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Update: These aren't the Dragon Kongs you're looking for. The image elements presented are not related to any Nintendo IP, only to backend processes. Not something to get overly excited about. They don't alienate the fact that something is happening with Retro Studios web though. You can go about your business.
The decrepit and uglesome state of Retro Studios' current website has been a topic for several years. Whenever they have been approached about the subject, they have simply stated they'd rather work on games than web development. In late 2014 however, I received some information from them that they were working on updating/redesigning the website. But 2015 came and went without an update. Per contra, it now seems the site could soon be changing.
On December 6-7 last year, several new files were added to http://retrostudios.com/. These files are no longer available directly from this domain (I believe they were briefly up as part of a test), but were luckily captured by the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive. The Wayback Machine captured 60 image files and one CSS-file (Cascading Style Sheets). These files can be accessed here. Let's take a look at these:
Images:
Most of these are icons in GIF-format, but there are some background files too, and some dealing with Dell SonicWall (security devices) for some reason.
Two of particular interest:
masthd_bgpattern.gif
This is used as a no-repeat header background.
opt_bg.gif
This is used as a background for a popup warning.
The rest
Code
I cannot provide the full contents of the CSS as it's too big, but I will provide a link (feel free to tinker with it, but beware of the formatting applied by Archive.org):
https://web.archive.org/web/20151206192259/http://retrostudios.com/swl_styles-5.0.0-1638059306.css
Here are some excerpts I found interesting:
Overall text is gray (#2E2F33):
Links are blue (#003399):
At least if I'm reading this correctly, someone in web development can perhaps confirm. Alternatively it's the background color that is blue, and if so it's in a much more pale nuance (#C1C8FA).
Who knows, we might be seeing this sooner than later? Nintendo's Third Quarter Earnings Release for FY 2015 is on Feb. 2 (with briefing the day after), and Nintendo World in New York is undergoing reconstruction until Feb. 19 (some have suggested to incorporate an NX related section/material). With what is coming in terms of NX, perhaps an idea for Retro would be to launch their new site and put up a teaser with an "Exclusively for NX" message. Would likely create some discussions. There you have it anyway.
Soon a remnant of the past?
The decrepit and uglesome state of Retro Studios' current website has been a topic for several years. Whenever they have been approached about the subject, they have simply stated they'd rather work on games than web development. In late 2014 however, I received some information from them that they were working on updating/redesigning the website. But 2015 came and went without an update. Per contra, it now seems the site could soon be changing.
On December 6-7 last year, several new files were added to http://retrostudios.com/. These files are no longer available directly from this domain (I believe they were briefly up as part of a test), but were luckily captured by the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive. The Wayback Machine captured 60 image files and one CSS-file (Cascading Style Sheets). These files can be accessed here. Let's take a look at these:
Images:
Most of these are icons in GIF-format, but there are some background files too, and some dealing with Dell SonicWall (security devices) for some reason.
Two of particular interest:
masthd_bgpattern.gif
This is used as a no-repeat header background.
opt_bg.gif
This is used as a background for a popup warning.
The rest
Code
I cannot provide the full contents of the CSS as it's too big, but I will provide a link (feel free to tinker with it, but beware of the formatting applied by Archive.org):
https://web.archive.org/web/20151206192259/http://retrostudios.com/swl_styles-5.0.0-1638059306.css
Here are some excerpts I found interesting:
Code:
/
body, p, td {
font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
color: #2E2F33;
line-height: 15px;
}
a {
color: #003399;
}Overall text is gray (#2E2F33):
Links are blue (#003399):
At least if I'm reading this correctly, someone in web development can perhaps confirm. Alternatively it's the background color that is blue, and if so it's in a much more pale nuance (#C1C8FA).
Code:
/* Some of the small gif images have a 1-pixel border which makes them appear raised up
* slightly when embedded in text. Use this to bring them down to align with the text. */
.textEmbedddedImg {
vertical-align: -1px;
}
Code:
/* keep row heights on FF3 when table height is fixed and limited number of rows are shown -
* FF3 expands the row height to fill the entire table - adding an empty row at the bottom
* of the table with the following class keeps in check FF3's unbridled expansionism.
*/
.swlTable tr.ff3TableFix {
height: 90%;
vertical-align: top;
}
Code:
/* The different widths below are due to the way the scroll bar is implamented
we are keeping these here instead of putting them in the IE css file b/c it
is easier to change the width if both numbers are in the same place. */
/* All browsers accept this, but we are targeting IE with this rule */
div.swlTblContainer table {
margin: 0px 0px;
}
/* All browsers accept this, but we are targeting IE with this rule */
div.swlTblContainer table>tbody {
overflow: auto;
height: auto;
margin: 0px 0px;
overflow-x: hidden;
vertical-align: top;
}
/* Modern browsers accept this (not IE) and we are targetting firefox *
/* seen by ff2, ff3, safari (win), opera */
html>/**/body div.swlTblContainer table {
width: 100%;
margin: 0px 0px;
}
/* Modern browsers accept this (not IE) and we are targetting firefox */
html>/**/body div.swlTblContainer table>tbody { /* seen by ff2, ff3, safari (win), opera */
overflow-y: auto;
height: auto;
margin: 0px 0px;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
