OFF: RE: HW: Mission Control: New Orders

[Tom Clark]

For what it's worth...I think it's a kewl web site, Rik.   Keep it up!!!
It's amazing how some people can get anal retentive about shit.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Rik Rx" <hw at CY-B.ORG>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: OFF: RE: HW: Mission Control: New Orders


> "Guido N. Vacano" <nycademon at HOME.COM> Wrote:
>
> >"Your lectures must really be something. Let's see. "Class, for maximum
> >effect, use lots of pointless JavaScript (you know, the kind that doesn't
> >really serve any useful function), use purple and yellow text on a starry
> >background, "beam" the text in a la Star Trek Transporter. Make sure your
> >site's "live" while you're implementing "better navigation" so that
people
> >can get completely lost and will have to make extensive use of the handy
> >dandy "back" button to get back to (one of two) "home" pages, and most
> >importantly, protect your kewl code with a cute javascript that gives you
> >an "Authorized Hawkwind Personnel Access Only!" popup when someone right
> >clicks on the page to view the code.
>
> Ahhh, you seem to be under the misapprehension that the approach to the
> Official HW site should be the same as that of a corporate or business
site.
> Of course it isn't. Hawkwind have always been about stimulation by visual
> media, at least in the 30+ years I have experienced them. Perhaps you
missed
> that little point. Of course, we could always make a sans-serif black text
> on a white background site for the chromatologically challenged, but I
think
> that really would be missing the point....... As we said, there *WILL* be
a
> printer-freindly extension to most key pages, with a gateway option from
the
> new sitemap.
>
> I have no idea what the following means:
> (yes - it is complicated isn't it !)
>
> >The click disable was simply put there to force people to use the page's
> >own navigation,<<SNIP>>
> >People navigate via right click (which was what I was talking about)?
> Hmmmm?
>
> With reguard to the right click disable which you find so interestingly
> irritating, ....if you had visited the site before, you will know that the
> site usually runs in a remote console ('kiosk mode') which removes the
> normal navigation keys on 80% of browsers, and gives a larger stage for
the
> graphic content to avoid scrolling etc. Without the navigation bar, the
only
> navigation options are via the right click menu (windows) or apple click
> dropdown on Mac. However we wanted to guarantee visitors used our own
> navigation system, so we disabled the the click. If you still can't
> understand this basic concept please mail me privately and I'll go through
> it S L O W E R :-}
>
> >However, the existing site is, and has always been, a "javafest" by
> >intention to fit an exacting brief.
>
> >Exacting brief? Can't remember the last time I heard anyone say that.
What
> >the heck do you mean?
>
> Ahh... foiled by yet another complicated technical term eh? This refers to
> the detailed specifications for the site design given to me by the band.
>
> >Hmmmm. . . . Well, you know what they say. Something to the effect of
> >"Those who can do. Those who can't teach" --Henry Louis Mencken.
>
> So you teach too eh? - Rik
>
> >Guido
>
> >P.S. My apologies to the list, this is my last post to the list on the
> >subject.
>
> Yeah - me too! I got some seriously pointless JavaScript to write ! :-}
>
> Oh ya - by the way, I wouldn't have taken offence at your original post if
> it were merely constructive critisizm. I do believe that without such
useful
> feedback, none of us can learn, grow, and develop. Including a pointed
> reference to a third rate book on web design, however, smacked seriously
of
> taking the piss!!!!
>
> Rx
>