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Originally Posted by Craig.
Hey, I contacted teletext a few months back asking them if there were any plans to bring their digital service to virginmedia and they simply replied with no.  I think that this is a shame as digital teletext is a good service which provides quick and easy access to useful information. |
Indeed. It's actually relatively easy - once you've got your head around the ancient cocktail of HTML 3.2, JavaScript 1.1 and the Liberate extensions - to create "applications" for the platform, which makes the lack of Teletext all the more disappointing. They have much more content, in certain areas, than BBC Red Button does (although I prefer the BBC's service for news and weather).
The lack of page numbers, on any of the interactive services on VM, interests me because it took me only about an hour of struggling (in part with case sensitivity and the API documentation) to come up with a way of doing 3 digit page numbers. Starting basically from scratch in terms of my knowledge of developing for the platform, it's taken me about two days to build a front page for a Teletext-type service.
I'd like to tackle a news headlines menu and a basic multi-screen text page next, then I'll probably move onto seeing what I can do for a Radio Times-style service. Hopefully the RT concept will let me be more creative in what gets put on the screen, as I'd like to use more graphics.
Sam
PS. I don't work in this area or anything, I just have an interest in it and like to consider myself as rather handy with Google. It keeps me occupied, I suppose...