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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

M@ posted:
It's not flash. It's not great either. Using the controls on the right hand side highlights the header image and the text on the ticker. Clicking elsewhere doesn't get rid of the highlight either until you navigate away from the page.


I stand corrected, it is indeed Java.

Should anyone care, there's a bit more info here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/03/news_ticker_most_shared_and_mo.html
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

M@ posted:
It's not flash. It's not great either. Using the controls on the right hand side highlights the header image and the text on the ticker. Clicking elsewhere doesn't get rid of the highlight either until you navigate away from the page.


I stand corrected, it is indeed Java.

Should anyone care, there's a bit more info here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/03/news_ticker_most_shared_and_mo.html
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

New ticker (flash based, apparently) has launched on the BBC News homepage.
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

New ticker (flash based, apparently) has launched on the BBC News homepage.
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk



An internal gadget that's been working for quite a few years which is now external - very handy!
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk



An internal gadget that's been working for quite a few years which is now external - very handy!
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

Hymagumba posted:
I wonder if it would be feasable for news to ditch their old CMS and move to something that appears (at least to us outsiders) to be more modern and pleasant such as world's topcat. Comparing those and the new english regions sites suggests that topcat is able to produce nicer looking pages, probs due to its greater CSS abilities than the table based news systems.


It would be easier to make the news CMS system work beyond tables Wink
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

Hymagumba posted:
I wonder if it would be feasable for news to ditch their old CMS and move to something that appears (at least to us outsiders) to be more modern and pleasant such as world's topcat. Comparing those and the new english regions sites suggests that topcat is able to produce nicer looking pages, probs due to its greater CSS abilities than the table based news systems.


It would be easier to make the news CMS system work beyond tables Wink
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Reg Shaw

New Red Dwarf at Easter

littlesmegger posted:
Well in my personal opinion it was still funny, as was VIII... perhaps not the strongest series no, but still funny. Takes all sorts of people to make a programme a success, and VII must've tickled enough funny bones to allow an 8th to appear. And the 8th has been appreciated enough to finally allow the specials to be born.

Perhaps this isn't you imparticular, but I do feel a lot of 'fans' just say the latter series weren't as good, just to blend in with the crowd. Laughing

I doubt the fanbase is ever going to fully agree with one another, but it just seems that most of the VII/VIII haters will never be as flexible minded as those who don't actually mind the last 2 outings.


I'm not going with any crowd - the last series was durge. Sorry.

And the reason the new specials are being born are nothing to do with the last two series - it's to do with the run as a whole.

Notice how Dave hardly ever repeats the last series... Take the hint.
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Reg Shaw

New Red Dwarf at Easter

littlesmegger posted:
It isn't technically a "comedy", it's a sitcom... which means it doesn't just cover comedy, it covers situations aswell. Series VII helped cover a lot of the background behind the show that previous series didn't cover. Plus it was an experimental ground for the technical side of the programme, which should be approved of really...

...next people will say VIII wasn't good enough, because Rimmer wasn't a hologram... they've said it over on Ganymede. How can that justify the quality of a series! They're even commenting on things like how Cat doesn't look "in character" for the 2 press images. Welcome to the world of the nit-picky sci-fi fan! Laughing


But the last season still wasn't funny! Situation COMEDY - it wasn't funny! Hear what I am saying!! Slick production means nothing on a situation COMEDY when you don't laugh ...
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Reg Shaw

New Red Dwarf at Easter

Mr-Stabby posted:
The look of the later series is brilliant as you say. Series 7 especially was so far ahead of its time. Single camera video looked really naff up until then, but Red Dwarf really kicked it up a notch. I think it looks better than Doctor Who does now! The brilliant lighting helped that. The only times it falters is when they use digital zoom, which they used a lot. On 1997 TVs with analogue reception you probably wouldn't have seen it, but on the DVDs it's really noticeable.


You can have all the fancy production, fantastic lighting and great ahead-of-their-time-better-than-Doctor-Who special fx - but what's bloody the point in a comedy show when it isn't funny?

Mutton dressed up as lamb.
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Reg Shaw

bbc.co.uk

Charlie Wells posted:
Hymagumba posted:
On a day when, remember WE ARE ALL TRAPPED IN OUR HOMES, can you imaigne the whinging of the old farts if they changed the weather site today?

They're already enraged and threatening to change their homepage (oooh) because they got rid of that useless search engine.

I see the weather graphics which did say "New look 2nd Feb" have reverted to "Try it now". I guess it's been delayed until better weather.


More like until the staff involved in the switch can get into work ...