Comments on: ESPN Motion for Firefox Launched

By: Geof

Geof — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Happy? You bet!

By: SecurityExpert

SecurityExpert — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

According to Mavromatic.com, ActiveX only has one shortcoming.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

http://espn.go.com/motion/download.html?CMP=ILC-Motion_DWNLD_LHN_TextIT says I must have internet explorer... :(

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Jeff,

You are probably clicking a link for the downloadable version of Motion, which is for PC IE. We still need to modify the verbiage on some of those links throughout ESPN.

By: Jafe Mourner

Jafe Mourner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Woohoo! Thanks, Mike!

By: Bacon

Bacon — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Awesome work.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It looks great. Keep up the good work, and keep spreading the Fire. :)

By: Tim Hill

Tim Hill — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nice work looks awesome,

By: Nick Guarracino

Nick Guarracino — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyway, enough of that. Motion is now freely available to all. Happy?

Very happy! This is great news – thanks Mike.

it was only made possible by technology not available in Firefox

So did something change in Firefox that makes ESPN Motion possible now, or did you find a different way to implement it? Last time I checked, ActiveX was not included with my copy of Firefox ;-)

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nick,

Well, yes, things have changed in Firefox over the last year, and it’s much much faster, especially when layering things like video and Flash. It’s still a bit buggy and has some redraw issues which crop up from time-to-time, but its performance is more than acceptable in this regard.

But, yes, video is being delivered in a totally different way to Firefox and Mac users. Motion for Firefox and Mac utilizes Flash to download the video progressively into your browser cache instead of downloading it in the background to a special directory. This is why the video quality is not quite as stellar as with the original version, but if you’re like me, the convenience more than makes up for that.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Mike,
Pretty happy. It would be nice if the espn toolbar worked on firefox instead of only IE.

If you like, we can tweak our firefox toolbar and build one for ESPN.

Thanks,
-pat
pat@firefoxtoolbar.com

By: Blake Scarbrough

Blake Scarbrough — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Now I can completly leave IE behind. Excellent. Nice job. Will these feature be rolled out on all of ABC’s websites?

By: Michael Brown

Michael Brown — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is some awesome technology. I’m not too big into sports, but the potential for this to be used in other mediums is great. Keep up the good work!

By: Anthony Bosio

Anthony Bosio — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m definitely one happy Mac-user and said so when I provided some feedback via the ESPN site. I think the video quality is more than adequate as well. I was surprised by the quality and how well it all worked.

By: Gazzer

Gazzer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks good. Just one question. Why doesn’t ESPN validate though? Most of the 330(!) validation errors seem unnecessary.