SITE REVIEW: Before-Reality.net [updated 2/2/04 22:15]

That looks pretty sweet. You said the clock would be keeping track of time though?

of course, but those are all just images right now.

I have a bit of a demo page up, the clock is working, except some of my images are doubled, and I am missing some, (thats what I get for talking on AIM and doing that at the same time). So I have to go back through and figure out which ones are missing. Let me know what you think!

http://bro.acgcny.com/concept/contest.php

I recommend that you preload all the images you are using for the clock. The reason I say that is for the first minute that the clock is ticking every second the browser loads a new image, which cause the hourglass on the mouse to show up. It also cause the text on the bottom to show up to say what image it is downloading. Kind of tacky. Anyway if you preload all the images you need for the clock when the page loads you shouldn't have that problem. You might have to research how to preload images using JavaScript if you do not know how.

They didn't preload for you :-/

It didn't preload for me either..rats what did I do wrong!?

This is what I have to write the preloaded (no way I was going to do it by hand)



//Do I have to write it out inorder for it to work?

I figured it out as I was writing hopefully, I was refencing the trimed filename (less the imporant */*/ and .gif) in my php script, hopefully it works better now! (darn host is slow again.)
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ARG! I was actually wrong about that, I was referencing the untrimmed version with the */*/ so it was actualy going to */*/*/*/*.gif

You have to preload the images with JavaScript. You cannot do it with PHP because PHP is not running on the client. JavaScript is, and that is what you are using to make your clock tick and to call the images each second.

Heh I think I have it working now, I wrote that bit so I wouldn't have to write out the script for 60 images.

damn, that's pretty good!

I'm not a fan of Javascript, but that's some nifty work!

thanks a lot, next step will be the php for setting/stopping the alarm!

If you all could please take a look here:
http://bro.acgcny.com/concept/contest.php

I was wondering what you all thought of the importance of the seconds hand (please vote above!).

The reason I ask, is because in order for there to be a seconds hand, it needs to preload 72 .5kb images before the pages starts. I know that 36kb isn't a lot for a normal image, but having to parse 146 lines of javascript before the page loads takes very long for 36kb (page loads in about 5-10 seconds on a cable modem).

So basically here is the rundown:
With Seconds:
5-10 second load
146 lines of JS need to be parsed
Better clock
http://bro.acgcny.com/concept/contest.php

Without Seconds:
>2 seconds to load
No preloading JS
Kinda boring clock
http://bro.acgcny.com/concept/contest2.php

So let me know what you think, if 5-10 seconds works, I'd like to keep it there, but if it is too long, let me know.

looks like the server is fast enough to pass out the images... but if you were to get a lot more graphics or content on there, it might be better to go without the seconds hand... I also noticed it's something that can be cached, but it still has to make the requests for it on every page to check if it's updated.

yeah once I added a link in there the second page loaded a lot faster. I'll see if it gets boggy later down the road, for now it will stay though!

im digging the mouse over, i like the colors and creativity with tables, i checked your coding out, at 1st i thought it was an iframe, very nice usage of javascript

Meh


Nego ~ The Linux Supervilen

meh?