#A33: Hubbard Associates [1978]Kidderminster Town Hall [1900-2008]

FlipC 14 January 2008 The Mad Ranter

"Anyone up for a challenge? Can you provide the present-day photo equivalent? Kudos to you if you can." Honestly some people want the Earth heh. The Swan Centre and as a bonus the Town hall too for Mandy's c1900 photos. Where's my kudos?

Fantastic, amazing, wonderful, 'oh, you shouldn't have', magnificent, superb. Kudos enough?

No seriously I was asking a lot, and it's probably one of those things I would never get around to doing, even with the best intentions. Actually, my wife has a new camera, so we are not sharing mine anymore, so the possibility of me taking these photos has improved.

However, FlipC, you have taken on the challenge and succeeded:

The Swan Centre, Kidderminster [L. J. Lennard|E. T. W. Dennis & Sons Limited]

Technical Note: The above transformation will only work with Level 1 browsers (Microsoft® IE 5.5, IE 6 and IE 7)

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#A31: The Swan Centre, Kidderminer [1999]

Sources:
FlipC (2008); 'The Swan Centre'; Flickr, 14 January 2008

'Cross-browser BlendTrans Filter JavaScript', BrainError dot Net

Comments:

FlipC 15 January 2008 The Mad Ranter

Yay! But an IE only transform? For shame. Check out brainerrors cross-browser transform here. You're looking at the Fade in/out with only one link with some modification, just set the original postcard as a background image in the div and my photo as an initially transparent image over the top, then just change mine back and forth. Not to script heavy, much lighter if you want to risk just using CSS3 opacity, though guess which version of which browser doesn't support it?

Tav 15 January 2008 The Wyre Forest Agenda

Oh no, not this 10 year old rant again. (Well I suppose I did start it!) Let me see... choices... choices... I can either: (1) Write to FireFox Corp. and (others) and ask them to improve their browser to make it level 1 or else I will look elsewhere for another browser. or; (2) Rewrite my code on my site, so making my site inferior (since I'm bowing down to the lowest common denominator). I'll do both! I'll blog about a response to my letter (if I get one), and... Thank you FlipC for this link it looks very good, I'll put into in my todo list. Yeah, I'm surprised Microsoft don't incorporate opacity: in CSS, I guess I will have to write seven more characters in my code: alpha(opacity):

Don Barton 16 January 2008 svr_p_way's photos Galahad's Homepage Slow Food

What on earth are you two computer geeks on about?

FlipC 16 January 2008 The Mad Ranter

@Don: It's the old argument. Every browser in the world says you should write things this way, but Microsoft says you should do it their way. So when creating code you can either write it for every browser except IE, or just IE, or both; and as IE has by far the biggest market share... @Tav: Oh please level 1, level 2; those are Microsoft created codewords for 'supports ActiveX/DirectX' which are Windows only components. What level of CSS does it support, what level of DOM? That filter: alpha(opacity) is really a DirectX call the full title is filter:progid: DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=x) so even if Firefox makes itself 'level 1' it'll still only work in Windows unless they translate it internally to opacity, which you've got to agree is kind of dumb.

Ros Darby 16 January 2008

The picture of the Swan Centre is dated about 1986/7. Fads shut in 1987 and therefore it has to be before then. I worked at Fads (formerly Status and Decormecca) from October 1972 to July 1987 when it shut as Fads. Fads then re-opened in 1989 at Market Street. As I am now Manager of The Swan Centre it seems I have come full circle.

Tav 16 January 2008 The Wyre Forest Agenda

A new commenter, please accept a warm welcome to the 'agenda and I stand humble to actually have the 'Swan Centre Manager' commenting on the 'agenda. Thank you Ros I have been wondering on the date of that postcard. I do have recollections of Fads, but I can't remember Wigfalls. I guess the BL Princess car on display (which must have been a new model) kind of gives the game away on 1999. Since you are the Swan Centre Manager, he woman in the know (as it where), can you answer two burning questions: (1) If the concrete public art shown in the postcard boxed in and protected by that white metal façade? and, (2) do you know who the sculpture/artist of the concrete pattern was?