Tidy canvas-based teaser site for a new game dropping soon

ABabyAteMyDingo · 1 year

If you can make it to Brighton, this doesn't look bad for a tenner http://geekninjafactory.com/geek-ninja-battle-night-mobile-web-vs-native

Although for a microsite I'd say you almost always want a web app - easier to distribute, easier to push updates to, one central service to maintain.

If there's a specific reason why your users may want to frequently use the site, it may be worth breaking that bit of functionality out into an app. Any actions requiring complex functionality can be directed back to the site.

mojavestorm · 1 year

Are you a professional? If so, there's no reason you shouldn't just pay for a copy of windows and set up virtual machines - there's no better way and I wouldn't want to fob my clients off with sub-par testing (or have untested builds go live).

I use Virtualbox with several XP/Vista/Win7 installs but this can be a bit too resource hungry (especially when running dev virts, textmate and photoshop alongside).

The best way I've seen so far, and will be switching to once I get a break in contracts, is this setup described by snook.

kierand · 2 years

There will definitely be security issues with different domains. Check out Michael Mahemoff's 2008 article: Cross-Domain Communication with IFrames

You could pull the external markup in via Ajax (jQuery.load()) but will have to style it up yourself...

CyanPrime · 2 years

Design by committee is generally a bad thing.

thewalkindude · 2 years

try "man cat"

jqm0 · 2 years

Using a doctype that triggers Quirks Mode will leave you with the old box model - it still exists but has a switch.

fourstates · 2 years

Looks to me like #main and #side should be contained within #space but #side is being rendered outside #space.

I think you've got a spurious </div> in there.

StuartLeigh · 2 years

Do also read up on the performance implications of using @font-face.

It's a lovely thing....but is the world ready for it just yet?

dawnerd · 2 years

Django basic apps has a music app which probably does what you want (or can do with a bit of work).

Also, check out django masmedia - needs a bit of hammering to get into place.

daebat · 2 years

Sounds familiar...

Seems to me that praise from them isn't worth much - definitely a lot less than the paycheck; if that wasn't up to scratch then I'd be outta there!

daebat · 2 years

Obligatory.

To be honest, his praise would be fairly worthless given that he most likely doesn't understand what it is you actually do - only that you make the technical things happen. I'm sure that, if things went catastrophically wrong and you saved the day, you'd get a nice pat on the head...mind you it does sound like you should nudge the graphic designer to send some appreciation your way.

Peer review is much better than the lip service provided by most superiors - although if you're working alone on the project then you might have a bit of trouble with that.

Tyrun · 2 years

Why not run linux on a virtual machine and share folders for windows access? No dual-booting and you can code in the editor you choose while keeping a sane dev environment.

I've always got a virt running on my windows dev box so I've mapped share folders as network drives. I've been using this for Django sites mainly - with Rails YMMV...

ash5 · 2 years

Not sure if it will help with your new window requirement (wouldn't that be a HTML or JS problem?) but I've used flowplayer before and it ticks the other boxes.

winsmith · 2 years

Ah well, still a good project to get done and now you can compare your implementation with some others!

winsmith · 2 years

Very nice.

Any reason you didn't want to use sorl.thumbnail?

You should try and get it added to this list of Django 'thumbnailers': http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/ThumbNails

skittles15 · 2 years

Seconded. Django-pinax has tons of social networking goodies almost ready to go.

Plus you get to write in python :)

cag_ii · 2 years

Looking to be replaced with microdata in HTML5.

jqm0 · 2 years

I'm using a JQuery Autocomplete plugin on a project at the moment and it sounds like it'll do what you want.

You can create an array out of the options in your select to use as your datasource and there's also support for substrings, autofill, autoselect...

Edit: sp

jqm0 · 2 years

I think the difference is that these guys are working with the foundries to create some kind of usable copyright protection-usable for us and sufficiently protected for the foundries.

Personally I don't like the idea of relying on a 3rd party CDN to get my fonts but, as long as I can provide supported fallbacks, it'll have to do.

Surely, there are several dozen free, unrestricted fonts available that will fill this need without resorting to obfuscation

Mark Pilgrim wrote about this expressing his strong views.

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