another little test please !

[markmarkymark]

Greetings all

I thought I would try this test at this time of night so I do not blow my PC up. Could anyone thats around go here please:

E-Learning

Look for 'example demonstration lesson'

Then 'The Alpha Particle' - do not worry about the content. I am interested to know...

1) Does it load OK
2) does the media work
3) Is is usable (from a network point of view).

The content server is running off my home PC

The media is being piped from the US....

I am looking for options for increasing upload bandwidth but would be interested to know how this performs as it is so far

thanks

Mark

p.s. If its dead then sorry, I am expecting a crash I think,,,

[Richard M]

When I go to start a test in Mozilla, I only get a blank page with some navigation controls at the bottom.
Page load time is ok.

[Nikko]

Works fine from here - or at least one of the demo's loaded up

[Chris W]

I am getting the same as Richard M using firefox 0.9

[markmarkymark]

k thanks so far ... damm just tried netscape 7 and see what you mean. I was supposed to be testing connectivity performance, alas other problems ...

problems...problems ....problems...

[Richard M]

If it's any consolation, the rest of the site looks ok.

[carlingman]

Works fine from here on IE6 with Pipex ADSL.

Well i say fine media content etc is fine but the page drops down slightly into my taskbar and have to resize the IE Window but other than that ok.

[markmarkymark]

thanks all...

I have 18 users on the server just now - average upload from the content server (NTL BB) 64 kBits / s , average upload from US media server 500 kBits a second ....

I am trying to see if I can get the content server bandwidth down by pulling all the difficult stuff from elsewhere ......

[danielf]

Seems to work ok on IE6 here, though the quality of the media looks quite poor. The smaller fonts bleed and are very difficult to read. If this is consultancy (as the site suggests), I think you want to increase the resolution on the media.

Edit: unless you're just testing obviously

[markmarkymark]

Originally Posted by carlingman

page drops down slightly into my taskbar and have to resize the IE Window but other than that ok.

many thanks - thats my mistake, I can sort that on next release - the non netscape etc problem is the first on the agenda,,,,

[Richard M]

Originally Posted by markmarkymark

many thanks - thats my mistake, I can sort that on next release - the non netscape etc problem is the first on the agenda,,,,

Netscape is Mozilla.
Or rather: Mozilla is the codebase for Netscape and Firefox.
Get it working in any one of those browsers and it'll work in the other two (and Camino for Mac).

Originally Posted by danielf

Seems to work ok on IE6 here, though the quality of the media looks quite poor. The smaller fonts bleed and are very difficult to read. If this is consultancy (as the site suggests), I think you want to increase the resolution on the media.

Yeah, you need to turn down the compression level a bit to around 70% or less.
Or just don't use MS Paint for your jpg files.

[markmarkymark]

Originally Posted by danielf

though the quality of the media looks quite poor. .

thanks, agree. The video is actually a low bandwith test I did some time ago - its quite wrong as I am using the wrong colours (e.g. red on blue). This is all a test so far so its not released to clients or anything like that ...

MArk

[markmarkymark]

sigh ..this current version will not support 'Mozilla' due to certain IE specific calls ... will be corrected in the future I hope

As a complete it all seems to work apart from the Radiation Protection Advisor link (the page cannot be found) or the video The Alpha Particle which loads with error on page.

Everything else is ok on my PC with IE and a resolution of 1280x1024 except for the huuuuuge white space over to the left all 6 inches of it.

Being female I'm NOT prone to exaggeration about size either.

Incog.