A little while ago, the BBC started to place embedded slideshows at the
top of some big news pages. They were featured for example in coverage
of the Australian bush fires, and the US election.

I haven't seen any new examples for a while. Have they been abandoned?

An example is at:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/americas/2008/vote_usa_2008/default
.stm>

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:A little while ago, the BBC started to place embedded slideshows at 
the
: top of some big news pages. They were featured for example in 
coverage
: of the Australian bush fires, and the US election.
:
: I haven't seen any new examples for a while. Have they been 
abandoned?
:

Hopefully, yes!

I'm not against their use, just their onLoad nature, even worse are 
those f*cking embedded videos that start playing, not only are they 
abusing my IP connection but they delay the page load. Such was the 
BBC's arrogance in using such content I stopped using the BBC news 
site as my home page, such content should be an option, not a forced 
requirement.
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Jerry <mapson.scarts@btinternet.com.INVALID> wrote:

> :A little while ago, the BBC started to place embedded slideshows at 
> the
> : top of some big news pages. They were featured for example in 
> coverage
> : of the Australian bush fires, and the US election.
> :
> : I haven't seen any new examples for a while. Have they been 
> abandoned?
> :
> 
> Hopefully, yes!
> 
> I'm not against their use, just their onLoad nature, even worse are 
> those f*cking embedded videos that start playing, not only are they 
> abusing my IP connection but they delay the page load. Such was the 
> BBC's arrogance in using such content I stopped using the BBC news 
> site as my home page, such content should be an option, not a forced 
> requirement.

There's no way round that (for the images, I mean). If you're going to
have images that display in that fashion, they have to all load straight
away.

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: Jerry <mapson.scarts@btinternet.com.INVALID> wrote:
:
: > :A little while ago, the BBC started to place embedded slideshows 
at
: > the
: > : top of some big news pages. They were featured for example in
: > coverage
: > : of the Australian bush fires, and the US election.
: > :
: > : I haven't seen any new examples for a while. Have they been
: > abandoned?
: > :
: >
: > Hopefully, yes!
: >
: > I'm not against their use, just their onLoad nature, even worse 
are
: > those f*cking embedded videos that start playing, not only are 
they
: > abusing my IP connection but they delay the page load. Such was 
the
: > BBC's arrogance in using such content I stopped using the BBC news
: > site as my home page, such content should be an option, not a 
forced
: > requirement.
:
: There's no way round that (for the images, I mean). If you're going 
to
: have images that display in that fashion, they have to all load 
straight
: away.
:

Rubbish, these are all basically a Flash content (slide show, video or 
audio), other sites manage to use navigation controls that inclued a 
"play" button. How the BBC decided to implement their Flash content 
was just another example of the BBC current f*ckwittedness... :~(
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> even worse are 
> those f*cking embedded videos that start playing, not only are they 
> abusing my IP connection but they delay the page load
> 

For once - i agree with you .


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Jerry <mapson.scarts@btinternet.com.INVALID> wrote:

> : There's no way round that (for the images, I mean). If you're going
> to
> : have images that display in that fashion, they have to all load 
> straight
> : away.
> 
> Rubbish, 

Rubbish yourself.

> these are all basically a Flash content (slide show, video or 
> audio), other sites manage to use navigation controls that inclued a 
> "play" button. How the BBC decided to implement their Flash content 
> was just another example of the BBC current f*ckwittedness... :~(

It does

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Jerry <mapson.scarts@btinternet.com.INVALID> wrote:

> : There's no way round that (for the images, I mean). If you're going
> to
> : have images that display in that fashion, they have to all load 
> straight
> : away.
> :
> 
> Rubbish, these are all basically a Flash content (slide show, video or
> audio), other sites manage to use navigation controls that inclued a 
> "play" button. How the BBC decided to implement their Flash content 
> was just another example of the BBC current f*ckwittedness... :~(

Rubbish yourself. That slideshow we were talking about doesn't use
Flash. If you have to be rude, try to be right as well.

(Though I was wrong about it needing to load all images at once - it
only loads two at once.)

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: Jerry <mapson.scarts@btinternet.com.INVALID> wrote:
:
: > : There's no way round that (for the images, I mean). If you're 
going
: > to
: > : have images that display in that fashion, they have to all load
: > straight
: > : away.
: >
: > Rubbish,
:
: Rubbish yourself.
:
: > these are all basically a Flash content (slide show, video or
: > audio), other sites manage to use navigation controls that inclued 
a
: > "play" button. How the BBC decided to implement their Flash 
content
: > was just another example of the BBC current f*ckwittedness... :~(
:
: It does
:

If you have to make two replies to the same post then please try not 
to contradict yourself!...
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