I may be gay, but I'm certainly not a cowboy

It all looks fine now. Very good!



The last reports I got from the West said you were having a "merry time" rounding up the little "doggies"

Unless I'm a gay cowboy...

Edited by Mr Creosote at 18:14 on September, 25th 2003

Tuss is a "he"?

Sorry, that post was directed at Tuss, posted when I didn't really understand what he was talking about

Not really. I was just saying that if it's hard-coded, you are limited to exactly three games. If you had some loop in place instead, you could add as many (or as few) comparable games as you'd want.

Mozilla 1.0.0

All are looking fine to me, with the exception of Dillo, which is - as usual - stricter about the html standard than I am. Can't blame it for that of course, and what's displayed looks good enough.

The screenshot I posted before is from Firebird. Here are the others I have installed.

Netscape 4.77

Both look fine in Firebird, and looked fine in Firebird before you found that problem (whatever it was). (I had looked earlier today, shortly after you posted "nobody remembers this, but...".)

Er... this looks... all wrong! Check the attachment, this is how it looks for me (and that's how it's supposed to look). May I know what browser you've used to produce this screenshot?

Edit: I found an error in the code which I fixed. Could you check again? And could you check if it occurs on the respective German page as well?

Edited by Mr Creosote at 22:49 on September, 24th 2003

Like the differences in the vertical sizes of the boxes are off. I realize in this example there is the double description... but it is what I was talking about. They all seem to have this to some degree.



Edited by Tuss at 22:14 on September, 24th 2003

I put two boxes next to each other to save vertical space (because let's face it: the pages are already way too long) and I made the remaining 'last' box wider because it doesn't look as good if it just occupies half of the width and only has blank space next to it. So you actually think the last one should only be half the size?

I really have no idea about this, but is there a way to standardize the size of the black boxes? Like see which one is the biggest then make them all that size... It would look a little cleaner that way.

No, it's not hard-coded. It is a while-loop, but within it, the script checks if there is a 'next comparison' waiting to be displayed and also checks if it's the 'second game' (to be displayed on the right) and then chooses from the three code alternatives automatically

Check out the first entries in the Adventure genre, there you can see different numbers of comparisons now.

Edited by Mr Creosote at 16:10 on September, 24th 2003

I remember this thread

Anyway, it looks good, but I have one small comment: The table layout (2 cells in the first row, one on the bottom) - is that hardcoded? Because if so, you're pretty much limited to a certain number of games, whereas if you had a game per row, you could do a basic "while" loop.

Even though I'm sure nobody remembers this, I thought I'd let you know the first trace of this system is now online here. So far, it's only this one entry and it's also technically limited to Amiga games at the moment (because I had to start programming somewhere), but I'll try to add as many of these comparisons as possible in the next few weeks.

Of course it is. Another reason why I don't like visitors voting. Basically, there will always only be people voting who either love or hate a game. All the others don't care enough to even bother.

isn't it possible to make a game look bad by multiple voting the lowest rating?
(for example if you hate RPG's)

that's why I like creo's personal flair
and I have seen the page and I like the concept, its better then HOTU's "if you like this game, try..."