Survey posted 2006-01-19 04:04 by Jon.

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Ok. First of all, maybe design the site to look a bit newer. Second, update your profile sections and liks and such to have newer calculators. Maybe do an archive cleanup for files that have a low download rate or are bad. Maybe a temporary file cleaning staff could be hired to download programs and recommend they are kept or deleted. Or, you could use a system like if the program has been in the archives for a certain amount of time and has under X amount of downloads, it is deleted. The archives here are the best, but are also full of junk.

I think you have some very good and promising ideas...

But, I love the look and feel of Ticalc.

Come on...the ticalc.org layout is the coolest!

And it also renders very well on every browser on the planet. It even looks great on WebTV (yes, I've done it once.)

Yes.. I believe the layout/design is the least of our problems right now..

Yes, I would like to see the TI-83+ BASIC Games section split up into, oh, say, 50 programs per page. I don't have a dialup connection, but I imagine it would take a very long time to load.

For example, there is a program (no offense to the author), that loops until you press a key. Then it quits. Maybe a better screening process?

Well, I assure you such a program wouldn't be accepted today.

Still, just use the inappropriate file report form for a program like that; it will be removed.

This Design is cool, and Dialup user friendly.

Yeah, the design is perfect. It's very "modern" - just because it doesn't have flashing animated gifs everywhere, sounds, popup windows, and as many images and colors as possible stuffed into each page doesn't mean that it looks "old". The simple layout *is* also great for dialup connections, like you said, unlike bloated phpBB or similar forums which take a long time to load on my end.

"modern" is not how I'd describe ticalc's markup...
Its really old, so the tags are in all caps, everything is plagued with tables, and everything else that is wrong with really old html. It does work with older browsers, though.

BTW, updating it does NOT mean adding animated gifs and all of that other crap. Updating it means revising the markup so the html would contain the main data, and the style sheets would contain the display information. In fact, it would be more elegant and user friendly, unless you're using an older browser!

Sorry for the misunderstanding - as I said in a later post, I thought you meant changing the appearance. Cleaning up the coding would be great, as long as it doesn't sacrifice too much compatibility with older browsers.

I have too. And it loads quickly which is nice for people like me who get 6 KB/s on a get day (We're getting DSL on Thursday...hurray, finally)

I think that the categories should be broken up into more subcategories and you should be able to specify what category(s) you want to search through. I also think that there should be an option on the upload form to include a separate file for the source code of a file that would appear as another link on the file page so that people who don't want the source don't get it (if it is included in the file) and people don't have to go looking through the archives to find the source (if it is uploaded into a different directory).

I create a forum about TI VIntage calculator; you should register PLEASE!

vintageti.forumsplace.com

Thanks
Michel

Other: Clean up the present archives so that duplicate or unnecessary programs can be removed for new ones.

A NEW DESIGN! PLEASE!
Don't be like slashdot and keep an old and ugly design because you're too lazy to update it! We'll be happy to help out.
And besides, you know your html sucks if a DOM parser won't even touch it.

JM (you need an acronym like MV's): what's the progress on the xml thingy? (you know what I'm talking about)

I agree. The site renders very well, yes, but at least a more updated banner.

I like the designe just fine I see no reison to make a bunch of fancy pictures just so people on slow conections have to wait along time. some of the links could use updating and some features could be extended but I think a total redesigne is un nessary.

Yes, I really hope this site's design doesn't do the all-too-common thing in software of starting out simple, easy-to-use, and fast, but becoming bloated and slow in an effort to include more features and make it "look modern".

XML progress is almost started. :-)

But I think the theme hasn't changed because no staff members *want* to change the theme. We might move parts of it over to CSS, but the theme is cool. It's classic. You can't change it. :-)

Okay, I give up. There's no way the theme is going to change.
Although anybody who thinks updating the theme means adding more images, that is not the case.
Updating the theme would just mean using newer html (xhtml maybe), and doing all of the styles with css.

Oh, well if you mean keeping the appearance intact, that would be fine. Still, I can't see why using newer html would necessarily make it better, and it might make it unviewable in some older/non-mainstream browsers (please correct me if I'm wrong about this).

True; the downside is it won't theme correctly in older browsers (older meaning things like Netscape 4 that a few people still use for no reason...) Still, even if it doesn't look quite right, it'll still be fully usable.

The advatnage is cleaner markup (no tag soup anymore) and we also save a bit on bandwidth too.

well, Netscape 4 is what the PSP uses for internet.

It would work with that, but I think they're more concerned with, say IE5 (known for sucking).