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Too bad you can't have those up all year 'round.
To be honest, I think the
Ikkitousen animations in your headers are better than in the actual show...
Posted by: Wonderduck at March 31, 2010 02:50 PM (mfPs/)
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Aiee! I moved over a hotspot before I read your post.
Next thing you'll have an animated Chuck Norris pop out of the screen whenever someone types "You need to watch..." or "Why don't you..."
Posted by: Ben at March 31, 2010 03:16 PM (7/zoI)
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I didn't realize until I posted it that it would treat the center of the area as a rollover hotspot. I thought only the corners would do that.
Wonderduck, it's not impossible. But they'd be a lot more work to prepare, and so there's no way I could reasonably have hundreds of them.
It's possible for an SWF to load another SWF and run it. I haven't learned how to do that yet, but I suppose I could. So the page would load a master SWF which would randomly choose another to load and display. As I got around to creating new ones, I would update the master with the list of file names.
The big problem with it would be, as I said, that the selection would necessarily be much smaller and I think that reader fatigue would be a problem.
(The other problem would be that it would abuse Pixy's hospitality by chewing lots of bandwidth.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 31, 2010 04:44 PM (+rSRq)
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To be honest, I think the Ikkitousen animations in your headers are better than in the actual show...
I'm running them faster. Mostly they're running 15 frames per second. In the actual show the frame rate is anything from 5-10 fps. (Yeah, the underlying frame rate is 24 fps, but they don't swap images on every frame time.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 31, 2010 04:45 PM (+rSRq)
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Also I need to learn how to turn a sequence of still frames into an FLV. That would decrease the size considerably.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at March 31, 2010 07:16 PM (+rSRq)
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Well, if you're concerned about bandwidth, you could always switch your top rotation image/flash to an ascii version like Youtube's done. They claim it saves them $1 per second... Genius! ;-)
Posted by: EYanyo at April 01, 2010 12:06 AM (wZCd9)
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Are the images supposed to be animate? (I suspect so based on comments.) I'm not seeing them animate in either Firefox or MSIE.
Posted by: Tom Tjarks at April 01, 2010 10:09 AM (GJA7G)
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Nevermind. I'm not patient enough
Posted by: Tom Tjarks at April 01, 2010 10:09 AM (GJA7G)
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If you don't do anything, it runs the animation after 15 seconds of idle time. If you click the upper left corner it runs the animation about every two seconds.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 01, 2010 10:53 AM (+rSRq)
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I'm organising a metric ton of new bandwidth to arrive this month, so that part won't be a problem.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 01, 2010 11:34 AM (PiXy!)
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