454847 - Fishcam really dead now

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Karsten Düsterloh]

Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F now ends up on <http://netscape.aol.com/>, which definitely isn't what we want. 

So we have at least three possibilities:
- Drop it:
  Very easy fix, thus setting blocking2+.
- Link Wikipedia's <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brine_shrimp>:
  Page is a bit scrawny, but better than the current state.
- Link to some SeaMonCam or SeaMonkey related page of an aquarium or
  university institute or some such.

Suggestions?


Related:
- Bug 344194 fixed it the last time it broke.
- Bug 290235 wants a Mozilla-wide solution.

Comment 1

[Marco Perez [:mpk]]

We could fix the URL again (http://cgi.netscape.com/fishcam/ still works),
but that won't last either, so why not move on? I agree that showing a
page from aol.com should be avoided, so dropping it as a short term fix
doesn't seem a bad idea.

Any kind of live webcam at the offices of the Mozilla Foundation (or the
Mozilla Corporation) would be great, be it a fishcam or not. I'm pretty
sure some ingenious and creative spirits at the headquarter or among the
friends around the world would come up with some fantastic ideas. :-)

Comment 2

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Unless someone creates & maintains a page at m.o or seamonkey-project.org, I think we should drop it.

Comment 3

[Marco Perez [:mpk]]

Attachment: removes the amazing fishcam from seamonkey (comm-central)

If nobody's objecting then let's remove it until someone implement's a great
new easter egg. But don't let us advertise AOL... ;-)

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

Looks like Lou, who originally added the Fishcam easter egg is about to set up a new one and has the shiny fishcam.com domain for it! See http://home.kairo.at/?d=b&i=55&m=b&f.o=lp&f.t=5243#p5261

Comment 5

[asmpgmr]

I vote to remove this and be done with it, it isn't important and it causes an error in the error console:

Warning: Key event not available on some keyboard layouts: key="f" modifiers="control,alt"
Source File: chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul
Line: 0

Also on Windows, Ctrl-Alt-letter key sequences are generally used for desktop shortcuts.

Comment 6

[Benoît]

I vote to fix any errors and restore the Amazing Fishcam!

Comment 7

[Robert Kaiser]

Attachment: use the new fishcom.com instead

Lou Montulli, the original creator of the amazing fishcam, has set up a new fishcam site at http://www.fishcam.com/ and I think that's the best option we have and probably can have.

Comment 8

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Why not use emerging <video> tag for this? :)

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Why not use emerging <video> tag for this? :)

You probably need to ask Lou about that, we're not in the business of actually setting up the cam and the fishtank, we're only linking the easter egg to it...

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

Pushed as http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/04fe5a9c7432

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

Add fixed-seamonkey2.0 to make it go away from "unfixed blockers" query

Comment 12

[Robert Kaiser]

Adding fixed-seamonkey2.0 to make it go away from "unfixed wanted" query