myspace.com programming

[PAlexC]

I can tell you that their music player is fun to play around with, and that it was published without "protect from import" enabled.

[jAQUAN]

Hey j, check some of this out
http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/myspace.shtml

hope it helps.

Yeah I found that too, kinda why I started this thread, I'd like to find something more descriptive.

[Ghostgirl705]

ROFL you guys crack me up.

With that being said, Use straight css, easier and clearer. You have to use all the right classes with the myspace css codes.

text, .spacetext, .redtext, .redtext8, .redbtext, .redtext12b,
.bluebtext, .redbtext, .utext, .orangetext, .orangetext2, .orangetext15,
.lightbluetext8, .bluetext8, .whitetext7, .whitetext12, .whitetext15,
.blacktext15, .blacktext13, .blacktext12, .blacktext12nb, .blacktext10,
.blacktext10nb, .blacktext7, .footer, .skip, .blacktext14bu


I think that is most of the text ones of them

[jAQUAN]

Right, but like, wtf part of the page does .orangetext15 effect.
Plus there's styles like .contentTable that I had to stumble on. Where the heck is the myspace manual?

[Genesis F5]

I think this officially proves that Jupitermedia needs to purchase MySpace immediately and let us fix it.

Either that, or the folks over at MySpace need to hire some of us. I've sent numerous messages reporting bugs / problems with the site.

Their markup makes me cry. It's no wonder why their server is slow.

[WannaBe_80z]

or the fact that 40 million refresh whoring little kids are on it daily....multiple times daily?

and they have myspace for bands that stream music, and now a film subsection.

I am impressed at how much thier servers handle. I don't even wanna know how much bandwdith they go through !!!! eek!

ps: and jupiter media can go right ahead and buy it right back from fox for the 300+ whatever million they paid for it. That tom guy was a genius.

[admedia]

I noticed it seems really slow... must be hosted at the same facility as flashkit.


I saw some lady on the news today say

"Myspace.com is just a filthy whore hole"

[argonauta]

if you think myspace is sick, http://www.mydeathspace.com/deaths.aspx is sicker :P
I don't see the point....documenting the deaths of people that have a myspace account?

[indivision]

its probably slow now but their speed was what originally won out over friendster and other similar sites. they did this partially with database optimization (limitation really) like not polling for the complete relation-paths between users and by having something like 400 servers.

[catbert303]

ROFL you guys crack me up.

With that being said, Use straight css, easier and clearer. You have to use all the right classes with the myspace css codes.

text, .spacetext, .redtext, .redtext8, .redbtext, .redtext12b,
.bluebtext, .redbtext, .utext, .orangetext, .orangetext2, .orangetext15,
.lightbluetext8, .bluetext8, .whitetext7, .whitetext12, .whitetext15,
.blacktext15, .blacktext13, .blacktext12, .blacktext12nb, .blacktext10,
.blacktext10nb, .blacktext7, .footer, .skip, .blacktext14bu


I think that is most of the text ones of them

Hooray for semantic class names!

I'd recommend using

html {
  display: none;
}

[Genesis F5]

But then you won't be able to hit the submit button.

[Ghostgirl705]

But then you won't be able to hit the submit button.

That is the bane of profile editing.
.contentTable = the contact buttons

And there is no "manual" that I know of. Just trial and error.

The whole idea is you have to cover everything up then rebuild it.

<style type="text/css">	

		.Table1, .Table2, .contactTable {visibility: hidden; display: none;}
		div div table table td {visibility: hidden; display: none;}
		table tr td.text span.nametext {visibility: hidden; display: none;}
</style>

That will get rid of all the tables...and um... the ads too (which is against rules) *mental note to fix that*

[Genesis F5]

I'll have to try that. I came up with something similar a while ago but when I tried to submit it, the parser appends a "do not block our ads" to the end of the string so it won't recognize it as being an applied style. The only difference was mine kept the ad at the top:

body{background-color:FFFFFF;}
td.text table img {visibility:hidden; height:0px; width:0px;}
td.text table a {font-size:0pt;}
body table tbody tr td{background-color:333333;}
body table tr {visibility:hidden;}
body table tr td div{visibility:visible;}
body div table tbody tr td{visibility:visible;}

Also, I don't know how many times I've contacted Tom and the others there about an annoying bar that runs across the screen towards the bottom. Again, someone who doesn't know what they're doing didn't anchor the copyright table to the main div so it stretches 100% across the screen.

I've also asked them to skip the "preview section" in safe mode so if you do have intrusive CSS it won't stop you from submitting your design.

Designing / updating / previewing in MySpace has become such a nightmare I've saved a blank profile to my HD so all I have to do it edit it there. It's so much faster, but you have to remember to check the design with MySpace first to make sure they'll allow certain things.

[jAQUAN]

I'm starting to get it, I added a ton of clickable thumbnails to his space last night.
Right now I'd be happy if I could just change the x, y, width, and height of.... everything.

[gesteves]

Hey jAQUAN, try this Firefox extension: X-Ray. It lets you see the tags on a page without looking at the source code. It doesn't show table tags, but it might be useful for seeing everything else.

[jAQUAN]

Wow, that is veeery helpful. It's gonna take alot of the guess work out.

[Genesis F5]

Check out Catbert's CSS Inspector: here. I use that and it works wonders.

[jAQUAN]

Man I need to start a del.icio.us page to keep track of all these cool plugins. Thats going to help a great deal as well.

[Asclepeos]

myspace: bought for 580 million dollars
facebook: offered 750 million, declined saying that it's worth 2 billion

stem cell research, after eight years of dealing with bull**** politics: 200 million dollars grant from government.

people disgust me.