Category: <span>Development</span>

I’ve been doing more work on menus today. I’ve got the Mac-look for Macs working on my machine – that was easy… But I’m still having trouble figuring out how to get the menus to timeout on their own, and disappear, without having to click somewhere else in the browser window… I’ll get it yet, but it’s frustrating me at the moment.

Take a look at the job offerings Mac Publishing is making in their online department. Here’s a quote: “Candidate [for the Web Developer position] should have experience with Perl and/or any of the following: PHP, Web Objects, JSP, JavaScript, HTML.” No mention of Frontier at all, even though that’s their primary CMS, and it also runs their search engine.

“A regular consumer wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between a legitimate DVD movie and one compressed using the new scheme, which is called DivX… What’s more, a DivX-compressed movie is about 400 times smaller than its DVD counterpart, ranging from 600 to 750 megabytes.” I call ‘bullshit’. Firstly, what’s a “regular consumer”? Is that something like “regular” gasoline? Secondly, being someone who’s worked extensively with video compression technology, I’d have to say there’s almost no possibility of fitting a full-length feature film into 750MB, without serious quality degredation. 3Mb/sec is just about the minimum bitrate for NTSC quality video.