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Originally Posted by The Lucas
Before I get to a criticism of your appeal, let me first praise your great work on the website. It is worthy successor to SOAP Gameday. The movable and sizable windows within the page are truly impressive coding.
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Thank you, however it's not very impressive coding - I used jQuery UI
(mind you even without it there's just a bit of DOM magic involved to do so).
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Originally Posted by The Lucas
I hope everyone uses your chat, because a centralized chat is much better than everyone in different regional chats.
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It's been quite active, some good discussion especially for regionals without ustream.
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Originally Posted by The Lucas
You hit the nail right on the head, plugins are the problem. However, while the WMP plugin may be the worst, flash plugin isn't perfect either.
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Fully agreed, however two geeks can argue night and day about HTML5 vs Flash or in this case WMP vs. Flash but in my opinion this page was not just for the more technical among us (see: CD community) but
for the general public. Flash is a much more adopted plugin.
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Originally Posted by The Lucas
That brings me to my point: a web browser is not the optimal solution to streaming video from multiple sources, since it has significant overhead (plugins).
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Disagreed. Web browsers are making their way in the desktop world. While plugins are certainly an overhead, not a large one.
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Originally Posted by The Lucas
Ustream is free (nice), but the ads are very annoying. The ones across the bottom obscure the score and are a hassle to keep closing (particularly on multiple ustreams across 2 laptops). The ads that play fullscreen interrupt matches and play at full sound even when you previously muted that stream (so they disrupt the audio to the regional you were listening to).
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Entirely agreed here, however I would prefer this if it allows to be viewed on any platform in a browser.
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Originally Posted by The Lucas
Other solutions like 987's flash (archive working for San Diego), provide benefits like instant archiving and ranking updates.
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Awesome (and good job to #987). Alternative view for those who don't want a very large Flash window?
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Originally Posted by The Lucas
So here is the constructive part of my criticism. I suggest you keep your windows for the MMS feeds but encourage your visitors not to use them.
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I am working on more functional windows that will allow you to easily switch between feed types (live drop-down to switch between MMS/ustream/HTML5 solution/etc, and with static links to streams).
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Originally Posted by HarveyAce
however, I know of a great deal of peole who cannot get the pluggins, and not everyone can get VLC (myself included.)
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This is my main issue, over a Ubuntu and Windows 7 laptop, and an iMac running OS X 10.6 with Chrome/FF/Safari (and a Windows VM) the only platform that worked optimally was Safari on OS X and IE in the Windows VM and laptop host.