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http://www.kahvipannu.com/~zucca/PSIII_shots/
My collection of PSIII remastered screenshots. Every image can be zoomed to its full size by clicking it (it still need some kind of text of inform user about this feature).

The whole gallery is a product of my bash script.
From the menu link you can go to "Test options". Try changing some of the options and report any errors and improvement ideas to me, please. :)

Note: Gallery needs javascript to have all the nice features. However it's not needed. To access options you need to have javascript support. All option settings are stored to cookies.

It's actually pretty good. A few of those screens are ones I've not seen before, actually.

Is that the 2xSAI filter?

Since you're showing some pages, I'm going to comment on the code.

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/* Let's have cooler scrollbars */

No. Coloured scroll bars are non-standard. Please spare my Error Console!

There's also no need to use '98-style HTML comments around your style and script elements' content.

Urgh, the page uses a table-based lay-out, complete with deprecated HTML style that should be done using CSS. DO NOT WANT!

Looks very good mate. You should submit these to Hugues Johnson at:
http://ps3.huguesjohnson.com/

BenoitRen wrote:Is that the 2xSAI filter?

Nope. The screenshots are taken with scale2x filter applied, then using ImageMagick. I don't remember the command line for that, but I remember first resizing to 400% the added some noice then resized back to 50%. I also specified the filter for resizing but I cannot remember it. Shots are saved as 8-bit png to save space. I can post the precise command line later.

BenoitRen wrote:Since you're showing some pages, I'm going to comment on the code. :D

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/* Let's have cooler scrollbars */

No. Coloured scroll bars are non-standard. Please spare my Error Console!

There's also no need to use '98-style HTML comments around your style and script elements' content.

Urgh, the page uses a table-based lay-out, complete with deprecated HTML style that should be done using CSS. DO NOT WANT!

Yes. Most of the code is as old as time itself. :D Reason for that is that I want those pages to work with older browsers too. Mobile phone browsers too.
I've noticed that table-based layout works better.
The comments are there until first final/working/stable version. Those comments are there for all the testers who want to look at the source code.
The scrollbar colouring will be removed. It's there because I was wondering why it doesn't actually work. Because it is just copy-pasted from my other work where it does work. So it is basically just a "side thing". Pay no attention to it.
I plan not to use CSS. I just want to build a html skeleton where user can have his/her own CSS stylesheet.

And can you list the deprecated html styles? I'm bit outdated in html knowledge. ;E I still want my script to produce valid (loose) syntax.

BTW. Did you looked at the Javascript code? :D That's even more horrible than the html. Lots of "performance loss" code.

Anyway the basic idea for this little script came from my idea to have STATIC html pages for image galleries. Static because I want to burn my images to CD with the gallery. Also static html does not load the server much. ;)
Reducing server load and keeping browser compability are the top priorities.

Since this is bash script it can only be run on UNIX (like) system. But I'm planning to make Python or Perl version.

Missagh wrote:Looks very good mate. You should submit these to Hugues Johnson at:
http://ps3.huguesjohnson.com/

Thanks. :) I'll give him the link next time I get home again. :)

Suprisingly there are only few errors.

Zucca wrote:Most of the code is as old as time itself. Reason for that is that I want those pages to work with older browsers too. Mobile phone browsers too.

How old? The oldest web browser that's reasonable to support because of market share is IE6, which has its share of bugs, but supports just enough CSS to not have to use table-based lay-outs. Mobile phone browsers from Opera and Apple have very good web standards support.

And can you list the deprecated html styles? I'm bit outdated in html knowledge. ;E I still want my script to produce valid (loose) syntax.

Loose syntax includes the deprecated HTML styling. You should aim for the Strict DTD. Any attribute that specifies style is deprecated in favor of CSS.

• body's alink, bgcolor, link, text and vlink attributes
• div element's align attribute
• font element
• script element's language attribute
• table element's align, bgcolor, border, cellpadding, cellspacing, valign, and width attributes
• td element's align, bgcolor, height and valign attributes

Did you looked at the Javascript code?

I took a short look, and it was so long and cryptic I didn't bother to look further.

EDIT: Hurray, now the code BBCode shows just like the quote BBCode in the PS Cave Classic board style!

I have to leave at least some of the HTML styles there to have some styling if user hasn't specified any css styles.
At least some light weight browsers, Like Dillo and graphical links, can't handle css very well. But I'll remove as much as I can.
Thanks for your suggestions, Ben. :)