Hul'q'mi'num' site: more tweaks and bugfixes
Posted by mholmes on 23 Sep 2008 in Activity log
Met with SK, TH and TK to review progress on the site, and did some testing. Found and fixed some issues with missing files, and also:
- We discovered a problem with audio-heavy pages; after generating and using about 14 or 15 players, the page would refuse to produce any more. Also, when returning to a page with the back button, all players previously used would reappear and play, all at once. I fixed this by editing the JavaScript, such that when a new player is created, the old one is destroyed; and when leaving the page, the final player is also destroyed. This seems to work a treat.
- Rebuilt all the index pages without the section index button.
- Made a plan for a change to the main Index page, so that it the contents would move to the left, and an introductory audio clip will be presented on the right. Below it will be a link to the Audio Settings page, with a note to click on it if the audio doesn't work. This is a simple way to get people to test and set up their audio early in the process.
- Checked out the preferences page which says Safari doesn't support stylesheet disabling. This still appears to be true (although Opera now does support it, so I've enabled that page code for Opera). Quirksmode says Safari does support it, though, so there's room for more research here.
- Moved the site to the new location on lang04/hulq, and created the hrd link to it as hrd/hulq. We also removed the old lancenrd/salish site and put a redirect page in the root of it.