A New iWeb 08 Problem

Question

Alright, so here we are in iWeb '08.
Things happened, things have been fixed... but one problem remains:
On the top of the page it lists: Blog Summary Widget Blog Summary Widget
on the bottom...
# Exception: ReferenceError
# Message : Can't find variable: BlogSummaryShared
# File : BlogSummary.js, Line:55
# Exception: TypeError
# Message : Undefined value
# File : BlogSummary.js, Line:200
# Exception: ReferenceError
# Message : Can't find variable: BlogSummaryShared
# File : BlogSummary.js, Line:55
# Exception: TypeError
# Message : Undefined value
# File : BlogSummary.js, Line:200
I can't for the life of me figure out what this means, I've gone through the code and everything seems to be pointing in the right direction. Has anyone else seen this? The weird part is that everything is actually working fine (the summary is correct, the dates, the links).
www.mcbya.net (go to the "blog" page)

Answer 1

Hello elh72,
elh72 wrote:
i.e. image shadowing, mirroring etc., but when I implement these features, things load slooooow.
iWeb features like shadow and reflection do not alter the object they are applied to (Don't make them bigger in file size).
It's a piece of code telling the browser to show these features.
class tinyText reflection
class tinyText shadow
This process is done on your computer after the browser received this instruction.
Not all browsers are equal in performance.
Or sometimes it even can be that one or more background processes on the computer start draining resources just when you wanted to see that web page. (ex sync or backup over internet)
When we talk about loading an iWeb web page there are 3 things to keep in mind:
- internet download speed : how big in size are all objects in the page ?
- how well does the browser read and understand the code ?
- how many additional supporting applications have to run in the background to handle specific content ?
As Roddy pointed out : a clean welcome page with one or more small (file size) graphics will benefit most from optimisation.
But : The more content (the bigger file size) to download, the less you'll benefit from code optimisation.
So, test and adapt.
And keep in mind that unless you know what computer / internet speed / browser all your visitors use ... you'll have to make a guess. If don't like guessing, try Google Analytics (it's free) to find out all about your visitor capabilities.
IE still has a big world wide share but maybe 80% of your visitors don't use it...
Kind regards,
Leo