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Subject:	Re: FreeNetnames comes up trumps!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.publish
Date:	Fri, 3 Dec 1999 19:57:35 GMT
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Richard Franks <spontificus@__nospam__yahoo.com> wrote in message news:FM4xFv.LAw@lugnet.com... > In lugnet.loc.uk, Huw Millington writes: > > I believe I have sorted all the Netscape anomalies, except for one - URLS > > can't contain spaces, which I'll fix tomorrow. > > > > Please LMK if it looks OK for you now. > > It looks really spiffy! I *really* like the random set idea! The hitbox • add is > submerged at the bottom of my window though (Netscape 4.6), ie - the • bottom is > going off the bottom of the screen. I think it only appears if you run at 1024x768 currently. It sounds like you are running 800x600. > > I'm curious though why it duplicates a lot of the pause database - is • there a > reason or is it for the fun of it? (A valid reason as any!) > Or is it to show the alternate design interface, which works really well btw! 'Because I can' :-) Just for the hell of it, really. While I respect Pause as an information source, I don't find the interface to my liking. A lot of people say they like the thubnailed list presentation, which Pause does not offer. Also another design goal was to have high quality scans of instruction covers for all the images - some of the Pause ones are from catalogues, which I don't like. About 95% of non-promotional sets have been scanned by myself or Grahame from paper copies we own, or taken fron Brickshelf. > > Oh, the new city highway set (6600) number conflicts with an earlier town • set - > I was wondering why you had instructions for it already! Oops. I'll corect that. Huw

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		Thumbnail images (was: Re: FreeNetnames comes up trumps!)
(...) Me neither -- it's just a placeholder...but it's getting kind of stale, as you point out. :-) (...) Wow, I didn't know that thumbnails were such a desired feature! When someone goes through all the trouble of implementing something like that (...) (24 years ago, 3-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.database)

		Brickset - A 'new' online database
"Huw and Grahame's LEGO set database" has now officially become BrickSet. This is an alternative to Pause and should be considered as a second-opinion rather than a duplication of information due to the fact the database has been independently (...) (24 years ago, 4-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.publish, lugnet.announce)

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		Re: FreeNetnames comes up trumps!
(...) It looks really spiffy! I really like the random set idea! The hitbox add is submerged at the bottom of my window though (Netscape 4.6), ie - the bottom is going off the bottom of the screen. I'm curious though why it duplicates a lot of the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.publish)

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