It's March Already!?

Just prior to leaving work and heading for home on my bicycle, I took a brief gander at the calendar, noticing that February has only 28 days! The arrogance! Why can’t you just conform like so many other good months…

That means that Noscope March, currently dubbed “Arboretum”, will be barebones and delayed for a few days. No newsletter and no layered PSD download (atleast initially). I might get a new header up for tonight, I might not.

Until then, here’s a rendertest of what I have so far:

Arboretum rendertest

Update: Finished it: No March – Arboretum.

Responses to “It's March Already!?”

  1. Nik says:

    Until then, here?s a rendertest of what I have so far:

    intriguing…

    btw: Off topic but, you’re very lucky to be able to cycle to/from work.. just given up the motorway trek myself!

    February 28, 2005 at 21:55
  2. Michael Heilemann says:

    It needs a couple of spinners and a humongous monitor with a japanese chick sucking down strawberries…

    February 28, 2005 at 22:15
  3. Joen says:

    Hehe, that could totally work!

    It’s already not, though… it’s actually turning into something of a rehash of Surrealisme

    Nik,

    Yeh, I enjoy the cycling, and with a 9-17 office job it’s good for me too. It’s not always though, it’s been cooold these last days, and somehow that makes exhausts stick close to the ground.

    February 28, 2005 at 22:21
  4. Chris J. Davis says:

    Ahhh! Sucked into unstoppable loop when I go to the link you provided. What I could see of image 1, before it was reloaded looked tight though. Looking forward to more.

    March 1, 2005 at 03:16
  5. Joen says:

    Ahhh! Sucked into unstoppable loop when I go to the link you provided.

    Argh, this might be causing my server to hang all the time (like it did tonight!).

    Can you elaborate on this?

    March 1, 2005 at 17:05
  6. mj says:

    i don’t really have suggestions or anything, but i think it looks gorgeous.

    March 1, 2005 at 19:00
  7. Joen says:

    Thanks mj.

    I’d better get to work on the remaining…

    March 1, 2005 at 19:18
  8. matthew says:

    All those just keep reloading for me.

    March 1, 2005 at 21:28
  9. Joen says:

    Grrr! Must be a Safari thing? Mac only for sure! Can you possibly answer these questions:

    • Is there a #1 or other number at the end of the URL, or is that chopped off?
    • Does the entire page reload? Or is it just the bottom frame?
    • Can you tell if it’s the html that reloads, or if it’s perhaps just the Flash that’s reset?
    • If you’re in Safari, can you try in Firefox or visa versa? Do any of the browser display the images properly?

    I’d really appreciate your help.

    March 1, 2005 at 21:36
  10. Nik says:

    Hey Joen..

    Is there a #1 or other number at the end of the URL, or is that chopped off?

    No, the numbers are at the end of the URL’s.

    Does the entire page reload? Or is it just the bottom frame?

    Looks like it’s the entire page.

    Can you tell if it?s the html that reloads, or if it?s perhaps just the Flash that?s reset?

    Not too sure on this, but appeas that the whole page is refreshing.

    If you?re in Safari, can you try in Firefox or visa versa? Do any of the browser display the images properly?

    All on OSX:

    Safari = :(

    Firefox = :)

    IE 5.2 = :( No refresh, loads then refresh to blank white page.

    Camino = :)

    Omniweb 5 = :)

    March 2, 2005 at 15:43
  11. Joen says:

    Excellent Nik, thanks a lot.

    One more thing. Can you test the following page directly?

    http://www.noscope.com/installments/showissue.php?2005_0303

    That’s the page that gets loaded in an iframe in the usual links.

    If that’s the page the reloads indefinitely, then I’ve found the page to fix.

    March 2, 2005 at 15:53
  12. Nik says:

    One more thing. Can you test the following page directly?
    http://www.noscope.com/installments/showissue.php?2005_0303

    That page loads fine Joen. No refresh. I guess that means it’s the page that contains the iFrame?

    March 2, 2005 at 15:56
  13. Joen says:

    Nik, thanks so much for your help on this. Can you check out the following page?

    http://www.noscope.com/installments/debug.html

    This page does contain the iframe. I’m fairly sure that’s the culprit. However, before this page, there is a “distribution” page, that might also be the culprit. If this page reloads, then that’s the one I have to fix, and not the distribution page.

    Thanks again.

    March 2, 2005 at 16:33
  14. Nik says:

    Can you check out the following page?
    http://www.noscope.com/installments/debug.html

    That page loads ok… it appears to flash once to start (might be me) but loads the content perfectly.

    March 2, 2005 at 16:36
  15. Joen says:

    I think that flashing happens when the #1 is appended, so I won’t worry about that.

    I’m narrowing it down. I’ve taken a simpler approach, without the distribution. Does this page work?

    http://www.noscope.com/installments/debug.php?2005_03

    March 2, 2005 at 17:04
  17. Joen says:

    Excellent! It’ll be it then! … right after I come home from work… :)

    Thanks for your help mate, I owe you a pint.

    March 2, 2005 at 17:23
  18. Nik says:

    No worries..

    March 2, 2005 at 17:25
  19. matthew says:

    yes, all as above although the current links in the articles are still reloading (but then it could be that youve not had a chance to fix them yet)

    March 2, 2005 at 17:56
  20. Joen says:

    yes, all as above although the current links in the articles are still reloading (but then it could be that youve not had a chance to fix them yet)

    … Wait a moment… a pattern is forming :)

    This page works, right?

    But this page doesn’t? (i.e. it reloads)

    March 2, 2005 at 18:10
  21. Nik says:

    Yeh that’s right… for me anyway:

    My Setup:

    OSX 10.3.8 and Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12)

    The latest mac spec as far as I’m aware.

    March 2, 2005 at 18:14
  22. Joen says:

    … pretty strange! Appearantly Safari doesn’t like directlinks to the anchors.

    That means that for now, I’ll just link without the anchors…

    This is shotgun debugging at it’s best :) Thanks.

    March 2, 2005 at 18:17