New Afl Site

[peterh_oz]

Originally posted by ROK Lobster
I am, and it is bloody annoying.

Can someone answer me this - do you need to be a bigpond user to get the video, or am I just not doing something right?

I assume you do - u had to on the old site didn't u?

[ROK Lobster]

don't know PH

[j s]

Originally posted by peterh_oz
Are you on 800x600 resolution though?

Nah! 1280 x 1024

[peterh_oz]

Originally posted by j s
Nah! 1280 x 1024

That would be why it works for you. Most net users are 800x600.

[ScottH]

1400 x 1050

[BonBon]

You can change your resolution on your computer.

[peterh_oz]

Originally posted by BonBon
You can change your resolution on your computer.

You shouldn't have to change resolution to read 1 web site. Most websites are designed for 800x600 - that's the "standard". Obviously AFL/Telstra don't realise that.

[BonBon]

Then you ask yourself: Do you go on AFL.com.au more often than you do other stuff?

[Hilly]

Originally posted by peterh_oz
First impression ... Not happy. Too wide for a 800x600 (standard) screen. I hate horizontal scrolling!

yes good point that @@@@s me aswell.

[peterh_oz]

Originally posted by BonBon
Then you ask yourself: Do you go on AFL.com.au more often than you do other stuff?

Nope. Therefore I don't want to change. Nor do I want to squint at everything else I do.

Bloody Tel$tra. The quicker I get VOIP the better! I know its not quite related but Tel$tra run the website.

[j s]

Originally posted by peterh_oz
You shouldn't have to change resolution to read 1 web site. Most websites are designed for 800x600 - that's the "standard". Obviously AFL/Telstra don't realise that.

"Standards" change Peter. Technically 640 * 480 (14" screen) is the "official "vga standard but some 4-5 years ago 800 * 600 (15" screens) became dominant.

Right now 1024 * 768 (17" CRT and 15" LCD) screens are the most commonly sold and within a year or two this size will be considered "standard". It's almost impossible to buy a 15" screen now.

I agree though that Telstra is premature in their adoption of this. They should have done what the SMH did and used different CSS style sheets depending on the window size used. This is recommended web design practice. Hopefully this might still occur

I also agree that horizontal scroll bars are bad in all but a very few instances (panoramic landscapes one obvious case)

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by j s
I agree though that Telstra is premature in their adoption of this. They should have done what the SMH did and used different CSS style sheets depending on the window size used. This is recommended web design practice.

Really though j s, with Telstra's track-record on web networks and general internet infrastructure, that's expecting just a wee bit much don't you think?

[j s]

Originally posted by Mike_B
Really though j s, with Telstra's track-record on web networks and general internet infrastructure, that's expecting just a wee bit much don't you think?

Probably!

Ever since Telstra took over about theonly thing I use the AFL site for is live scores and audio. Their news is always out-of-date or scrubbed clean of any interest

[ScottH]

Originally posted by peterh_oz
You shouldn't have to change resolution to read 1 web site. Most websites are designed for 800x600 - that's the "standard". Obviously AFL/Telstra don't realise that.

That is true! There are a lot ways of building a web site to suit different resolutions. Maybe they didn't take it into account, coz 800x600 is so 90's.

[Destructive]

I don't like it.