|
|
Posted by Chris Tomlinson on 07/07/06 21:20
"jojo" <jojo.hafner@gmx.de> wrote in message
news:e8mfh9$vho$1@registered.motzarella.org...
> Yes, I understood. It's just very difficult to think like the people who
> would use this ;-)
Yep, and we're not asking you to so no worries. This thread was about the
subject line only, ta.
>> To answer your question 'why', tell us how else you could 'walk along'
>> 5th Avenue New York, and pop into Tiffany's, if you live in London.
>
> Hard to imagine, too, because I do not live in London..
It was an example. Geesh you guys are hard to talk with.
>> In fact you can literally put on your dressing gown and have breakfast,
>> at Tiffany's. We think this is pretty cool. Sorry you don't.
>
> I didn't say that it isn't cool. I just said that I cannot see any use
> of this.
Virtual tours as already stated. If you don't like the shopping, you might
be interested in visiting famous streets you may never get a chance to visit
in real life. It's as simple as that.
>>> > I personally do not believe this figure.
>>
>> That is okay, other reports say 60% in the markets we are targetting ;)
>
> Depends on the country...
Of course it does. We are launching in the UK first.
>> In a way but you have misunderstood -- the more work there is to do per
>> street, the less streets there will be to explore. What about the comic
>> shop districts in Tokyo, what about Paris, or Rodιo Drive.
>
> Just a question of preference. Maybe some people would prefer one real
> good simulated street than 20 bad ones...
Hey you may well prove to be right. I wouldn't say what we have done in the
unlaunched beta is a 'bad street'. That would be unfair. We are here to
simply reduce the loading time before launch.
>> The researched way is the quickest and most realistic. All it relies on
>> is increasingly common broadband connections. We are not going to spoil
>> it for those able to get broadband by designing it for dial-up.
>
> Yes, you said this before. As said above: it actually depends on the
> country if there are enough users with broadband.
Of course, that much goes without saying (twice).
>> Because people who prefer real high streets, but miss out on the web
>> deals, showed a desire to have photo-realistic streets that looked and
>> sounded exactly like those they knew or could never visit in real life.
>
> I think I have to accept your market research because I do not have any
> equivalent proof against it...
Fairy nuff.
>> And it's not just a shopping site, so for virtual tours do you want to go
>> to a computer-game like 5th Avenue, or the real thing? The answer is
>> pretty obvious. Even if it takes 15 seconds to load, or longer on
>> dial-up, it is quicker than flying to NY.
>
> You're right in this point, nothing to say against it.
Thanks, that is one of the main benefits to the site.
>> This group is the only negative feedback the idea gets, but we notice a
>> lot of people's ideas that are posted here get negative reactions. You
>> tell me why...
>
> I can just guess... Sometimes I get very negative or even unkind
> reactions to my posts, too. But only if they are not 100% correct...
We know the feeling ;)
> Perhaps it is the fact that people always think to know everything but
> do it wrong... I your term it would be the fact that you really have no
> idea about HTML or CSS, do you? But you use it and if someone tries to
> correct the (often really extremely wrong) code which FrontPage uses you
> just point out that it is a beta... Some kind of arogant, isn't it?
I don't do the programming myself so I couldn't comment. All I can do is
say it is just a beta, so we weren't inviting critiques of the coding at
this point. Anything you have to say about the coding is therefore moot as
we know it isn't right yet. People here seemed to be answering quesitons we
hadn't asked, and coming out looking superior as a result of pointing out
beta code wasn't perfect! Wow, amazing.
This thread was about "Specify loading order of JPGs?" and nothing more, so
anyone else that chose to pick holes elsewhere was not really very good at
listening. Of course it's a free forum so they're welcome to. We just keep
setting them right.
> I found the problem, it was a FF extension... "UnPlug". this extension
> searches the site for any multimedia content and provides links to
> download the source. And there is so much multimedia on your page that
> it needed quite a long time to analyze the code (and even longer because
> of your code (Tags not closed, more than one HTML-Tag, ... Yes, I know,
> it's beta.)
Thanks for looking into this. Would you say this is a common FF extension,
or probably not worth worrying over? What % of users would you say had
installed it, across the whole browser population?
What was the load speed with that extension paused?
By the way, it's an unlaunched beta ;)
> I do not really think the idea of the game was ever meant serious... I
> guess it was just a try to point out that such a project perhaps exceeds
> the possibilities of the Internet.
Not when it loads fine in 12 seconds on the slowest broadband :)
>>> > Of course you *can* do. all we are about to tell you is *please
>>> don't do*. > (or at least not this way)
>> A bit late for that, and it's not what we're here asking so let's agree
>> to disagree.
>
> I agree, a bit late. If you just had asked earlier...
This isn't meant as offence, but the site isn't targeted to the select group
of CSS, HTML, JS, etc. experts found in this one group. That is why we did
not ask earlier for feedback on the site, and have never asked in this
thread. We only asked "Specify loading order of JPGs?" :-S
>> As above - virtual tours and to attract the many people who hate shopping
>> sites but love high streets, or could never fly to other world famous
>> ones.
>
> Hey, I think I got your point. The site should not only provide the
> possibility to go shopping online but should also cover some touristic
> aspects. Now the sense of such website became clearer... ;-D
Thanks. We thought we had made this clear on the home page, however the
link we provided on this thread was direct to a sub-page, because we were
not inviting unsolicited reviews. Glad you get it :)
>>> > If you really get much visitors you can loose...
>>
>> I'm sure you know what you meant to type. :P
>
> My apologies. We don not have two words for many/much in German so I
> sometimes mix them up if I type quickly...
Where in Germany are you from? I was in Heerlen recently.
>> -- Thanks, Me
> And thanks to you, me.
--
Thanks,
Me
;)
[Back to original message]
|