fileSystem.php is 
 certainly not indicative of the quality of the rest of the library, I'll 
 guarantee you. Just take a look at the output of 
 get_animatedJavascriptWidgets_javascript.php in the source of my 
 http://mediabeez.ws, and you'll see that that code is indeed of higher 
 quality.

Curious example you've decided to highlight there. A few thoughts...

* It appears to be serving static javascript content. Why is PHP involved at 
all here?!?

* It's using a hell of a lot more memory than it needs to by loading said 
static content into a variable rather than simply including the files directly.

* The animatedThemes function appears to be loading and decoding json only to 
re-encode it again before output. Err, why?

 I wrote this library because I have been unable to find anything like it on 
 the interwebs.

I'm somewhat unclear on exactly what problem this library is attempting to 
solve. The site says video-enabled [stuff] which sounds like nothing more 
complicated than animated images. Am I missing something?

 I put it out for free because I think it's cool to give something back to the 
 opensource community.

Which is fantastic and should definitely be encouraged, but if you're not 
interested in feedback don't ask for it.

 But, again, I'm not interested in having my priority list hijacked by experts 
 who won't bother just to give me back the fix.

I couldn't care less about your priority list if my life depended on it. You 
asked for feedback; I gave you feedback. Everything I do I do for at least one 
of the following three reasons, in descending order of importance...

* It interests me.

* It benefits me in some way, now or in the future.

* I'm being paid for it.

Sorting out the issues with your code doesn't meet any of these motivations. 
Giving you feedback met two out of the three, which Mr Loaf asserts as !bad. 
One of those fell away when you responded to said feedback by defending your 
code as if it were intimately attached to your body. The last remaining 
motivation is hanging by a thread.

 Have a nice day.

Thanks, I will. You have a nice day too.

Snap.

-Stuart

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote:

 Hi Folks..
 
 I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
 months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
 source of) http://mediabeez.ws
 
 I think you'll like my opensourced work :)
 
 Feedback is appreciated.

I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79 on OSX - 
not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at all). The 
download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further.

And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to judge, but 
right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to work? What 
external libraries are you using?

Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump out...

* The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near 
production-ready.

* The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of the browser 
window.

* Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed!

I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on what it 
does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the late 90s. 
You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I don't know because 
it's buried under 50MB of other stuff that I almost certainly don't care 
about, and that's before I've even been able to download it.

-Stuart

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread rene7705
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:

 On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote:

  Hi Folks..
 
  I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
  months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
  source of) http://mediabeez.ws
 
  I think you'll like my opensourced work :)
 
  Feedback is appreciated.

 I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79 on
 OSX - not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at
 all). The download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further.

 And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to judge,
 but right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to work?
 What external libraries are you using?

 Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump out...

 * The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near
 production-ready.

 * The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of the
 browser window.

 * Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed!

 I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on what
 it does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the late
 90s. You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I don't know
 because it's buried under 50MB of other stuff that I almost certainly
 don't care about, and that's before I've even been able to download it.

 -Stuart

 --
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ok..

That being unable to download the zip file correctly is something I'll take
up with my hosting provider tomorrow.
I've downloaded it in full and opened it OK in winrar just now, btw.

The zip-file is created with winrar on windows 7, and according to Floyd
Resler has to get it's extension changed to .rar, then decompressed with
Stuffit Expander. Also something to look into soon, btw.

As for my menu being jittery, it's not jittery on any of the windows
browsers I tested.
And I have no mac-book available to me, not even from friends and family
who are all on windows (on my recommendation btw ;)

As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future or
current fast internet connections.
Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
become faster still.
And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Giner

rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote in message 
news:CADegSEbpRnu47ub-XHyGF8JyK9BBcr7R=p157tO3R_k3+8RH=g...@mail.gmail.com...

 As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future or
 current fast internet connections.
 Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
 become faster still.
 And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..


You don't care about size reduction??  You think the entire world is going 
to move to faster nets in the next couple of years even??? 



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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread rene7705
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.comwrote:


 rene7705 rene7...@gmail.com wrote in message
 news:CADegSEbpRnu47ub-XHyGF8JyK9BBcr7R=p157tO3R_k3+8RH=g...@mail.gmail.com...
 
  As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future or
  current fast internet connections.
  Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
  become faster still.
  And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..
 

 You don't care about size reduction??  You think the entire world is going
 to move to faster nets in the next couple of years even???


Yep, that's what I observed so far, not just here in .nl btw.
And I expect that trend to continue as they're now putting fibre to the
home in the first neighborhoods here.


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:36, rene7705 wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
 On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote:
 
  Hi Folks..
 
  I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
  months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
  source of) http://mediabeez.ws
 
  I think you'll like my opensourced work :)
 
  Feedback is appreciated.
 
 I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79 on OSX 
 - not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at all). 
 The download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further.
 
 And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to judge, 
 but right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to work? 
 What external libraries are you using?
 
 Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump out...
 
 * The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near 
 production-ready.
 
 * The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of the 
 browser window.
 
 * Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed!
 
 I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on what it 
 does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the late 
 90s. You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I don't know 
 because it's buried under 50MB of other stuff that I almost certainly don't 
 care about, and that's before I've even been able to download it.
 
 ok..
 
 That being unable to download the zip file correctly is something I'll take 
 up with my hosting provider tomorrow.
 I've downloaded it in full and opened it OK in winrar just now, btw.
 
 The zip-file is created with winrar on windows 7, and according to Floyd 
 Resler has to get it's extension changed to .rar, then decompressed with 
 Stuffit Expander. Also something to look into soon, btw.

That would explain why every zip decompression utility I've tried thinks it's 
corrupt.

 As for my menu being jittery, it's not jittery on any of the windows browsers 
 I tested.
 And I have no mac-book available to me, not even from friends and family who 
 are all on windows (on my recommendation btw ;)

Are you ready for the shocking truth... not every computer in the world runs 
Windows, so unless you've developed this purely for the friends and family 
you've convinced to do so you may want to rethink your approach to testing.

 As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future or 
 current fast internet connections.
 Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to become 
 faster still.
 And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..

That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to download 
the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s. Your homepage 
takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real world, especially 
when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only guessing here) not 
under heavy load.

Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it can 
cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further into 
your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna need it).

-Stuart

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Jim Giner

Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote in message 
news:292A87F4-AEE0-449E-BF90-45e3a0b70...@3ft9.com...
Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it can 
cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further 
into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna 
need it).


Here! Here! 



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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread rene7705
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:

 On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:36, rene7705 wrote:

  On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
  On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote:
 
   Hi Folks..
  
   I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
   months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
   source of) http://mediabeez.ws
  
   I think you'll like my opensourced work :)
  
   Feedback is appreciated.
 
  I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79 on
 OSX - not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at
 all). The download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further.
 
  And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to
 judge, but right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to
 work? What external libraries are you using?
 
  Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump
 out...
 
  * The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near
 production-ready.
 
  * The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of the
 browser window.
 
  * Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed!
 
  I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on
 what it does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the
 late 90s. You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I don't
 know because it's buried under 50MB of other stuff that I almost certainly
 don't care about, and that's before I've even been able to download it.
 
  ok..
 
  That being unable to download the zip file correctly is something I'll
 take up with my hosting provider tomorrow.
  I've downloaded it in full and opened it OK in winrar just now, btw.
 
  The zip-file is created with winrar on windows 7, and according to Floyd
 Resler has to get it's extension changed to .rar, then decompressed with
 Stuffit Expander. Also something to look into soon, btw.

 That would explain why every zip decompression utility I've tried thinks
 it's corrupt.

  As for my menu being jittery, it's not jittery on any of the windows
 browsers I tested.
  And I have no mac-book available to me, not even from friends and family
 who are all on windows (on my recommendation btw ;)

 Are you ready for the shocking truth... not every computer in the world
 runs Windows, so unless you've developed this purely for the friends and
 family you've convinced to do so you may want to rethink your approach to
 testing.

  As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future
 or current fast internet connections.
  Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
 become faster still.
  And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..

 That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to
 download the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s.
 Your homepage takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real
 world, especially when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only
 guessing here) not under heavy load.

 Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it
 can cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further
 into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna
 need it).

 -Stuart

 Okay, I don't wanna get into an argument here..

Rest assured, all the javascript for my animated widgets combined is about
25kb.

The artwork for simple animations is about 100kb per button/menu-item theme.

The fact that I demo how to put video on a button and thus end up with
nearly a dozen button themes that are about 2MB each, is just taking
advantage of the fast links that are available in much of the world.

About me testing only on windows, you're right about that and I'll see if I
can do something to improve my testing regime. For now i'm dependent on
your patience and bugreports tho.

 And I had no idea winrar made such crappy zip files, I'll look into a
replacement very soon.


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Marc Guay
Is this a Fun Friday trolling?

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Tommy Pham
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:

 As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future or 
 current fast internet connections.
 Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to 
 become faster still.
 And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..

 That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to download 
 the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s. Your homepage 
 takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real world, especially 
 when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only guessing here) not 
 under heavy load.

 Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it can 
 cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further into 
 your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna need it).

 -Stuart

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Yup... I think rene forgot the fact is if each client requests pull
1MB/s , his upload has to be at least 120MB/s for 100 simultaneous
clients' connections.  Last time I check in ISP services, that
bandwidth falls within OC-12+ category

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread rene7705
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Tommy Pham tommy...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
 
  As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future
 or current fast internet connections.
  Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to
 become faster still.
  And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..
 
  That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to
 download the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s.
 Your homepage takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real
 world, especially when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only
 guessing here) not under heavy load.
 
  Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it
 can cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further
 into your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna
 need it).
 
  -Stuart
 
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  3ft9 Ltd
  http://3ft9.com/
 

 Yup... I think rene forgot the fact is if each client requests pull
 1MB/s , his upload has to be at least 120MB/s for 100 simultaneous
 clients' connections.  Last time I check in ISP services, that
 bandwidth falls within OC-12+ category


If ya'll would take a closer look at my site, you'd see that most of the
size is in artwork.
If you want a simple site, use simple artwork.
It's _not_ my code's size that's any problem, as I mentioned earlier.

Enough for now, I'll look at this list tomorrow again.
Time for partying with the live mix at frequence3.fr now..


Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Govinda
Everyone makes valid points.. and depending on ones perspective, certain of 
those points are more important than others... but, because of my nature 
anyway, I want to just say thanks to rene7705 for bothering.   He is not trying 
to take anything.. but just share his creative process, in case it is fun for 
anyone, or useful for anyone.  He undoubtedly wants to improve too.. but there 
is the middle step where positive reinforcement is the most pertinent thing.   
Rene, don't mind the tones here.. we all get paid to scrutinize, so it can be 
hard to snap out of that critical mindset sometimes.

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Re: [PHP] Got HTML5 History API + caching LICKED, I think, grin

2012-03-16 Thread Stuart Dallas
On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:53, rene7705 wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
 On 16 Mar 2012, at 20:36, rene7705 wrote:
 
  On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Stuart Dallas stu...@3ft9.com wrote:
  On 16 Mar 2012, at 18:57, rene7705 wrote:
 
   Hi Folks..
  
   I could waste a lot of text on what I've accomplished during the last
   months, but the easiest thing is if you have a (another) look at (the
   source of) http://mediabeez.ws
  
   I think you'll like my opensourced work :)
  
   Feedback is appreciated.
 
  I'm also having trouble downloading the ZIP file (Chrome 17.0.963.79 on 
  OSX - not that the browser will have anything to do with this problem at 
  all). The download starts, gets to a few MB and doesn't get any further.
 
  And 52MB? Since I can't actually see what it contains it's hard to judge, 
  but right off the bat... is your artwork necessary for the thing to work? 
  What external libraries are you using?
 
  Just from looking around the site there are a few things that jump out...
 
  * The dropdown menus are incredible jittery, certainly nowhere near 
  production-ready.
 
  * The background image gets squished according to the dimensions of the 
  browser window.
 
  * Your homepage weighs in at massive 2.6MB. Nuff sed!
 
  I suggest you take the focus off the way it looks and concentrate on what 
  it does. Tabs with animated backgrounds remind me of websites from the 
  late 90s. You may have developed an incredible framework here, but I 
  don't know because it's buried under 50MB of other stuff that I almost 
  certainly don't care about, and that's before I've even been able to 
  download it.
 
  ok..
 
  That being unable to download the zip file correctly is something I'll 
  take up with my hosting provider tomorrow.
  I've downloaded it in full and opened it OK in winrar just now, btw.
 
  The zip-file is created with winrar on windows 7, and according to Floyd 
  Resler has to get it's extension changed to .rar, then decompressed with 
  Stuffit Expander. Also something to look into soon, btw.
 
 That would explain why every zip decompression utility I've tried thinks 
 it's corrupt.
 
  As for my menu being jittery, it's not jittery on any of the windows 
  browsers I tested.
  And I have no mac-book available to me, not even from friends and family 
  who are all on windows (on my recommendation btw ;)
 
 Are you ready for the shocking truth... not every computer in the world runs 
 Windows, so unless you've developed this purely for the friends and family 
 you've convinced to do so you may want to rethink your approach to testing.
 
  As for my files and homepage being Huge, yep, it's made for the future or 
  current fast internet connections.
  Frankly, size reduction is not on my agenda. I'll wait for the nets to 
  become faster still.
  And the server should spit it out at 2MB/s at least..
 
 That may be so, but when my 100Mbit/s connection finally managed to download 
 the file it took about 4 minutes, which is nowhere near 2MB/s. Your homepage 
 takes 7 seconds to load - that's unacceptable in the real world, especially 
 when you're talking about a server that's (and I'm only guessing here) not 
 under heavy load.
 
 Anyway, your comment about waiting for the nets (sic) to catch up so it can 
 cope with your bloat has convinced me to not bother looking any further into 
 your project, but I wish you the best of luck with it (you're gonna need it).
 
 Okay, I don't wanna get into an argument here..

Shame, because I'd love to see you try to defend a position that promotes 
wasting resources just because they're there. This is not a new thing - 
ever-increasing computing resources have always led to this short-sighted view 
in the inexperienced, but trust me when I say you'll regret it when you're 
paying for the bandwidth being used by thousands of people simultaneously using 
a site that's using your framework. Why do you think other libraries such as 
jquery recommend minifying their code before deployment, and then serving it 
via gzip? Every bit and byte counts, especially as you scale up.

Anyway, I'm not trying to get into an argument (it's rare that I do), but I do 
recommend that you take in what I've said on this issue. The size of the data 
you're sending down the pipe matters if you want your library to be used for 
anything serious, and no amount of artwork or pretty pictures will distract 
anyone for long.

 Rest assured, all the javascript for my animated widgets combined is about 
 25kb.

Good for you. You might want to produce a download that doesn't include the 
optional stuff so you can show how small it is, and provide examples that show 
off what it can do using just that code.

Incidentally, a little over 2MB of your homepage is the logo. 2MB for the logo? 
Seriously??

 The artwork for simple animations is about 100kb per button/menu-item theme.

100kB is not a simple animation, that's a mini-movie.