h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ictonian - I'm sure we're both singing off the same hymn sheet

I take your point though that testing need not all be negative. In general, formal alpha test results are either black or white - the test either passes, or it fails with a reason given why it has been failed.

Beta- is less formally-structured (but not unstructured I hope) and can, and I guess you'd argue should, include positive feedback.

Call it a score draw

h2g2 please

Jimcracker7 has asked me to put some feedback on how he sees Beta on his tv digibox.

Where on pc you can see your personal picture on the top right hand corner but Jimcracker7 which he has added his picture to Beta and see it on the bottom lefthand corner on tv digibox.

For anyone who has never seen the picture and click this link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/beta/U210898

All the Jimcracker7 won't be on for a while, when the Beta comes in force, he will be lurking somewhere, watching from home.

Kat

h5ringer -
Yeah, I'm probably just nitpicking cos I'm writing the bloomin things at the moment and I *hate* tests and test plans with a passion. Especially when they come back with 'It doesnt work' - yeah? And? In what specific way does it not work? under what conditions? And exactly what did you do to produce the failure?

just venting I think

Maybe it would work better if it was bluer.

it should if the words I've been muttering at it had any effect
Either that or the users would have turned into smurfs.

Would blue users be a positive development?

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This will become even more critical if H2G2 has to be in capital letters. Those researchers who only check in every year or two will think we've gone belly up, and they'll just leave us for good.
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Surely the bbc search isn't case sensitive?

No, it isn't.

Strangely, the new beta url is case sensitive, and it only accepts h2g2, not H2G2. I've reported it as a problem.

"Strangely, the new beta url is case sensitive..."

Which, IIRC, means it's running on UN*X/Linux servers, rather than Window$. That can only be a good thing.

Why is that a problem?

If the new design guidelines mandate that everything uses "H2G2", but the url only uses "h2g2" then technically that is a problem.

It's not a problem that affects *us*, but it's a problem nonetheless.

I still don't understand why it's a problem. Is that a technical issue, or a style one? I thought the standard for URLs was lower case. Having H2G2 in upper case in the URL would be a complete pain in the arse.

It might be easier for some users if both were allowed, just in case.

Because the change to officially upper case H2G2 onsite is likely to cause confusion?

Alabaster accepts h2g2, H2G2, and dna but not DNA.

If you put BBC in the URL it converts back to bbc.

Kea, it is a problem because some user might mistakenly type H2G2 in the URL and be confused when it didn't work. So I've asked that the system should accept either, which isn't very hard to organise.

"Surely the BBC search isn't case sensitive?" [kea]

You are probably right, but I had a slightly different concern on my mind. Some people like to *see* an icon for what they're looking for. Granted, a lot of sites have menu boxes (or whatever the technical term is), whereby they click on the arrow beside the box, and the whole menu drops down. Not everyone can figure those out. Those who can't are lost to us, because they don't see an icon to click on, they may not understand that the menu box has what they're looking for, and they see so much clutter on the screen that they can't easily find the search box. I just want to make it easy for people to go to the BBC site, find H2G2 to click on, and ujoin us, quickly, easily, and without having to think about search boxes and branching searches, etc.

h2g2 please, you know its the only way...................


RJR (the living proof)

I remember complaining when it first went from H2G2 to h2g2 on the site. The logo was always a lowercase logotype, of course.