Reg Shaw's posts, page 5

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.

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.

BBC News Radar: http://radar.journalismlabs.com/radar-0.1/
Link from blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/02/bbc_news_radar.html

BBC News Radar: http://radar.journalismlabs.com/radar-0.1/
Link from blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/02/bbc_news_radar.html

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.