Difference between revisions of "To Do"

Revision as of 16:19, 19 August 2011

Has to be done

• add card image tooltips to the names of the cards that appear in the relationships (as it is done in the list of cards) ValterAlves 17:06, 5 July 2011 (WEST)

done.

now I should do the same regarding the names of the patterns in the description

and make them bold to (try it, at least)

• make sure everything is behaving properly in the different browsers and platforms ValterAlves 17:06, 5 July 2011 (WEST)

Did not test yet these OS: Android, Windows Mobile/Phone

IE: inline videos are not starting

IE: videos in fancybox are not working (too slow to load and then, once closed, it seems they play again or something like that (we hear the sound of a replay))

IE: opacity of overlay buttons is not working (hover buttons appear all the time)

The easiest may be not to add them at all if(IE)

Fancybox with videos is not behaving correctly

• Include ranking and commenting mechanisms

Accountable or anonymous?

• Videos: I'm opting by quicktime pluging with H.264 videos. This option as advantages but it is show problematic in some respects. Youtube is an alternative but it also as some drawbacks in this particular context. This is something I will need to evaluate a eventually change, site wide.

What about a third alternative? Google videos?

• iPhone:Fancybox with big (how big?) images fail to load...
• poster frames for videos are displayed so they fir the viewport, which does not respect the their aspect ratio.
• in the site we are adopting using British English (well, mostly) whist in the cards we are using American English. That needs to be thought of.

Wish List (and stuff that needs a second thought)

• would it be interesting to link names of Games to some page with some more information about the game?

(this would be done automatically, by parsing the names of the games in the source pages)

individual pages, or a common page with a section for each game

what information would be given regarding each game?

it is important to keep in mind that this is not a site about the games... So the included information should not tend towards a game description

but it could give some pointers for readers to be able to take contact with a game should they not know it

perhaps: the official site, its wikipedia page (other alternative?), the game's own wiki, should it exist

the list of examples from that game that we included in this site

hmmm... what would be the point?

it might have as well other examples from the game, which we have but did not included in the card's pages (other instances of a same example, unselected examples, ...)

• Should links to Cards be distinctive from those to other things (namely in the cards' descriptions)?

That would give some more freedom to use alternate forms of the names of the cards (e.g., just 'captions' instead of 'Subtitles and Captions' if that is proper in a particular sentence)

On the other hand, we should stick to the 'original' card name, in order to augment memorability and to avoid ambiguities

• in the cards'/patterns' pages: insert frequency and or confidence indicators (possibly from the same source as Most Frequently Used

maybe supporting in-place user input too

• pick random card (link like the one that appears in the side bar, but restricted to the cards space)
• Change the height of Fancybox according to the aspect ratio of each video, so that there is no need for the vertical bars
• Detect iPhone and, when playing embed movies, serve a version bigger then the 250px (480px or even 640px)

Although that will make them slower to load...

And, if we serve the 640x when opening the embed, then it will be equal to the overlayed (which is 640px and cannot be bigger)

(Maybe I should deactivate the overlayed movie feature, if it is a iPhone, to start with)

• Include links (namely for other cards/patterns) in captions of movie thumbnails
• iPhone: to date Fancyboxes with videos open/launch in a position that does takes in account the current scroll/zoom of the page, which implies that it may appear in a place out of sight (a demand scrolling to be found). It would be nice to fix this.
• Some games have more than one distinctive explorations of a same pattern. Instead of selecting one two show, it would be interesting to be able to scroll among them in the same viewport.

This would also be pertinent in those games we are presenting more exhaustively

Captions would have to change too... A consequently the size of the box...