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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:39:34 -0400
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Wirt;

It does not work in Netscape 7.2.  
In IE, after several minutes of downloading the images nothing further 
happens.  A black image on the left, on the right 3 arrows.  Even after 
clicking one of the arrows, nothing happens.

Olav.


Wirt Atmar wrote:

>If you have the time, I would appreciate you watching the test audio slide 
>show I've put together in the new "playerless" QCShow web-format. It is 
>designed to work with the three primary browsers, IE, FF, and Safari (it works 
>to a degree with Google Chrome, although it has an obvious pecadillo, which 
>you'll see if you run it there; it doesn't work at all with Opera due to bugs in 
>Opera's code, which have been reported).
>
>Based on your and others' previous comments, I've spent a fair amount of time 
>rewriting the code.
>
>This new audio slide show pushes the boundaries of what you can do using 
>HTML, CSS, DOM, and Javascript, and presents 69 high-resolution, large 
>images in 2.5 minutes, perfectly synchronized to a music score.
>
>One of the design criteria I want to maintain is that there should be no 
>preloading or buffering required before the presentation begins (presuming that 
>you have broadband). This presentation really pushes that requirement, and I 
>may have to put a preload subroutine in the code yet, but it's not a problem 
>for a standard PowerPoint lecture, where things move more slowly.
>
>The new presentation is at:
>
>     http://67.41.4.238/newtest/iya/iya.html
>
>I would greatly appreciate hearing of any difficulties that you might have.
>
>BTW, this presentation makes heavy use of image blends. Of the browsers, IE 
>is the slowest and does the least good job at this task. Safari is the fastest 
>and does a magnificient job when run on an Intel processor (either PC or Mac). 
>If you have the time, download Safari+Quicktime and watch the presentation 
>using that browser. Firefox lies in the performance middle.
>
>Wirt Atmar
>
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