I had a table (html) art piece here that I took down. It worked fine in Firefox and IE but once again Apple's Safari hates my art. A friend with that browser said that the table was too wide, forcing him to side to side scroll to read my page. That should never happen (I design this for an 800 x 600 screen), and if it does, please tell me. While I'm crying about Safari, please take a look at this blog from the jodi.org blogroll.
I love it with punctuation! (wish I had thought of it, but my imaginary gambling issues got in the way)
The mysterious alignment issues made me crazy. I used the same word count for every crawl, so I was so surprised that it fell out of alignment every time, and so quickly too. That said, the lack of a reliable alignment works very well with your patterned character choices and your choice of using just two colours. (I did a test version alternating baby blue and grey, it looked fabulous, but my text choices were way too busy to work effectively)
Thanks. I deliberately introduced misalignment in the middle six rows by subtracting "bricks" from each row. Otherwise I think it would hold as a grid. But each "brick" in a column is the same size--as opposed to your words, which are different lengths. I'm guessing it's not so much word count as letter count and it would have to be exact for it to stay aligned in columns.
That said--why do yours need to stay aligned vertically?
Oh I was unclear, mine was based on a letter and space count, so 3,200 characters per piece.
I'm not sure it's such a bad thing in my case, I may find it distracting because it doesn't add to my work in the same way as it adds to your approach. My animated drape GIFs were a different case in video, as the tiger had one more frame than the cow and within the repetitive movement of the animations it was interesting to watch them synchronize every so often. I think that if my crawls did synchronize and unsynchronize with some regularity, it would be an added interesting aspect, (but my text crawls are so long that it doesn't work that way.)
It's something to play with the next time I try it out, especially since I have found that I can set the marquee speed.
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I had a table (html) art piece here that I took down. It worked fine in Firefox and IE but once again Apple's Safari hates my art. A friend with that browser said that the table was too wide, forcing him to side to side scroll to read my page. That should never happen (I design this for an 800 x 600 screen), and if it does, please tell me. While I'm crying about Safari, please take a look at this blog from the jodi.org blogroll.
- tom moody 8-26-2006 12:36 am
I love it with punctuation! (wish I had thought of it, but my imaginary gambling issues got in the way)
The mysterious alignment issues made me crazy. I used the same word count for every crawl, so I was so surprised that it fell out of alignment every time, and so quickly too. That said, the lack of a reliable alignment works very well with your patterned character choices and your choice of using just two colours. (I did a test version alternating baby blue and grey, it looked fabulous, but my text choices were way too busy to work effectively)
- L.M. 8-26-2006 3:36 am
Thanks. I deliberately introduced misalignment in the middle six rows by subtracting "bricks" from each row. Otherwise I think it would hold as a grid. But each "brick" in a column is the same size--as opposed to your words, which are different lengths. I'm guessing it's not so much word count as letter count and it would have to be exact for it to stay aligned in columns.
- tom moody 8-26-2006 3:48 am
That said--why do yours need to stay aligned vertically?
- tom moody 8-26-2006 3:50 am
Oh I was unclear, mine was based on a letter and space count, so 3,200 characters per piece.
I'm not sure it's such a bad thing in my case, I may find it distracting because it doesn't add to my work in the same way as it adds to your approach. My animated drape GIFs were a different case in video, as the tiger had one more frame than the cow and within the repetitive movement of the animations it was interesting to watch them synchronize every so often. I think that if my crawls did synchronize and unsynchronize with some regularity, it would be an added interesting aspect, (but my text crawls are so long that it doesn't work that way.)
It's something to play with the next time I try it out, especially since I have found that I can set the marquee speed.
- L.M. 8-26-2006 4:02 am