New OpenTransact site

[Pelle Braendgaard]

Hi guys,
I'm starting to do a lot more work on OpenTransact now and we really
needed a site. So I've added one here:

http://opentransact.github.com/

It still needs a lot of work. In particular the front page needs to be
expanded. Anyone have some good ideas on how we should sell it?

I also added a logo (as you can't be a serious standard without a logo
;-). A bit later we'll do a proper logo competition so think of it as
a place holder.

P

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[Miles Thompson]

Pelle,

It's awesome. Great score getting that domain and I think you've done a good job of getting initial content up there.

By way of constructive criticism (hopefully):
 - was a little bit surprised the way it jumps you out to github site when you click on code, providers or wiki (but that is fairly minor i guess you can always hit the back button). Frames would be ugly... pity you can't put the navigation on github itself..
 - I love the layout, visually and the logo
-  but on first impressions that main quote on the front page is, unfortunately a bit confusing /hard to parse as to what it actually means.. perhaps if it was not in quotes ?

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I dunno but seems to me that it might be better if it was an actual real example (like an instance rather than a template) in quotes for instance
"POST /transactions/usd HTTP/1.1
Content-length: 239

amount=10.00&to=y...@example.com&memo=Milk"

or

OAuth signed HTTP POST {of} {to}, {amount}, {memo} to {asset url}. From account inferred by oauth_token

A standard in 139 characters (but not in quotes).

Just thinking out loud. Most of all just saying i think its great. I'm keen to use this sucker for a project i have in mind this year.

miles

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[Paul Dumais]

Hi Pelle,

Great site! Sadly doesn't work in my chrome browser on ubuntu linux
(Firefox ok) - there is no response to the browser.

Paul

[Pelle Braendgaard]

Strange. Is it still doing this? It works fine in my Chrome on Mac.

P

[Pelle Braendgaard]

Good point. I'm gradually replacing the top links with internal links
and have moved others to the footer.

I've also added a new Use Cases page which explains how it works visually.

http://www.opentransact.org/usecases.html

I really like your idea of the HTTP post and your explanation below.
As the standard is simple we should highlight everything with HTTP
examples. Let me work on formatting it. Have to work on client stuff
the rest of the day but will try in the morning.

I will also add HTTP examples for the use cases.

Also if anyone is planning or operating a site with OpenTransact
support can you please email me privately a screenshot, video embed
code (optional) and a paragraph or two and I will add it to the site.

P

[Pelle Braendgaard]

Actually I ended up adding the http example. Thanks Miles for the idea.

http://www.opentransact.org/

P

[Paul Dumais]

Yes, still not working on my chrome browser. It could be a problem on
my end. It seems like the browser is waiting for a response. I'll have
a look at the page source to see if I can get it to load.

[Ryan Fugger]

I can confirm opentransact.org won't open on Chrome for Linux, but
works fine in Firefox. I've filed a bug with Chrome:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=31771

Ryan

[Paul Dumais]

Ok, narrowed it down. It's a javascript problem. Works with javascript disabled.
Bug reported here:
http://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/unreads#issue/34
which refers to a bug in the chrome browser for Linux here:

http://codereview.chromium.org/515060

[Pelle Braendgaard]

Thanks for figuring it out. I was mainly using modernizr for enabling
html5 elements in ie. I will make it an IE only include for now.

P

[Pelle Braendgaard]

Paul,
I have fixed it now. Could you confirm to me it works. Also if someone
has access to IE could they let me know it works? I'm using the new
html5 tags like footer/header/nav etc that make the html so much
cleaner.

P

[Dante-Gabryell Monson]

"  It could be a problem on my end."

I have the same experience - does not seem to load - then Paul when running it via Chrome on Ubuntu.

[Paul Dumais]

Pelle,

Page loads, the code snippet doesn't fit now though. See attached
screenshot. Also, don't forget the use cases page.

[Paul Dumais]

doh, wrong screenshot. See attached.

[Josef Davies-Coates]

Is it just me or does this sentence on Spec page not make any sense? :P

"I protocol should use simple form based parameter encoding as it
OAuth supports it well and it is supported by every single programming
language out there."

Josef.

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[Pelle Braendgaard]

You are absolutely right. I will update that shortly. Thanks for
pointing it out.

P

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