On 2013-01-24 3:18 PM, Frank Shearar wrote:
> On 24 January 2013 20:05, Chris Cunnington 
> <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com <mailto:smalltalktelevision at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 2013-01-24 2:33 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>     On 24.01.2013, at 10:10, Chris Cunnington
>>     <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:smalltalktelevision at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     http://box3.squeak.org:8624/error
>>>     There is a nascent error message.
>>>
>>>     (If anyone is wondering about attribution for that image, I
>>>     looked at the site it came from [1] and I do not see how it is
>>>     supposed to be attributed. AFAICT, the maker has not indicated
>>>     who they are or how they want to be attributed.).
>>>     [1] http://www.officialpsds.com/Hole-in-Paper-3-PSD50497.html
>>
>>     It's great that you adopted my idea for the error page look. But
>>     it does not yet have that "ripped-open" feel, because in your
>>     version the inner shadows are missing, and the outer ones do not
>>     look smooth enough. Here are both for comparison again:
>>
>>
>>     IMHO the error page should not have any of the frames but just a
>>     plain background and the hole in the middle (the nav bar is fine
>>     on top). And maybe 260 KBytes for an error image is a bit much?
>>     Mine is 20 KByte. I'm old-fashioned I guess, a quarter mega byte
>>     seems large to me ;)
>>
>>     As for proper attribution, a small-print footer in the lower
>>     right corner should suffice (e.g. "graphic based on artwork by
>>     AMENAZAGFX").
>>
>>     - Bert -
>>
>>     PS: Perhaps proving my point above, the first version of this
>>     email bounced due to excessive size. Had to rescale your image,
>>     and save as jpeg.
>>
>>
>     http://box3.squeak.org:8624/error
>
>     I've changed the gif. And it's much smaller.
>     I'll pull out the frames and background colors in the next rev.
>
>
> I'm far from a graphics person, but might a PNG not better preserve 
> the flat colours in the Browser? At the moment there are rather 
> visible compression artifacts, both in the green parts and especially 
> so in the buttons.
> frank
>
>     Chris
>


I see what you mean. Well, Bert says he'll make another one next week.

Chris
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