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...was able to rebuild the interface to match the 'lamppost' style Inverloch is currently using.

I'm lacking ready access to anything except Linux and Mac OS/X so I can't really test IE support for this version unfortunately. I fully expect something to break horribly, since I'm following nothing but W3C standards so IE will have to screw up somewhere. :-)

Also, [livejournal.com profile] mira_fastfire, I added the next/back buttons near the bottom, and placeholder icons for single/double page layout and text links for the various languages. I think this addresses the concerns you'd raised previously about the approach I'd been taking for the interface? I hope? =^.^=

I am kinda proud of the approach I took for handling the 'scene names' lists as a side-node. Collapsing view-cropped tables is really useful when you have to only show an intersection between two items, in this case the chapter to show and the current language. The table is generated client-side since it's smaller to transmit the data and create the table after the fact than to transmit the table itself by quite a bit.

Only thing left to do is re-integrate the multi-lingual 'copyright text' at the bottom of the interface, and add all the Italian, German, and Polish chapter titles, and all the non-English scene titles if I can get them translated.

Edit: I'm a dumbass and forgot to provide a link to see the current progress: http://wolfwings.us/inverloch/comic.html

As usual, only the first two scenes of the first chapter actually work. =^.^=

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Date: 2006-10-03 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alexismckee.livejournal.com
*cough* who cares about IE support anyway *cough*

I don't for my own websites.

Date: 2006-10-03 09:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
But I do care about it for stuff that others are going to use in non-techie circles where IE still accounts for half or more of their web-browser statistics.

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Date: 2006-10-03 10:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] otana.livejournal.com
It's broken in Firefox from what I can see; there's code showing beneath the image, sticking out at the side. I can screencap if you need it.

Hrm...

Date: 2006-10-03 10:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
...try now? I left a 'visibility: collapse' tag off of the CSS by accident in the version so it was showing the table as it was built before trying to collapse everything afterwards.

Re: Hrm...

Date: 2006-10-03 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] otana.livejournal.com
Still there, here's a screenie (http://pics.livejournal.com/otana/pic/000by7pp).

Re: Hrm...

Date: 2006-10-03 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
Well... apparently there's an on-again, off-again bug with collapsing a column not working on FireFox. It works fine on my 1.5.0.6 install, I'll re-write it to use another approach. Only showing one row and one column of a table was the easiest way to handle multiple languages before, but apparently it just doesn't work well cross-browser. :-P

Changed the approach.

Date: 2006-10-03 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
Lemme know if it works now? =^.^=

Re: Changed the approach.

Date: 2006-10-03 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] otana.livejournal.com
Looks fine now.

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Date: 2006-10-03 02:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ssurgul.livejournal.com
Hate to be picky, but....

I'm using the latest FF. When I click on the 'Next' button after page 6 of the first chapter, the display screen stays blank. When I nav with the forward and back buttons, either the display screen shows nothing, or it shows the same page regardless. When I did the double page display, it cut each page in half to show them (might be expected behavior there, though, I suppose).

Hrm...

Date: 2006-10-03 08:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
...I can't reproduce the error you're describing. Sometimes the pages can take a moment to load, but the interface always keeps working even when it's attempting to load pages in the background.

Also, there aren't any pages after 9 on the 'demo site' I have up, so in case it's that (and not page 6 that's the breakpoint) I added a one-time-per-forced-page-reload warning the first time you try to view a page after 9.

Re: Hrm...

Date: 2006-10-03 08:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
Oh, and I figured out what you meant about forward/back not working. I'm... gah, that's a wierd obstacle. =-.-= I'll make another reply when I fix that bug, I hadn't noticed it before as bookmarking your current location had worked so I hadn't thought to try forward/back while navigating inside the interface. Gah. :-P
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
They work properly now. =^.^=

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Date: 2006-10-03 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mira-fastfire.livejournal.com
I'm getting a weird thing on the two-page option. Here's a screen-shot: Here! (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v97/MiraFastfire/forWolf.jpg)
From: [identity profile] wolfwings.livejournal.com
I hadn't tested it with a screen too narrow to fully display the widescreen mode to test if it properly 'forced' the screen wider. It didn't before, so it was 'failing' in a way to prevent horizontal scrollbars from showing up. I fixed it, so screens narrower than approximately 1280 should get scrollbars in double-page mode now. Could you check again? =^.^=
From: [identity profile] mira-fastfire.livejournal.com
Hee. I was looking at it at school, hence the smaller screen. But I can reproduce that effect thanks to the Web Developer extension...

It scrollbars. :) And it does so in 800x600 as well.

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