Screenshots - Time?

[rpgdirectory]

How long does it take screenshots to update? I've been doing it manually, but how long does the queue normally take?

Also, we're getting a lot of really weird screenshots when we press fetch screenshot. A lot of popular website designs now use CSS3 and the renderer doesn't seem to have it. So it only captures a tiny table or a background not what the website looks like.

For example: http://topsites.rpg-directory.com/screens/manticorerising.b1.jcink.com_med.jpg

And this is what the site actually looks like: http://i.imgur.com/53bKj.png

Also we're getting a ton of these: http://i.imgur.com/TEPEy.png

 

[Basti]

If iam not wrong, IE is the only browser you can take screenshots with via an executable setup. Dont know the version though. But we all know IE is buggy, ill ask mark what the actual version is.

 

[Mark]

we use IE8 on windows web server to render the screenshots, what you see is what the website actually looks like in IE8. If the domain lookup fails due to bad DNS then you will see the typical windows error when connection cannot be established. Though we have taken thousands of screenshots and very rarley do I see those, another user has a couple sites that do not resolve from the screenshot server and both of those have mismatched DNS glue.

 

[Mark]

IE9 is now the default browser on the screenshot server, flash player is also installed.

 

[LemoniscooL]

sounds like a good improvement Mark

 

[rpgdirectory]

Thanks Mark! Gonna try these now.

Any chance you guys will do IE 10 in the future? IE 10 passed every web standard test.

Edit: A lot of the IE9 screenshots looks loads better!