Re: Specify loading order of JPGs?

Chris Tomlinson schrieb:
"mbstevens" <NOXwebmasterX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:pan.2006.07.06.16.43.15.867369@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:49:13 +0000, Spartanicus wrote:

http://www.superhighstreet.com/George-Street-Richmond/

What you see is actually a series of JPGs sliced in divs.
I saw no such thing, I did see a "Please click here to view this page
correctly" at the top of the page, I didn't bother clicking the link.
I did click around for a bit. There is a truck load of javascript trying
to do a job that could be done more clearly with straight (X)HTML and CSS,

Thanks for the feedback. What JS are you referring to? The bulk of the JS is the Google Maps tracking, which I assure you cannot be done with HTML & CSS.

and maybe a little server side scripting. It keeps zooming to places I
didn't intend, popping up new windows with even stranger code behind them.

Can you elaborate on where it 'zoomed' to? I assume you mean enlarge/magnify?

What strange windows popped up? All that pops up are the web sites of the shops you click on, which is the entire point of the site. It offers online shopping from a real high street. If these windows are frustrating, can you say how better to take a user to a shop's site without losing the street, street position, etc?

I found 6 externel JavaScript on this Site: 3 from maps.google.com, 2 from www.assoc-amazon.co.uk and one from pageat2.googlesyndication.com.
And there are at least 9 <script>-Tags in your main sitte and another one in the iframe.

There is a slide show running and controls to kill right clicks.

That's right, there is a slideshow. The idea is to bring the user to the street, and give them the sights and sounds.

When I scrolled or clicked the site before all your multimedia was loaded my browser crashed (only Firefox, works on IE). So actually I was brought nowhere...

Without the slideshow, they just get a static 2D view.

And now it is 3D? I personally think that websites with sound are one of the most cruel crimes you can commit. Not only the loading-time, it's just annoying. And imagine someone listens to music while visiting your site...

We appreciate this is not what you are used to from ordinary web sites, but nothing was ever achieved by not trying to break molds, and as I said, broadband is only becoming more common.

Your site still needs a lot of time to load with broadband connections. (especially the sound)

Controls to kill the right clicks? One control, and it is for copyright reasons and only on the streetscape - you can right click anywhere else.

I just have to switch off JavaScript and - bingo, i can right click on the images...

Unbelievably awful and unusable.

Thanks for the constructive criticism. We appreciate it is hard for web designers to see sites the same way a member of the public would.

"...getting nothing but praise from
our visitors." Erm, not this visitor.

And not this one, too.

Maybe if I had an afternoon to overcome the required learning curve.

Can we ask what you found so difficult to learn, as this will help us refine the instructions above the street. The basic principle is 'drag the street to walk left and right', and 'click on doors or window posters to shop there'. We are having trouble understanding how this would need an afternoon to learn.

Oh, there is one thing that you learn very quickly: Do not visit this site again!

I'd make it usable and accessible before worrying about order of image
load.

With your continued feedback on the above, we certainly hope to.

BTW: have you ever tried to validate the site?

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superhighstreet.com%2FGeorge-Street-Richmond%2F

Cruel! The most serious mistakes:
-No doctype
-2 <html>-Tags
-Many attributes with no values (for example <meta name="..." content>
-Attributes used on tags which doesn't have them (for example <iframe .... target="_blank" >
-Attributes used which doesn't even exist

I wonder what program creates such wasted code... Even FrontPage can do it better I think... Or was it FrontPage?
.

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