Comments on: Soundcloud’s New Player Widget is very nice.

By: mooncaine

mooncaine — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:02:30 +0000

Good thinking about long-term uefulness and reliability. I try to think about those issues, too, when I decide whether to start using a new instrument, music app, hardware, software…. I have lost creative work from years ago because I didn’t think ahead about getting it out of some program or disk format that later became obsolete or just no longer supported.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:09:17 +0000

I agree… I really need to refresh the blog. It will happen soon. All the ads will be gone except Google Adsense which are the least intrusive and actually perform.

By: michel

michel — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:10:53 +0000

thnx!
if i were you, i would get rid of the adds, unless it makes you a lot of money. personally, i’m using adblock plus and i’ve never even seen ads on your page. most of the people i know use some ad blocker.

keep up the good work, you’ve got some pretty inspiring posts every now and then!

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:36:26 +0000

Yeah I hate that browsers render stuff differently. I do know that the font gets tiny in my threaded comments. I need to fix that for sure. I’m considering using Disquss or Intense Debate. I may even do a new theme here and zap some of the useless ads that make the page load slowly. Anyway… some nice tunes on your page!

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:20:37 +0000

Im reposting here cos the nesting has made text pretty unreadable eheh:

‘Raytrace says:
May 17, 2009 at 4:18 pm

hehe yeh it is v handy – yeh it does have a load of comments – Im very glad people seem to like it :) – cos tbh my head was melted making that ‘track’ haha’

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:18:45 +0000

hehe yeh it is v handy – yeh it does have a load of comments – Im very glad people seem to like it :) – cos tbh my head was melted making that ‘track’ haha

By: michel

michel — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:40:17 +0000

hey oliver,

thnx so much for sending me that screenshot. i installed safari (i normally only use firefox) and it does indeed show the default myspace player… makes me feel very bad. but i think it’s due to a safari bug. my css code is fine, safari renders it wrong. based on the fact that about 3% of the browsing population use safari, i’ve decided not to get one gray hair over this and just mention in my blog post that it doesn’t work in safari.

otoh, when i look at this very thread in firefox, the font gets smaller with every “reply level”. so your last answer is very hard to read. in safari, it looks nice though, with all the replies 1 point smaller than the main post.

this is exactly the reason i quit building websites. customers expect their website to look good on every browser & platform, but sometimes browsers are made of fail and you spend all your time working around that.

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:26:46 +0000

I just took a look overthere… great idea. I see you got some nice comments too :)

By: Oliver Chesler

Oliver Chesler — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:30:26 +0000

Here’s a screenshot of your MySpace page (Mac, Safari 3.2.3): http://tinyurl.com/ph94ju

By: Raytrace

Raytrace — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:02:38 +0000

yeh I embed a single track in my sig on the IDMF forums – they have a specific {soundcloud} tag which is handy :p