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aleksanteri 作 , # 2006/10/09 0:09:11

aleksanteri 作 , # 2006/10/01 12:25:18

All right, the widget's code is now valid and the bmps are replaced by PNGs

I've also been thinking about a preloading script but it doesn't seem to work. Perhaps I should convert the SVG files into PNGs with Batik/Squiggle and try it out then.

It's almost ready, I just need to the SVG/PNG comparasion and version checking and maybe a warning-like alert if the Internet connection isn't on, I've got a very nice way for that.

aleksanteri 作 , # 2006/09/30 7:49:16

Glad to hear that the suggestions I made are helping out. 8% on those image files is awful impressive but bmp files are known to be hugh, haha. Good luck and I'm looking forward to updates! Keep up the good widgeting!

kyleabaker 作 , # 2006/09/30 0:23:21

Oooh, I really didn't realize my code didn't validate! While in early development I validated it and it worked but when I got to the end of releasing I forgot to validate I quess I need to fall back to XHTML Transitional because I need the IFrame attributes

I tried out the PNGGauntlet, the files came only 8% of original Perhaps I should use it for the Calculator widget as well

And also version tracking might come in handy, as I left it out because I thought that I would release it all in one. But before that I ask you to keep coming back for updates... tho I will do the update soon

aleksanteri 作 , # 2006/09/29 18:49:50

I like the widget so far. Good idea. I will me using it a lot, but I notice the buttons jumping around a little when you do the follow...

Open the widget
Mouse over the text box
Then mouse over the Search button

...It looks like the code needs to be cleaned out a little. I did a quick validation and found 9 errors in the HTML file. I think correcting these will eliminate the buggy jumpy buttons. I see that this is an initial build (1.0), but I just wanted to suggest using PNGGauntlet from http://brh.numbera.com/software/pnggauntlet/ which will convert your image files to PNG which is a much more suggested format than bmp and this program will compress to the lowest possible png filesize. Just set it to save gamma and brute force compression. Small filesize widgets with validated code = faster and guaranteed to perform well.

Great work tho!

kyleabaker 作 , # 2006/09/28 5:43:04

Excellent, thanx.

Darken 作 , # 2006/09/27 21:09:40