To give credit when it's due, the idea for the video was Sampy's and Sampy's alone. He's really good with this stuff. Did anyone notice the reference to C10 and C8?
eagle wrote:
I still can't sign-in.....
For anyone who can't sign in still please send mail to
ch9@microsoft.comfiguerres wrote:
BRAVO!!
I know I can be harsh at times, I know how hard developing is...
first impression right now is "Good Job Guys!"
one thing though is the Live / Passport login is still not there yet I see.
but the page load / with the throbber is MUCH better.
generaly looks much nicer.
Now if we can get some weekly / bi-weekly updates till it's done.

Thanks, figuerres! We're glad you like what you're seeing.
Windows Live ID support didn't make it into this sprint. It'll get in there eventually for sure.
We will definitely be updating you more on the beta now. What we'd like to do in all our future sprints until C9v4 is done, is do at least one update to the beta every sprint. We may mostly focus on whatever other things we need to do, but want to show progress on C9v4 every sprint if possible.
dentaku wrote:
If you go into a forum you can't see as many posts as you used to in one window because each line in the list takes up way more space now. (does that make sense?)
They're packed together more closely in the old forums but it's not crowded so I can't see why stuff is spaced out so far in the beta forums.
Are you looking at the site in IE? I currently have some CSS problems in IE that are making rows much taller than they're supposed to be. If you look at the site in Firefox or Opera (possibly even Safari) you should see the rows aren't as tall. That said, the rows are going to be a bit taller than in the current site because of us making our templates consistent across the site (the posted by always being under the title that's always the same colors, etc).
biaachmonkie wrote:
The audio is messed up for me in the embeded silverlight player, Silverlight Version: 1.0.20816.0. Its blown out and all staticy, as if the valume was cranked way up and the speakers where blown out. And the audio slider has no effect unless its all the way off.
The wmv stream sounds fine though. This is with XP in Firefox & IE6. Using the integrated audio on my nForce mainboard, and audio is fine in everything else.
Any ideas whats wrong with silverlight?
Your situation sounds specific to your machine, but I don't know what it would be. Did you install a lot of the alphas and betas of Silverlight? I've heard of people having problems with it then. Try uninstalling any version of Silverlight you have on your machine and reinstalling Silverlight 1.0 and let us know if it still doesn't work for you.
yman wrote:
The video looks like one of those creative obscure ads for perfume

You know, the ones where you have no idea what it's about until the last moment - "XXX by XYZ".
That's exactly the point (of ours and the original Halo 3 commercial). Good to know we pulled it off.
