Mock up of A-Eon website

@all

http://www.uploads.beaverpromotions.co.uk/x1000/index.html

How is this background everyone? Smexy or what?

Just a few background white/transpo problems to correct, but once I've done that I can pretty much drop any background in there.

@djrikki

I'm running 1024x768 and the site looks great

@djrikki

very nice looks brilliant on my MacPro 1080p mode :)

"For the largest selection of applications and games for AmigaOS, took a look on OS 4 Depot"

->

"For the largest selection of applications and games for AmigaOS4, take a look at OS 4 Depot.
And for Amiga like OSs in general, take a look at aminet.net"


Also, perhaps there should/could be also a page of SW compatibility. (take a look @ the list of Blitterwolf)

@djrikki
Scrolling the pages in OWB is now slow, because the background does not scroll with the text/pictures, so it has to redraw the whole page each time. (I wish that Internet Explorer (?) had not introduced this "feature" to HTML.)

@ChrisH

Oh well Timberwolf is just around the corner. My crystal ball says much less users will be running OWB once its released.

Hmmmm on second thoughts perhaps I could take advantage of browser detection to select an alternate .css style. What ID does OWB use to identify itself?

I'll look into this sometime and find out much work would be involved and if its easily possible.

@djrikki Quote:
I don't think it's an OWB issue, it is a *technical* issue, and so most likely will be the same on Timberwolf:

If the background DOES scroll along with the text/pictures, then the graphics card can just blit the page up/down a few pixels when you scroll.

On the other hand, if the background does NOT scroll with the text/pictures, then you have to re-draw the entire page each time it is "moved" a few pixels (since the background itself does not move). This makes scrolling become a hugely CPU intensive operation, which is not amenable to 2D hardware acceleration by the graphics card. (And this is why I lamented it's addition to HTML - when scrolling the background along with the picture already worked just fine & was very fast.)

@ChrisH

I am positive that 2-8 x draw issue in Timberwolf doesn't help any atm. Works okay in Mac FireFox, once the Frieden's have a stable non-alpha/beta release we'll be on a level playing field.

Yeah I use:

img#bg {
position:fixed; z-index:-1;
top:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
height:100%;
}

So it doesn't repeat when scrolling, its fixed in place. Probably not the best image to use anyway as its only 1024x728 so looks a bit ski-wiff on my widescreen display. But I do love the Curve design.

Changing the image is a simple matter of replacing (<img src="http://www.uploads.beaverpromotions.co.uk/x1000/backdrop.jpg" id="bg">) in the top body of every page or can be removed entirely.

Just another piece of constructive criticism, on the main page the following text is white:

Quote:

The background in that region is a very light red, so it's very difficult to read that text.

nice site, very professional

@all

Corrections for users running on 1028 x 768.

@djrikki

Looking good, aspect ratio seems a bit out on the background though. A showcase website for AmigaOS is definately needed.

@djrikki

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Not so sure, hopefully OWB development will continue despite TimberWolf. Personally I think it would have been more efficient for the Friedens to support OWB, maybe by working on missing areas like flash plugin, download manager. That way we could have one complete browser sooner rather than the current situation and the Friedans would maybe have more time to work on other projects.

@Daniel

Yes the backdrop image stretches on any resolution above 1024 x 768 and isn't ideal. I can't draw to save my life so feel free to post links of suitable replacements.

@Daniel

Quote:Implementing a download manger is trivial and only takes a few minutes, plugins are supported already (there are just none). If they'd port for example libgnashplugin.so to AmigaOS 4.x it would work in both Timberwolf and OWB - for displaying some annoying flash ads you could only block again in Timberwolf with Add-Ons like NoScript and Adblock plus but not in OWB
(For most other things gnash isn't good enough.)

Quote:That doesn't make any sense since they would have less time for other projects. Implementing a complete web browser, which would be comparable to browsers like Firefox or Opera, around OWB from scratch would be much more work than porting an existing web browser like Firefox is.

@joerg

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If I may be so bold: If it's so trivial, how come it hasn't been done yet?

Simon

@djrikki

Looking good.

TrevorD

@Rigo


+1


And i bet joerg can earn a couple of more $$ for taht. I'd give a couple of $$ for such a feature. So would others aswell.

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@Joerg
Only one feature which every aos4 user are miss for now (i mean really miss) - download manager. Please, add that. We all know that is not part of initial OWB, but we need normal download manager. For now, every download with OWB need to recheck, retest, refresh, wait for dunno what , and dunno how big size it. You can't pause it, can't resume (many times happenes that downloads halts, and you can't resume it).

Please, add it :) If you in interest , we can create a bounty, and collect some money for, if it will a bit motivate you.

@djrikki
A bit of critic: Imho, those "html-backgrounds" (when you have some picture at backgorund, and scroll whole page over it), looks a bit .. a bit too old and unmodern ? It's always remind me some free hosting with some page, which do someone who only first time detect that HTML can do static background. Imho plain, simply, and white background looks more "professional". But that is imho of course.

Also some pages on site are looks pretty good and more or less modern, but some are not. For example links on: news, amigaos, where to buy and all follow looks nice. But first two (index and amigaonex1000, looks a bit simply too and a bit too easy/simply.

Anyway, that sad, that you alone can make already better site, if compare with current A-EON one, which in reality looks bad and unprofessional :(

@Trevor
Maybe need create a bounty, for paing for normal web-designers who will make normal a-eon site ? (djrikki for example can be) :)