Web TV

Hello list,

Does anyone out there in Miva Land have any tips for optimising a Merchant
site for Web TV or, come to that, whether it is actually worth the effort?

John Lodge
http://marinestore.co.uk

Web TV



Well, I wouldn't exactly design the whole store around WebTV, but going
light on the Javascript, keeping font sizes fairly large, and not using
complex or pixel-width tables which could interfere with WebTV's formatting
ought to make things much easier on WebTV users. I don't think style sheets
work with WebTV either, but I'm not sure on that.

LD

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>From: "John Lodge" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [mru] Web TV
>Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 4:36 PM
>

> Hello list,
>
> Does anyone out there in Miva Land have any tips for optimising a Merchant
> site for Web TV or, come to that, whether it is actually worth the effort?
>
> John Lodge
> http://marinestore.co.uk
>
>

Web TV



I don't know if it's worth the effort to design with WebTV compatibility as
a very high priority, but according to their web site, they do support
Javascript and a bit of CSS. You could check your site's log files to see
if you get a lot of hits from WebTV browsers. If this helps, in the last
two months, only 0.22% of my site's users have been on WebTV.

Here's a link.

http://developer.webtv.net/

You can download their WebTV Viewer there as well so you can test your site
on your own computer without a WebTV box.


Andy Leitner
Lumberjack Distribution, Inc.
www.lumberjack-online.com

> From: "Miva@JanHagara" <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:51:46 -0500
> To: John Lodge <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [mru] Web TV
>
> Well, I wouldn't exactly design the whole store around WebTV, but going
> light on the Javascript, keeping font sizes fairly large, and not using
> complex or pixel-width tables which could interfere with WebTV's formatting
> ought to make things much easier on WebTV users. I don't think style sheets
> work with WebTV either, but I'm not sure on that.
>
> LD
>
> ----------
>> From: "John Lodge" <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [mru] Web TV
>> Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 4:36 PM
>>
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> Does anyone out there in Miva Land have any tips for optimising a Merchant
>> site for Web TV or, come to that, whether it is actually worth the effort?
>>
>> John Lodge
>> http://marinestore.co.uk
>>
>>

Web TV



I was asked to look into adapting a site for WebTV a while back, and I of
course asked why. The reason was that it was for a retirement community that
had 50% of their users were using WebTV. So if your market it is the over 70
crowd, you might need it.

>From: Andy Leitner <[email protected]>
>To: Merchant Users <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: [mru] Web TV
>Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 18:37:59 -0400
>
>I don't know if it's worth the effort to design with WebTV compatibility as
>a very high priority, but according to their web site, they do support
>Javascript and a bit of CSS. You could check your site's log files to see
>if you get a lot of hits from WebTV browsers. If this helps, in the last
>two months, only 0.22% of my site's users have been on WebTV.
>
>Here's a link.
>
>http://developer.webtv.net/
>
>You can download their WebTV Viewer there as well so you can test your site
>on your own computer without a WebTV box.
>
>
>Andy Leitner
>Lumberjack Distribution, Inc.
>www.lumberjack-online.com
>
> > From: "Miva@JanHagara" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 16:51:46 -0500
> > To: John Lodge <[email protected]>, [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [mru] Web TV
> >
> > Well, I wouldn't exactly design the whole store around WebTV, but going
> > light on the Javascript, keeping font sizes fairly large, and not using
> > complex or pixel-width tables which could interfere with WebTV's
>formatting
> > ought to make things much easier on WebTV users. I don't think style
>sheets
> > work with WebTV either, but I'm not sure on that.
> >
> > LD
> >
> > ----------
> >> From: "John Lodge" <[email protected]>
> >> To: <[email protected]>
> >> Subject: [mru] Web TV
> >> Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2001, 4:36 PM
> >>
> >
> >> Hello list,
> >>
> >> Does anyone out there in Miva Land have any tips for optimising a
>Merchant
> >> site for Web TV or, come to that, whether it is actually worth the
>effort?
> >>
> >> John Lodge
> >> http://marinestore.co.uk
> >>
> >>

Web TV



The best way is to check it out by downloading WebTV viewer
and see how your store looks go to:

http://developer.webtv.net/design/tools/viewer/


>Hello list,
>
>Does anyone out there in Miva Land have any tips for optimising a Merchant
>site for Web TV or, come to that, whether it is actually worth the effort?
>
>John Lodge
>http://marinestore.co.uk
>
>