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| When's that date again? [message #11571] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 10:19  |
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Originally posted by: john.eclipsefaq.org
I forgot the exact dates for EclipseCon so I went to eclipsecon.org to
check. Amusingly, I found it a non-trivial exercise to find out the
date of the conference. It doesn't appear on the home page. I next tried
"conference program":
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=introduction/
This page has Monday, Tuesday, etc, but no dates. I then tried the "all
sessions" link:
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=sub/&id=al l
Again, I can see the conference is happening on weekdays, but no dates.
I then decided to systematically work my way down the top-left
navigation bar until I found it. The first two, "Registration" and
"Hotels": No dates. The next link, "Spread the News", I struck gold.
Some of the banner adds for EclipseCon friends have the date embedded in
them (March 5-8). Phew!
Short summary: could we put the date of the conference on the main page,
and maybe even on the conference program page?
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| Re: When's that date again? [message #11607 is a reply to message #11571] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 11:32  |
 Eclipse Webmaster
Messages: 145899
Registered: July 2009 |
Senior Member |
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You likely have an ad-blocker with the word "banner" in it, as the dates
are in a top-page graphic called:
<img border="0" src="image.php?gif=image/banner/" usemap="#bannermap"
alt= " "/>
It would be good practice to have such an important piece of information
in plain text. It would also be useful for the infinitely small
percentage of people who use a non-gui browser.
BTW, the answer is March 5th to 8th, 2007
D.
John Arthorne wrote:
> I forgot the exact dates for EclipseCon so I went to eclipsecon.org to
> check. Amusingly, I found it a non-trivial exercise to find out the
> date of the conference. It doesn't appear on the home page. I next tried
> "conference program":
>
> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=introduction/
>
> This page has Monday, Tuesday, etc, but no dates. I then tried the "all
> sessions" link:
>
> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=sub/&id=al l
>
> Again, I can see the conference is happening on weekdays, but no dates.
> I then decided to systematically work my way down the top-left
> navigation bar until I found it. The first two, "Registration" and
> "Hotels": No dates. The next link, "Spread the News", I struck gold.
> Some of the banner adds for EclipseCon friends have the date embedded in
> them (March 5-8). Phew!
>
> Short summary: could we put the date of the conference on the main page,
> and maybe even on the conference program page?
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| Re: When's that date again? [message #11642 is a reply to message #11607] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 17:27 |
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Originally posted by: john.eclipsefaq.org
Fascinating... You're right, I see the banner just fine in IE. However,
even if I craft a URL for that image directly, Firefox 1.5 won't render
that image for me:
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/image.php?gif=image/banner/
I crafted another URL for another image on that page, and it works fine:
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/image.php?gif=image/register_ left
So, I guess there's something about that image Firefox isn't liking. It
also seems to work fine on Firefox 2.0 on another machine I have.
Anyway, it definitely explains why there's such a complete absence of
dates elsewhere on the site. If it's a localized problem that others
aren't seeing, it's not a big deal.
--
Denis Roy wrote:
> You likely have an ad-blocker with the word "banner" in it, as the dates
> are in a top-page graphic called:
>
> <img border="0" src="image.php?gif=image/banner/" usemap="#bannermap"
> alt= " "/>
>
> It would be good practice to have such an important piece of information
> in plain text. It would also be useful for the infinitely small
> percentage of people who use a non-gui browser.
>
> BTW, the answer is March 5th to 8th, 2007
>
> D.
>
> John Arthorne wrote:
>
>> I forgot the exact dates for EclipseCon so I went to eclipsecon.org to
>> check. Amusingly, I found it a non-trivial exercise to find out the
>> date of the conference. It doesn't appear on the home page. I next
>> tried "conference program":
>>
>> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=introduction/
>>
>> This page has Monday, Tuesday, etc, but no dates. I then tried the
>> "all sessions" link:
>>
>> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=sub/&id=al l
>>
>> Again, I can see the conference is happening on weekdays, but no
>> dates. I then decided to systematically work my way down the top-left
>> navigation bar until I found it. The first two, "Registration" and
>> "Hotels": No dates. The next link, "Spread the News", I struck gold.
>> Some of the banner adds for EclipseCon friends have the date embedded
>> in them (March 5-8). Phew!
>>
>> Short summary: could we put the date of the conference on the main
>> page, and maybe even on the conference program page?
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| Re: When's that date again? [message #11679 is a reply to message #11642] |
Tue, 06 February 2007 21:34 |
Eclipse Webmaster
Messages: 145899
Registered: July 2009 |
Senior Member |
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I've opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173219 so that
the EclipseCON team can investigate. That top banner is really important.
I also opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=173220 so
that the dates are displayed in plain text - perhaps on the home page.
Can you confirm (preferably in bug 173219) if you're using something
like AdBlock, and if so, if the banner appears after disabling AdBlock?
Thanks
John Arthorne wrote:
> Fascinating... You're right, I see the banner just fine in IE. However,
> even if I craft a URL for that image directly, Firefox 1.5 won't render
> that image for me:
>
> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/image.php?gif=image/banner/
>
> I crafted another URL for another image on that page, and it works fine:
>
> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/image.php?gif=image/register_ left
>
> So, I guess there's something about that image Firefox isn't liking. It
> also seems to work fine on Firefox 2.0 on another machine I have.
> Anyway, it definitely explains why there's such a complete absence of
> dates elsewhere on the site. If it's a localized problem that others
> aren't seeing, it's not a big deal.
> --
>
> Denis Roy wrote:
>
>> You likely have an ad-blocker with the word "banner" in it, as the
>> dates are in a top-page graphic called:
>>
>> <img border="0" src="image.php?gif=image/banner/" usemap="#bannermap"
>> alt= " "/>
>>
>> It would be good practice to have such an important piece of
>> information in plain text. It would also be useful for the infinitely
>> small percentage of people who use a non-gui browser.
>>
>> BTW, the answer is March 5th to 8th, 2007
>>
>> D.
>>
>> John Arthorne wrote:
>>
>>> I forgot the exact dates for EclipseCon so I went to eclipsecon.org
>>> to check. Amusingly, I found it a non-trivial exercise to find out
>>> the date of the conference. It doesn't appear on the home page. I
>>> next tried "conference program":
>>>
>>> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=introduction/
>>>
>>> This page has Monday, Tuesday, etc, but no dates. I then tried the
>>> "all sessions" link:
>>>
>>> http://www.eclipsecon.org/2007/index.php?page=sub/&id=al l
>>>
>>> Again, I can see the conference is happening on weekdays, but no
>>> dates. I then decided to systematically work my way down the top-left
>>> navigation bar until I found it. The first two, "Registration" and
>>> "Hotels": No dates. The next link, "Spread the News", I struck gold.
>>> Some of the banner adds for EclipseCon friends have the date embedded
>>> in them (March 5-8). Phew!
>>>
>>> Short summary: could we put the date of the conference on the main
>>> page, and maybe even on the conference program page?
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