Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-29 Thread Clint Sharp
Jen Simmons wrote: > It's not that much more bandwidth to have two stylesheets -- I'm not > talking about two different websites. A stylesheet is like 4kb -- > smaller than one extra photo. Sorry, I was referring to bandwidth in terms of the fact that we don't have the personnel to handle it.

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Jen Simmons
Programming in Turbo Pascal... nothing super fancy. I mean, you know, high school. I'd moved up from Basic, which we learned in 7th grade -- I was lucky to be at public schools that had personal computers in 1982 ... jen On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Richard BF wrote: >Just doing my part to pr

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Richard BF
>Just doing my part to prove that girls can make great geeks too. I >didn't win the 1986 Oakton High School's Computer Science Student of >the Year Award for nothing! What did you win it for? Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vi

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Jen Simmons
Just doing my part to prove that girls can make great geeks too. I didn't win the 1986 Oakton High School's Computer Science Student of the Year Award for nothing! jen On Jan 27, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Markus Sandy wrote: alright! down with HTML tables! man, clint, she toasted your butt!  :) great

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Markus Sandy
alright! down with HTML tables! everyone should check out CSS Zen Garden if they haven't already done so, it's a great site http://www.csszengarden.com/ man, clint, she toasted your butt!  :) great feedback/comeback Jen Jen Simmons wrote: It's not that much more bandwidth to have two s

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Jen Simmons
It's not that much more bandwidth to have two stylesheets -- I'm not talking about two different websites. A stylesheet is like 4kb -- smaller than one extra photo. Looking at your code -- you are using structural xhtml for a lot of the page, but then you've got a table in there for positioning. I

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Clint Sharp
Jen Simmons wrote: > Can you use two different css style sheets? -- Have FireAnt pull up a > non-regular-web-browser stylesheet that has a different layout of the > same content. > > jen We've done that before, but the fact of the matter we just don't have the bandwidth to maintain the layout

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-27 Thread Clint Sharp
Pete Prodoehl wrote: > > Shouldn't indexers just ignore Ajax/Javascript stuff? Are you serving > different content to indexers? Are you worried about what that may do to > page ranking? I do, but it's a byproduct of having to give different features to different browsers. People have to do this

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Adam Quirk
On 1/26/06, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of my favorite features of Firefox 1.5 is the ability to automatically have all "new window" links open in a new tab!-VerdiP.S. The new FireAnt directory is freakin cool.Just seconding both these comments. 2nd and 2nd.AQ

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Jen Simmons
On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:01 AM, Clint Sharp wrote: We're also having issues with the fact that we're trying to design for a fairly narrow directory window in the application and a full browser window for everyone else. Can you use two different css style sheets? -- Have FireAnt pull up a non-

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Verdi
One of my favorite features of Firefox 1.5 is the ability to automatically have all "new window" links open in a new tab!-VerdiP.S. The new FireAnt directory is freakin cool. On 1/26/06, Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote:> My opinion... if your team and testers thin

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Michael Sullivan wrote: > My opinion... if your team and testers think something is so confusing, > instead of removing the option to travel to an actual videobloggers site > (which many vloggers would appreciate), how about you add a line of text, > either as a tooltip or some other way to display

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Clint Sharp wrote: > I'll test in Opera to see if our AJAX libraries work. It's actually > something I plan on fixing, but the ajax=off is added actually for > Safari, which pukes with Rico, our AJAX library. It's also there for > the search engines and other browsers I can't verify AJAX suppo

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Just a note to let everyone know that these are great comments. We will add easier access to the blog entry permalink. Great suggestion and will be implemented. Got a feature list that's super long at the moment. We'll get to everything on there. Thanks for all the feedback and encouragement! -jos

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
Clint,so the hostile attitude I'm picking up doesn't seem quite necessary. please dont go there.  no hostility at all.  lets not make drama out of some basic and typical feedback regarding these issues.  i'm certainly not picking a fight or anything childish.  everyone is allowed to comment and

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Clint Sharp
Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm quite surprised that of all sites, this one currently has blog > permalinks removed. > > > correction... i did see the comments link inside the preview player. > better than nothing, just wanted to point that out (as verdi did). > but would prefer the link bei

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread andrew michael baron
Here, here, much agreed. On Jan 26, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Point is... there are much more proper ways to avoiding possible > user confusion than just yanking out what I think is a critical > element of an "Open Directory". > I'm quite surprised that of all sites, this on

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm quite surprised that of all sites, this one currently has blog permalinks removed. correction... i did see the comments link inside the preview player.better than nothing, just wanted to point that out (as verdi did).but would prefer the link being somewhere without need to load up a video f

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
What up, Clint.We had it that way for a while (titles as permalinks) and it's confusing as hell for the user.  They're not expecting to be taken off site when every other link on the site drills down.My opinion... if your team and testers think something is so confusing, instead of removing the

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Verdi
I agree that a direct link could be confusing. You have a comment button in the preview window that takes you to the permalink. That works for me.-VerdiOn 1/26/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:30:25 +0100, Clint Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> We don't p

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-26 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:30:25 +0100, Clint Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We don't provide direct links to the media. Is this something people > would like to see? You can queue it and easily get that info out of the > RSS, but I'm not sure people would like us hotlinking to their media > fil

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Actually, one of the other things about this directory that is maybe a little different than others is that it also appears *inside* FireAnt.So, displaying direct download links are a little problematic if users are browsing from within FireAnt and would expect the download links to actually dow

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Clint Sharp
Andreas Haugstrup wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:44:14 +0100, Michael Sullivan  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > josh, > dont make me greasemonkey fireant! > ha. Hehe. :o) In Opera I get ?ajax=off appended to all links. I'm wondering what kind of  Ajax-y goodness I'm missing out on and I'

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Joshua Kinberg
Thanks for the feedback. We're definitely working on all this stuff. Expect more soon -Josh On 1/25/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:44:14 +0100, Michael Sullivan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > josh, > > dont make me greasemonkey fireant! > > ha.

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:44:14 +0100, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > josh, > dont make me greasemonkey fireant! > ha. Hehe. :o) In Opera I get ?ajax=off appended to all links. I'm wondering what kind of Ajax-y goodness I'm missing out on and I'm wondering if FireANT is doing so

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
josh,dont make me greasemonkey fireant!ha.On 1/25/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:01:59 +0100, Michael Sullivan< [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Am just browsing fireant site now and am i missing something or is there> no> download links for the media only

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Andreas Haugstrup
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:01:59 +0100, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am just browsing fireant site now and am i missing something or is there > no > download links for the media only the javascript previews? > correct me if i am wrong or missing the direct download links. The

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-25 Thread Michael Sullivan
Am just browsing fireant site now and am i missing something or is there no download links for the media only the _javascript_ previews?  correct me if i am wrong or missing the direct download links.thnx sullOn 1/24/06, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not believe in spam in this

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-24 Thread Jay dedman
>Great to see the launch. I've been waiting since MacWorld to talk about it! thanks. we really need you jump in and test the waters. take some time and see how it works. jay -- Adventures in Videoblogging Yahoo! Gro

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-24 Thread Pete Prodoehl
Ted Tagami wrote: > wait...I thought FireAnt was NOT tv? ;) FireAnt Ain't Not TV... tv... Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from th

Re: [videoblogging] New FireAnt

2006-01-24 Thread Ted Tagami
wait...I thought FireAnt was NOT tv? ;) Just ribbing you. Great to see the launch. I've been waiting since MacWorld to talk about it!On 1/24/06, Jay dedman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not believe in spam in this group, but all cool projects deserve a shout out. the last couple months..

Re: [videoblogging] New FireANT for Windows! Get it while its hot!

2005-09-06 Thread Randolfe Wicker
I only wonder when those guys at FireANT sleep.  Seems like they have a new version of FireANT every 36 hours!  It only gets better and better.   I notice that they are accepting "contributions".  I think supporting people like those creating FireANT and also doing the Node101 vlog crusade