[TBA]: Kickoff 2009 Liveblogging Site Development

[Ctrl Alt Delete]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Now defaults to 2 column layout with option for 3 column layout.

Twitter updates added. Twitter and Flickr modules auto-refresh every two minutes.

I am not sure how to best address all of the Windows Media problems that people are having. There isn't much I can do about browser plugins, and NASA doesn't offer a Flash Video stream as far as I can tell, which would be the most cross-browser-compatible.

You can probably do a little detection script and link to Flip4Mac for OS X streaming.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

[synth3tk]

Slight suggestion, then. Can those buttons under the video be used to change the stream within the box, instead of linking to the media directly?

I don't know how feasible that is within 4 days, but that would basically solve the issue, as one of those protocols are sure to work on someone's computers.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Slight suggestion, then. Can those buttons under the video be used to change the stream within the box, instead of linking to the media directly?

I'll investigate alternative media players, but it might be BYO because plugins are weird.

I've taken the site out of the /beta/ directory and put in in www.thebluealliance.net/kickoff09/, so we're basically almost entirely ready to rock.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Very nice, works well in Firefox 3.1 Beta for Mac with the exception of the flickr widget. In the top left corner there is a box that says yes and no which goes away as soon as I move the widget around, once moved the flickr widget works fine.

Tested in Safari 3.1.2 and it works there as well.

[Nate Smith]

FYI...guessing it's something with my setup, but the kickoff page crashes IE under the following config:
-Vista Home Premium SP2 Beta
-IE 7.0.6002.16497
-Media Player 11.0.6002.16497

Safari 3.1.2 for Windows also locks up when asking about the Media Player plugin...

[Greg Needel]

I can't get the hi-res stream from nasa to work in any media player.

[synth3tk]

Twitter error:

Warning: unlink(twitter.rss) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in /home/tba/public_html/kickoff09/module_twitter.php on line 7

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by synth3tk

Twitter error

Thanks, I think I've fixed it but I'll keep an eye out.

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

I can't get the hi-res stream from nasa to work in any media player.

I will check that the stream still exists, I just took the URLs from last year and assumed they didn't change.

It seems that the Windows Media Stream of NASA TV is giving everyone the most headaches. :-x. Maybe I can find a friendlier stream somewhere.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

Why would you lean away from Meebo? What aspects of it did you find don't work well?

We have been integrating meebo chatrooms for a few different websites and its been easy to handle. The one disadvantage is spambots surfing looking for meebo rooms and posting spam advertisements. I have not figured out how to hide meebo from spam bots.