Comments on: ESPN.com Looking a Bit Pixelated http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/ Life, web, and caffeine. By Pat Collins. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:13:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on ESPN.com Looking a Bit Pixelated by: Pat http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-42 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:26:39 +0000 http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-42 Nonetheless you make good points about the site and I've corrected the story accordingly. Thanks, Mike. The legacy of champions is their ability to overcome trials and tribulations. How did the Seahawks do that? Miss field goals? Drop passes? Throw interceptions at key points in the game? It was a sloppy game all around and I admit that, but I didn't see them do anything extraordinary to rise above their troubles (even outside ones created by the officials) to get that trophy. Sorry! Can't we all just get along? Group hug! Nonetheless you make good points about the site and I’ve corrected the story accordingly. Thanks, Mike.

The legacy of champions is their ability to overcome trials and tribulations. How did the Seahawks do that? Miss field goals? Drop passes? Throw interceptions at key points in the game? It was a sloppy game all around and I admit that, but I didn’t see them do anything extraordinary to rise above their troubles (even outside ones created by the officials) to get that trophy. Sorry!

Can’t we all just get along? Group hug!

]]> Comment on ESPN.com Looking a Bit Pixelated by: Mike D. http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-41 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:50:35 +0000 http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-41 It was actually not sIFR at all, and even pre-dated Inman's IFR by at least two years. It was basically inline Flash files with text... that's all. And yes, the page is huge and so are all of those images. As for the Super Bowl, I really don't have to bitch because the rest of the world, save the state of Pennsylvania, is doing it for me. No football fan in their right mind believes that win was deserved. Even Skip Bayless from ESPN -- the world's most vocal Seahawk hater -- says Seattle was robbed. This was an un-loseable game for you guys. You had the entire officiating crew in your back pockets and you *still* only managed to win the game by a single phantom holding call. That was a 14 point call, and we haven't even brought up the other 6 officiating atrocities. Oh well, at least it's the Steelers -- a blue-collar team that's hard not to like. If it were the Cowboys, I'd be in treatment right now. It was actually not sIFR at all, and even pre-dated Inman’s IFR by at least two years. It was basically inline Flash files with text… that’s all. And yes, the page is huge and so are all of those images.

As for the Super Bowl, I really don’t have to bitch because the rest of the world, save the state of Pennsylvania, is doing it for me. No football fan in their right mind believes that win was deserved. Even Skip Bayless from ESPN — the world’s most vocal Seahawk hater — says Seattle was robbed. This was an un-loseable game for you guys. You had the entire officiating crew in your back pockets and you still only managed to win the game by a single phantom holding call. That was a 14 point call, and we haven’t even brought up the other 6 officiating atrocities.

Oh well, at least it’s the Steelers — a blue-collar team that’s hard not to like. If it were the Cowboys, I’d be in treatment right now.

]]> Comment on ESPN.com Looking a Bit Pixelated by: Pat http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-40 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:29:36 +0000 http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-40 Maybe not a released version of sIFR, but an early, obtrusive form of it. Consider "this.":http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2003/10/18/2320 I see you chimed in there. No wonder the front page is over 1 MB if they consider "this image":http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2006/0209/photo/caple_134.jpg an efficient use of 36 KB. (!) The Super Bowl was ugly. Nonetheless we made the plays when it counted. I would wear my earplugs if I were you -- the whining coming from the Latte City is unbearable. :) Maybe not a released version of sIFR, but an early, obtrusive form of it. Consider “this.”:http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2003/10/18/2320 I see you chimed in there. No wonder the front page is over 1 MB if they consider “this image”:http://espn.go.com/media/pg2/2006/0209/photo/caple_134.jpg an efficient use of 36 KB. (!)

The Super Bowl was ugly. Nonetheless we made the plays when it counted. I would wear my earplugs if I were you — the whining coming from the Latte City is unbearable. :)

]]> Comment on ESPN.com Looking a Bit Pixelated by: Mike D. http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-39 Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:06:55 +0000 http://leftlane.org/2006/02/09/sifr-less-espncom/#comment-39 Ummm, ESPN.com never used sIFR. And the front page is over a megabyte and much heavier on the Flash than it's ever been. Nice Super Bowl by the way... how Pittsburgh can live with itself after that one, I'll never know. You should donate the trophy to the National Center for the Blind. :) Ummm, ESPN.com never used sIFR. And the front page is over a megabyte and much heavier on the Flash than it’s ever been.

Nice Super Bowl by the way… how Pittsburgh can live with itself after that one, I’ll never know. You should donate the trophy to the National Center for the Blind. :)

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