Comments on: Rent My Flat in Feodosia website redesign up

By: elliott

elliott — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:58:11 +0000

Gotta just say, maybe i’m not viewing complicated sites with lots of Japanese kanji embedded in the script but i’ve never had any problems viewing any sites that I can recall in OS10. That said, i’ve never been a fan of windows-esque interfaces and have always preferred older directory-style interfaces such as OS9 and pre-Windows 98 (i think windows 95 was user-friendly but I’m struggling to remember more than a decade ago!) Those older style setups helped users understand the way the systems worked a lot better, meaning users could learn to work their way around certain problems should they arise. My biggest gripe with new setups such as OS10 and i’m guessing the new Vista is simply that users are forced to head down certain directions when dealing with certain files and they don’t have the flexibility to deal with problem files in other manners. Basically, you just get left with a “This is not a recognized Photoshop document”-type notice and you have to jump through numerous hoops to get around the prob. In the old days, in some instances you could just change the suffix! Will check out the Mixi sites…

By: symeg

symeg — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:32:08 +0000

Thanks for the comments.

elliot: Chooch is still using OS9 – she says she prefers it to OS10, so she has problems viewing a lot of sites. She also said that on Mixi there is an OS 9.0 group with about 1200 members, so there must be quite a few people in Japan still using OS 9.0. There are apparently also still people using Mac OS’s as old as Mac OS 7.6. So I quite agree with you.

bitshifter: Thanks for checking it out. I have been thinking about getting a windows box, but just to check the odd site doesn’t really seem worth it. Will have a play round and make some thumbnails – although I have to work with the images I have. Hope the move goes well! Looking forward to seeing some pix of you settled into the valley and chilling!

By: bitshifter

bitshifter — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 19:34:27 +0000

Works fine in IE 7.0. The only thing is the image thumbnails look a bit stretched. Some of the images have a different aspect ratio to the thumbnail size and browsers don’t do a great job of resizing images. You could make separate thumbnails but that’s a bit of a pain. No biggie.

We’re moving house today!

By: elliott

elliott — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:04:16 +0000

i’m with you on the flash. can be useful (museum sites seem to use it best), but often it is just clunky and slow. also, my office still uses Mac 9.0 or something ridiculous, which means any pages with excessive flash bits and bobs and java script is rendered unreadable. think of the poor man!