3.0 has been released

[Dirk Hohndel]

Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> writes:

> On 02/21/2013 07:12 PM, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> I posted the announcements, the website is updated, the load on the
>> (reasonably beefy) server hosting all this is already shooting up...
>
>> Now let's wait for the bug reports to roll in.
>
> Ok, here's one on the web page: Of course, I was interested to
> see whether the video tutorial was linked.
>
> It took me a while to realize that it can be found, but only if one
> guesses that "Documentation" is not only the heading of a sub-menu,
> but a clickable link on its own, which happenes to be the only one
> leading to the tutorial link. Maybe you can change this to be a little
> more easy to find?

Oops. Sorry. Not intentional. It seemed like the logical place to put
it, but I can just give it it's own sub-page.

> Regarding the Web page http://subsurface.hohndel.org/documentation/ -
> it's strange how that page links to the "supported dive computer list"
> and to the video, but not to the manual.
> I'd propose to either make "Documentation" a menu-title, only,
> removing the ../documentation/ page but listing all three of the
> supported dive computer list, the manual and the video tutorial as
> menu entries. Or have ../documentation/ actually link all documentation
> components, just to be consistent.
>
> Regarding the <video> embedding: Firefox renders the page a little
> strange, as it cannot squeeze the width=960 video into the column
> where it displays the player, the player overlaps with the other
> columns in a strange fashion.
> I'd suggest to either make the <video> window smaller - using something
> like <video width="640" height="360" ...> or display the <video> window
> on a page of its own, that does not use columns.
> It may also be worthwhile to allow the user to choose between different
> versions of the video, as in 1080p vs. 720p, (the relevant links are:
>> http://archive.org/download/SubsurfaceVideoTutorial/Subsurface_Tutorial_1080p30_3Mbps.mp4
>> http://archive.org/download/SubsurfaceVideoTutorial/Subsurface_Tutorial_1080p30_3Mbps.webm
>> http://archive.org/download/SubsurfaceVideoTutorial/Subsurface_Tutorial_720p30_1500kbps.mp4
>> http://archive.org/download/SubsurfaceVideoTutorial/Subsurface_Tutorial_720p30_1500kbps.webm
> ) and/or link to the archive.org overview page where people are
> presented all the download options and formats:
> http://archive.org/details/SubsurfaceVideoTutorial
>
> Regarding the support for non-<video>-capable browsers: There is a
> spurious "ZA" after the alternative text inside the <video> tag.

Oh boy. More work.

/D