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Links 2.0 & WebTV users crashing
I installed 2.0 a few days ago.. and all went well... or so I thought... within 24 hours I started recieving mass email from my site visitors saying my site was 'crashing' their WebTV 'computer'.

These visitors claim that the page opens okay.. but they are unable to click on any of links without crashing their system.

I am wondering if anyone else is experiencing this problem, and if it is related to the style sheets or to the links engine.

Comments / Suggestions?


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Don't mean to be rude. I don't know who with the right mind uses WebTV, another junk from Microsoft. A webmaster has to design a site for that with a whole new set of specs. As if, there is not enough problems complying with rest of the browsers.

I hope these idiots agree and comply to some standards soon.
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Tender,

Are you using style sheets with your site? If so, that may be what is causing the problem. I don't use the style sheets and WebTV users have no problems on my site at all, although I am not sure that is why.
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I was using Style sheets. My guess is that their web browsers are not compatible with them (or the HTML 4.0 std).

I just converted all the HTML w/o using the style sheets... now it's a waiting game to see if that fixes the problem.

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The OLD Version can DO MANY THINGS!!!!!

i DONT LIKE THE NEW ONE... TO HASSLE AND LOTS OF THING!... IF YOU TRY TO MODIFY V2.0.... TROUBLE TROUBLE AND TROUBLE... I HAVE BOTH VERSIONS , I MODIFY V2.0 BUT TOOK ME FOREVER.. SO I DECIDED TO USE VERSION 1.1 GREAT!!!!!!

UHMM....

I DONT LIKE VERSION 2...

BIGGGGGGGG FONTS AND STUFF.

http://www.trisoft.net/cgi-bin/search

ChECk mine OUT!
NOT OFFICIal YET , just testing!
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Hi Tender,

Check out:

http://developer.webtv.net

for some pretty decent docs as well as an emulator so you can see what your pages look like on a webtv. Let me know if it's a problem with Links. =)

Cheers,

Alex
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Hi

In the CSS 2 spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/media.html) there is the the ability to have different style sheets for different devices - i.e. a different style sheet for TV (bigger fonts, diferent colours etc)... however I'm not aware that any WebTV device supports this yet... hopefully the WebTV developers will at some point soon.

BTW it's fairly easy to set small fonts for everything using the style sheet, you can use font-size: small, x-small or even xx-small or set everything using point sizes (though this has some disavantages) or use em's (breaks msie3 though as it thinks the em's are pt's).


Chris

[This message has been edited by Chris Croome (edited March 11, 1999).]
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Tender,

I use style sheets extensively on my site (main part as well as Links section) and no WebTV user has complained yet.
(There are quite a few as I see from the logs).

C.
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Hello!

Hope this helps!

<script>
if (navigator.appName.indexOf("WebTV") != -1){
alert("You are going to be redirected to a page optimized for WebTV users.");
window.location = "http://url-of-page-for-webtv/"
}
</script>


I also found some interesting URLs

For the background clours that suits WebTV :

developer.webtv.net/design/tools/colorpick/backchoose.html

For the text clours that suits WebTV :

developer.webtv.net/design/tools/colorpick/textchoose.html





[This message has been edited by rajani (edited March 13, 1999).]
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My aunt has Web TV and tested my site for me with no problems at all. I use CSS as an enhancement only...otherwise I redesigned everything with regular HTML (tables, etc.) so non CSS browsers will see substantially the same thing. That may make all the difference.

Still, if your visitors are able to view the page OK and only crash when they click a link, I don't see how the CSS can be the problem. Wouldn't it just crash as soon as they opened the page? When you say links...do you mean any link, including your internal pages (new, cool, etc.), or just the offsite links? An interesting problem....
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Think the problem was with the style sheets.. While WebTv claimed to be compliant with the codes being used in the style sheets(didn't say that they would display correctly.. but that it wouldn't crash there system if used) I couldn't get a workable style sheet that WebTV users didn't crash with.

So... I converted the style sheets to basic HTML using tables and seems to have solved the problem.

Still have a slight problem with the 'new' and 'pop' txt on category listing not displaying colors, but can live with that. Smile



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