FLASH: Glide redux: please try again

[Daniel J. O'Neil]

New request for site feedback

Site content: G-rated (safe for home and office viewing!)


Dear Flashers (hee hee),


I've just gotten a note from my trusty system administrator that MIME

has now been set up for Flash on my server. So I'm requesting that

people try our site "Glide: an interactive exploration of visual

language" again and let me know what happens--hey, if you people can't

see it, then I know the other 99.9% of the Internet population won't be

able to see it either.


Here's the URL:


http://nova.stu.rpi.edu/glide/testbed


If the screen comes up black and after 20 seconds or so nothing else

appears, not even the word "loading...," try closing the window and

clicking the rotating "enter Glide" button again. This seems to be a

"feature" that happens on some people's machines. If it still doesn't

work, let us know so we can scratch our heads and tear our hair out.


All feedback on any issues--design, content, usability, technical

issues--will be received with gratitude.


Note: the collabyrinth and lexicon sections are done in Director and

require the Shockwave player. You will also need to download two Xtras

(or wait until we get our hands on D7, hopefully in

January)--instructions are provided. For collabyrinth, just leave

"username" and "password" blank and click on "login." You won't be able

to save files (we're still trying to work out a security system with our

sys admin). The collabyrinth is still very much in development, and not

all of its functionality has been implemented.


Quick overview of site: The Glide Project explores the question: What

does it mean to move through a maze of language? The site is divided

into nine sections: story (an excerpt from the novel "The Death

Dancers"), labyrinth, collabyrinth, music (virtual musical instruments

which can be played), obsession, resonance, visual language,

architecture, lexicon.


Thanks for any and all help.


Best regards,

Daniel

--

Daniel J. O'Neil

M.S. Technical Communication

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

--

Instructor, Writing to the World Wide Web

Developer, Academy of Electronic Media

--

email:

oneildrpi [dot] edu

home: http://www.rpi.edu/~oneild

WWWW: http://www.rpi.edu/~oneild/wwww




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