LBH's Armageddon Shipviewer

[mbtanker]

I'm a bit too lazy to wade through the above messags but it sounds like there was a Firefox issue and talk of plug-ins and ActiveX. Not sure what got adjusted or not but I just visited

http://uk.geocities.com/l_b_h@btinternet.com/Updated_SFOS_Static/ShipList.htm

with Firefox and all of the links off of there do not work. The reason they don't is that you have a backslash before the page name in the url instead of a forward slash. So for the Hyperion MC you have

http://uk.geocities.com/l_b_h@btinternet.com/Updated_SFOS_Static/Earth_Alliance\Hyperion-MC.htm

the end of the url should be Earth_Alliance/Hyperion-MC.htm

If you try to go to the link you'll get the error. You'll see that the backslash has been transcoded to %5C. If you replace that with the / (forward slash) manually the link url will work fine in FF.

 

[animus]

Why do so many shipviewers put the threshold boxes at the top of the damage boxes? I start the damage check-off at the top and work down. It's hard to reverse it, working up to the threshholds. :?

Oh, good work LBH, thanks. Don't mean to be critical, just a comment.

 

[Obsidian]

Why do so many shipviewers put the threshold boxes at the top of the damage boxes? I start the damage check-off at the top and work down. It's hard to reverse it, working up to the threshholds

Click on the word Damage or Crew and the boxes will reverse. There are lots of things on the pages that will change if you click on them. Clicking Name and Crew Quality will give you boxes to type into for example. You can also change the fighters that are on your ship by clicking on the word Craft.

 

[animus]

Why do so many shipviewers put the threshold boxes at the top of the damage boxes? I start the damage check-off at the top and work down. It's hard to reverse it, working up to the threshholds

Click on the word Damage or Crew and the boxes will reverse. There are lots of things on the pages that will change if you click on them. Clicking Name and Crew Quality will give you boxes to type into for example. You can also change the fighters that are on your ship by clicking on the word Craft.

Hot damn! Now that's slick!

Can it be changed so you can resort the weapons by arc or by AD?

 

[Jellicoe]

Preople, people, interesting as the discussion of the relative merits of various browsers is, it doesn't really belong on this thread unless it directly pertains to the shipviewer.

Noone has yet said if reversing the slashes has allowed it to work in Firefox (to the extent that the links work) or if they have it got lost in the noise.

You want to download the source files and play with it to be FF compatible, there are links to shipviewer zip files of all versions in my Accolades post, which is linked to in my sig.

LBH

Thanks your shipviewer has come in most handy - as have the downloadable files. I use Safari and Firefox browsers and it works fine, no problems, never have been

 

[Silvereye]

The Armageddon viewer mostly works with Firefox, there are some niggles with spacing and fitting when changing the weapon options (e-mines, missiles) and Auxillary Craft loadout as well as updating fields and refreshing the screen. The SFoS viewer has the "%5C" "/" problem still.

However, as my knowledge of XML can be written on a grain of sand with a large felt tip pen, all I can do is point the problems out to someone who might know stuff. Still the 'open in IE tab' woks fine for me.

 

[lastbesthope]

I'm a bit too lazy to wade through the above messags but it sounds like there was a Firefox issue and talk of plug-ins and ActiveX. Not sure what got adjusted or not but I just visited

http://uk.geocities.com/l_b_h@btinternet.com/Updated_SFOS_Static/ShipList.htm

with Firefox and all of the links off of there do not work.

That's the Old SFOS one, the newer Armageddone has had the slash issue fixed.

I am not going to repair the SFOS one as:

a) It's been superceded
b) If I do fix it, I'll reverse engineer it from the Armageddon one as there's some extra info in those stats now.

LBH

 

[Silvereye]

More for the Firefox/IE debate really than any further problems with the shipviewer. It relates to internet browser stats posted earlier by Burger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/default.stm

VOTE RESULTS
Which browser do you use?
Internet Explorer 30.28%
Firefox 49.30%
Both 20.42%
33686 Votes Cast

They also have a 'head-to-head' article about Firefox/IE

 

[Silvereye]

Hi, there is a bit of a coding error with the G'Quan cruisers (and variants). Normally when clicking on the Crew or Damage text it reverses the order of the check boxes. With the G'Quans, they both just reverse the Damage boxes.

 

[lastbesthope]

Oops, figured out the problemn, I'll try and sort it tonight online.

LBH