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The OpenCores-team wants to define and start a new multimedia project
pursued within the OpenCores community. The long term goal is to be
able to support various multimedia standards and products by expanding
our collection of media IP cores.

Read more here: http://opencores.org/?do=newsletter&2009=06#n3

On Jul 2, 7:16*am, OC-team <marcus.erlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The OpenCores-team wants to define and start a new multimedia project
> pursued within the OpenCores community. The long term goal is to be
> able to support various multimedia standards and products by expanding
> our collection of media IP cores.
>
> Read more here: *http://opencores.org/?do=newsletter&2009=06#n3


I would ask that you change your page layout so that it does not
require a screen width of 1400 pixels to be able to view it without
panning right and left. I thought that it was standard to layout the
page so that it will adapt to the width of the browser window?

To be honest, this would help your advertisers since I currently pan
right so that all the ads on the left side of the screen are not
viewable.

Rick

On Jul 2, 3:35*pm, rickman <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 7:16*am, OC-team <marcus.erlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The OpenCores-team wants to define and start a new multimedia project
> > pursued within the OpenCores community. The long term goal is to be
> > able to support various multimedia standards and products by expanding
> > our collection of media IP cores.
>
> > Read more here: *http://opencores.org/?do=newsletter&2009=06#n3
>
> I would ask that you change your page layout so that it does not
> require a screen width of 1400 pixels to be able to view it without
> panning right and left. *I thought that it was standard to layout the
> page so that it will adapt to the width of the browser window?
>
> To be honest, this would help your advertisers since I currently pan
> right so that all the ads on the left side of the screen are not
> viewable.
>
> Rick

Hi Rick,

I think ORSOC.SE is only fishing for customers from companies
where company does not allow any displays to be used with less
than 1600 pixels horisontal resolution.

so the ORSOC ADVERTIZEMENTS are targeted properly

Antti

On Jul 2, 8:45*am, "Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com"
<Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 3:35*pm, rickman <gnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Jul 2, 7:16*am, OC-team <marcus.erlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > The OpenCores-team wants to define and start a new multimedia project
> > > pursued within the OpenCores community. The long term goal is to be
> > > able to support various multimedia standards and products by expanding
> > > our collection of media IP cores.
>
> > > Read more here: *http://opencores.org/?do=newsletter&2009=06#n3
>
> > I would ask that you change your page layout so that it does not
> > require a screen width of 1400 pixels to be able to view it without
> > panning right and left. *I thought that it was standard to layout the
> > page so that it will adapt to the width of the browser window?
>
> > To be honest, this would help your advertisers since I currently pan
> > right so that all the ads on the left side of the screen are not
> > viewable.
>
> > Rick
>
> Hi Rick,
>
> I think ORSOC.SE is only fishing for customers from companies
> where company does not allow any displays to be used with less
> than 1600 pixels horisontal resolution.
>
> so the ORSOC ADVERTIZEMENTS are targeted properly
>
> Antti

Yeah, I think I detect a note of sarcasm... But honestly, I don't
typically surf the web with my browser window taking up the entire
screen! I do get your point though. What started out as a grassroots
effort to share IP seems to have turned into a commercial venture.
We'll see how well that works for them.

I would draw a parallel to geocaching. This is a sport that requires
nothing but a GPS to participate. It was started by an individual who
used a newsgroup to invite others to participate. The idea was
commercialized by groundspeak (geocaching.com) who runs the largest
(by far) web site for sharing caching info. But geocaching.com has
put the emphasis on inclusion and allowed quality to be sacrificed for
quantity. Now there are literally 100's of thousands of caches around
the world, but the vast majority of them are not really much fun to
hunt. There are other, newer caching sites with an emphasis on
quality rather than automatically including everyone. They are
growing and if geocaching.com doesn't continue to serve the caching
community, they may become the has-been of the caching community.

I think there is a parallel to oc.com. They have taken a grassroots
effort and are attempting to turn it to produce a profit. If they are
not very careful about how they do that, they can lose the grassroots
support and undermine their own organization. We'll see how
successfully they manage this.

Rick

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes:
> I think ORSOC.SE is only fishing for customers from companies
> where company does not allow any displays to be used with less
> than 1600 pixels horisontal resolution.

My display is 2560 pixels across, and I still have to scroll on that
page. Why? Because I don't make my browser that wide. If I make the
browser wide enough to not scroll, the text becomes difficult to read
as the paragraph lines are too wide.

Designing for a display size is stupid. You have to design for a
readable size. The worst part of that page is that I *can't* make the
paragraphs narrow enough to be easily readable.

On Jul 2, 3:04*pm, DJ Delorie <d...@delorie.com> wrote:
> "Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com" <Antti.Luk...@googlemail.com> writes:
> > I think ORSOC.SE is only fishing for customers from companies
> > where company does not allow any displays to be used with less
> > than 1600 pixels horisontal resolution.
>
> My display is 2560 pixels across, and I still have to scroll on that
> page. *Why? *Because I don't make my browser that wide. *If I make the
> browser wide enough to not scroll, the text becomes difficult to read
> as the paragraph lines are too wide.
>
> Designing for a display size is stupid. *You have to design for a
> readable size. *The worst part of that page is that I *can't* make the
> paragraphs narrow enough to be easily readable.

BINGO! That is exactly the issue I have often on *many* web pages
(including Google Groups). Sometimes I think that web designers think
the world revolves around them rather than revolving around FPGA
designers... ;^)

Rick

rickman <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Jul 2, 7:16*am, OC-team <marcus.erlands...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Read more here: *http://opencores.org/?do=newsletter&2009=06#n3
>
>
>I would ask that you change your page layout so that it does not
>require a screen width of 1400 pixels to be able to view it without
>panning right and left.

OC-team, if you're actually reading this thread, I suggest that you edit
your "main.css" file, and in lines 23 and 28 change "width: 1250px;", to
something sensible like "width: 960px;".

And while we're on the subject of open standards, check this out:
http://960.gs/

--
Dave Farrance