09.19.08
Posted in Design, Work at 9:52 pm by Ben
I have an interesting design “problem” I’m working on. A client wants a new website. They would like it to become a useful and usable resource. The target audience for this site come from rural or economically-challenged demographics. So bandwidth and old technology constraints are real issues that need to be addressed by the design. Quite an interesting challenge in that regard. The client however seems to really want to use Flash – mainly just to rotate some imagery around. In other words, it serves no useful purpose other then decoration. Normally that would be fine, but considering the target audience and the constraints we’re dealing with, I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to add Flash. What do you think?
Update: So the after some discussion, the client decided to do go ahead with Flash movie, understanding that perhaps some of the target audience would not see it or have an optimal experience with it. The client did reduce the amount of images that the Flash movie uses, which reduced the file size some 100 Kb which is good.
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09.10.08
Posted in Applications, Technology at 9:43 pm by Ben
This is more of a “anyone know what might be the problem?” post. I recently tried upgrading to Firefox 3 on my laptop, a 2006 MacBook Pro. The problem is that I can’t start Firefox. It continually crashes. Even in safe-mode. I even tried removing my old Firefox user profiles and starting with a new one. Still no go. So is anyone aware of why Firefox 3 continues to crash? Anyone have any tips on how to troubleshoot this?
*Update*: I just recently moved to using my laptop as my primary machine (~90%). To do this I used the excellent Migration Assistant. I basically overwrote my hardly-used user account on my laptop with my desktop’s user account. But I hadn’t upgraded to Firefox3 on the laptop wheras I had on my desktop. And it turns out Firefox 2 user accounts are not compatible with 3, thus causing much crashing and never starting after I tried to update Firefox on my laptop! So I just logged into my old desktop and copied over all the ~/username/Library/Application Support/Firefox files to my laptop into the proper location. And everything now works.
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