--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Cheryl Colan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We knew about this already from our testing phase. It is caused by
the new
> "offer embed code" feature of vPIP - specifically by whatever CSS styles
> come with it by default. Without adding the "share" embed code, the page
> displays fine in IE6. With it, the layout is broken in IE6. I believe it
> looked fine in IE7 with WindowsXP running in Parallels on my Mac. I
don't
> have access to Vista so that's an unknown.


I know what you mean, Cheryl... in general... not particularly
pertaining to Show-In-A-Box.  I was planning to blog about this after
the flash/h.264 hooplah, but didn't have time to with my myriad
simultaneous projects.

>From when I first started out with blogger, I was testing my sites on
four browsers on two machines.  Mac Firefox, Mac Safari, Windows
Firefox, Windows Internet Explorer.  I had both monitors next to each
other and would keep tweaking until I got something that worked with
all four.  Eventually, I bailed on Internet Explorer, because the
other three generally worked all at the same time, and my extra time
was being spent formatting for IE.

Same thing with codecs.  I started out wanting to make AVI and MP4 and
Flash to make sure that whomever came to the site could definitely see
the videos.  I ended up bailing on AVI and Flash because of quality
and frame rate issues.  The only reason I'm involved with Flash at all
at this point is that blip.tv automatically transcodes my MOVs into
Flash when I upload them.  The only reason I'm involved with ogg at
this point is that Jay & Ryanne keep bringing it up, so I may as well
encode to that format as well.  If it weren't for Show-In-A-Box, I'd
just post MOVs, and let anyone else "eat cake". :D

--
billcammack
http://realfans.tv



> The vPIP release that includes "offer embed code" came out right
before we
> were set to relaunch and there was a last minute scramble to add it
because
> we wanted that embed code. Before going live, Ryanne and I talked
about what
> to do - whether to go live with the design flaw, or leave the "offer
embed
> code" feature off the site until more testing could be done, and her
> decision was to include the "offer embed code" feature despite the
problem
> with IE6. We're continuing to pursue a solution.
> 
> I initially found that turning vPIP's "offer embed code" styling off
looked
> a lot worse than leaving it on. It became an unstyled table that
pushed well
> outside the main content column into the sidebar area (overlapping the
> content there). I was unable to restyle it with my own CSS. But that's
> because we were under deadline to get the new site in place. Now that's
> done, there will be time to poke the CSS until it's beaten into
submission.
> And good thing about that is I'll be able to document how to style
it once
> we figure it out!
> 
> Great feedback, Bill. Site stats say there are still a significant
number of
> visitors coming in on IE6, so we do need to address this as soon as
> possible.
> 
> I should chronicle the whole redesign process. We ran into Safari
weirdness,
> too. When I finally got it working in all my test browsers I felt like a
> freaking hero. Then it broke when we updated vPIP - and I just about
cried.
> Sigh.
> 
> Cheryl Colan
> -- 
> I vlog: hummingcrow.com
> I make: whatwefound.blogspot.com
> I teach: node101phoenix.org
> 
> On 9/4/07, Jay dedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/4/07, Bill Streeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Just a slight bug report on this. I just looked at it in IE for
> > >  Windows and the side bars are stacked on top of each other instead
> > >  of side by side and some of their content is underneath the
posts at
> > >  the bottom of the page. I know IE is a pain in the ass when it
comes
> > >  to CSS as I am having my own problems with it on my site. I wish I
> > >  could just ignore IE but unfortunately they're still a major player
> > >  in the browser arena.
> >
> > thanks for the catch.
> > what version of IE?
> > Mac/PC?
> >
> > you can email me offline.
> >
> > jay
> >
> > --
> > http://jaydedman.com
> > 917 371 6790
> >
> > **check out the new look: ryanishungry.com**
> >
> 
> 
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