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Posted on 01-19-11 05:05:14 AM (last edited by GlitterBerri at 01-25-11 05:07 AM) Link | Quote
A map analysis of the prerenders of FF7, including translations of the Japanese text scattered all over the game.

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-1

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-2

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-3

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-4

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-5

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-6

http://www.glitterberri.com/final-fantasy-vii/map-analysis/map-analysis-part-7

Part 1-7 of 7.
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Posted on 01-20-11 04:20:51 AM Link | Quote
Your site is almost impossible to read because the text is light gray on white. I didn't even realize there was even text under most of the images until I started to suspect something was wrong.

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Posted on 01-20-11 05:58:53 AM (last edited by GlitterBerri at 01-20-11 03:01 AM) Link | Quote
Really? I've never had any complaints in the 2 years I've been running it and have no problem reading it myself. Fuss with your contrast settings, maybe?

Parts 2 and 3 added.
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Posted on 01-20-11 06:50:56 AM Link | Quote
Echoing Gig here. It's not easy to read. Please please darken it.

I can see it, and I can force myself to read it, but I'm not going to strain my eye to do so.

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Posted on 01-20-11 01:54:07 PM Link | Quote
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Yes, please, make text high contrast. There's no reason for it to be that way, especially if it's article content that people are intended to read. Why is this so popular? I'm honestly curious what people are thinking when they make text have shitty contrast like that. But this is an argument for the web 2.0 thread.

As for the content itself, it's kinda neat, I'm just not in to FF7 at all since I haven't played it. The graphics look nice.

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Posted on 01-20-11 03:41:25 PM (last edited by GlitterBerri at 01-20-11 12:50 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by paulguy
Yes, please, make text high contrast. There's no reason for it to be that way, especially if it's article content that people are intended to read. Why is this so popular? I'm honestly curious what people are thinking when they make text have shitty contrast like that.


I clearly don't write articles intending them to be unreadable, so that seems like rather ridiculous speculation.

Again, after 80,000 visitors, I've never had any complaints, even among people who regularly follow the blog. Everyone I've asked now that there appears to be cause for concern have also said that it's easy to read. I wonder why there's a concentration of people on this board who can't see it?

In any case, I changed it. Is that better?
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Posted on 01-20-11 03:49:31 PM Link | Quote
Actually, yes. Yes it is. Thanks for the change.

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Posted on 01-20-11 05:37:09 PM (last edited by Shadic at 01-20-11 02:39 PM) Link | Quote
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Posted on 01-21-11 03:13:33 AM Link | Quote
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Yes, much better.

I'm still curious, though, what goes through a designer's mind when they theme stuff like that. Is it some horrible recommendation they teach in shitty design classes or what? Does accessibility really need to go out the door because of some theoretical design thing that I don't understand? I'm legally blind so this kind of stuff drives me nuts, because it's become so rampant nowadays and I really want to understand why.

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Posted on 01-21-11 03:30:19 AM Link | Quote
I haven't seen a lot of these images in a long time. I love how the "Gateway to Heaven" is just a big hole in the floor. Nice site.
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Posted on 01-21-11 06:14:53 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Shadic
Also it looks like your time/date coding got screwed up somehow for your comments.


Yeah, it's been screwed up forever. If anyone knows how to fix it, let me know. :/

Part 4 is now added above. This one contains a big revelation, so be sure not to scroll by!

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Posted on 01-21-11 08:32:02 AM Link | Quote
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Looks like it isn't being parsed by... hm. The time command, I think. It's just being output as text, it needs to be put through the PHP time() command... or one of the other time to string ones... I forget which.

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Posted on 01-21-11 03:37:16 PM Link | Quote
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string strftime(string format, int timestamp)

Return formatted time given format and timestamp, or current time without if you omit the timestamp.

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Posted on 01-22-11 06:54:50 AM Link | Quote
Thanks for all your advice about fixing the comments, but now we come to part 2 of the problem, which is me having no idea how to implement any of it. :/ Terribly sorry, I'm rather inept at the coding part of things. It's a wonder my site works at all.

Part 5 is now linked at the top!

Originally posted by paulguy
Yes, much better.

I'm still curious, though, what goes through a designer's mind when they theme stuff like that. Is it some horrible recommendation they teach in shitty design classes or what? Does accessibility really need to go out the door because of some theoretical design thing that I don't understand? I'm legally blind so this kind of stuff drives me nuts, because it's become so rampant nowadays and I really want to understand why.


paulguy, I have no trouble reading it and neither did any of the people I asked. It's still only here that I've heard complaints, so I'm not sure that it's a widespread opinion. Other people who design websites with text light enough that visually impaired people can't read it very well are likely also unaware others are having a problem since they don't themselves. Perhaps it's up to you to bring it to their attention, politely.
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Posted on 01-22-11 08:00:18 AM (last edited by Gig at 01-22-11 05:04 AM) Link | Quote
The problem was that she's using qtranslate, an apparently very excellently coded plugin with such amazing functions like this:


/* BEGIN DATE TIME FUNCTIONS */


function qtrans_strftime($format, $date, $default = '', $before = '', $after = '') {
// don't do anything if format is not given
if($format=='') return $default;
// add date suffix ability (%q) to strftime
$day = intval(ltrim(strftime("%d",$date),'0'))
$search = array()
$replace = array()

// date S
$search[] = '/(([^%])%q|^%q)/';
if($day==1||$day==21||$day==31) {
$replace[] = '$2st';
} elseif($day==2||$day==22) {
$replace[] = '$2nd';
} elseif($day==3||$day==23) {
$replace[] = '$2rd';
} else {
$replace[] = '$2th';
}

$search[] = '/(([^%])%E|^%E)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.$day; // date j
$search[] = '/(([^%])%f|^%f)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('w',$date) // date w
$search[] = '/(([^%])%F|^%F)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('z',$date) // date z
$search[] = '/(([^%])%i|^%i)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('i',$date) // date i
$search[] = '/(([^%])%J|^%J)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('t',$date) // date t
$search[] = '/(([^%])%k|^%k)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('L',$date) // date L
$search[] = '/(([^%])%K|^%K)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('B',$date) // date B
$search[] = '/(([^%])%l|^%l)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('g',$date) // date g
$search[] = '/(([^%])%L|^%L)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('G',$date) // date G
$search[] = '/(([^%])%N|^%N)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('u',$date) // date u
$search[] = '/(([^%])%Q|^%Q)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('e',$date) // date e
$search[] = '/(([^%])%o|^%o)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('I',$date) // date I
$search[] = '/(([^%])%O|^%O)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('O',$date) // date O
$search[] = '/(([^%])%s|^%s)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('P',$date) // date P
$search[] = '/(([^%])%v|^%v)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('T',$date) // date T
$search[] = '/(([^%])%1|^%1)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('Z',$date) // date Z
$search[] = '/(([^%])%2|^%2)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('c',$date) // date c
$search[] = '/(([^%])%3|^%3)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.date('r',$date) // date r
$search[] = '/(([^%])%4|^%4)/'; $replace[] = '${2}'.$date; // date U
$format = preg_replace($search,$replace,$format)

$format = str_replace("%%", "%", $format) /* Xkeeper's lame hack */
$format = str_replace("%q", "", $format) /* Your implementation of %q
(and pretty much everything else) is broken. */

return $before.strftime($format, $date).$after;
}



Long story short, for some reason it was always doubling the percent signs, which basically fucked everything else up. I added to small hacks to fix the issue (since I'm really not touching that block of utter nightmares) and... yeah. Seems to work fine, so

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Posted on 01-23-11 06:22:18 AM Link | Quote
Thank you again for the help, Gig!

Part 6 uploaded and linked at the top.
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Posted on 01-25-11 08:08:06 AM Link | Quote
The 7th and final part is now linked at the top. Sorry for the bump, this thread can die a quiet death now.
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Posted on 01-25-11 05:12:31 PM Link | Quote
I haven't said much, but I found it interesting. I wish there was more commentary (it's not much of an analysis, just "here's what the text says"), but it's still neat to see.

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Posted on 01-25-11 05:31:16 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gig
I haven't said much, but I found it interesting. I wish there was more commentary (it's not much of an analysis, just "here's what the text says"), but it's still neat to see.


Haha. =) Well, I noted the things I found interesting, I suppose, and lots of other people added their own observations as well. If you think a map deserves more of a commentary, feel free to expand on something and I'll add it up there.
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