Difference between revisions of "To Do"

Revision as of 21:01, 29 September 2011

Peding stuff.

Has to be done

• make sure everything is behaving properly in the different browsers and platforms

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

iPad: looks great

IE: already encountered several problems:

inline videos are not starting

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))

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

iPad/iPhone and possibly other touch screen devices:

the play button over the video thumbnails does not make sense and requires an extra (meaningless) touch -- I shoud test the platform and not show the button in these cases

• Some videos suffered some weird aspect ration transformation during scaling. I have to correct and re-upload them.
• add card image tooltips in the names of the patterns in each card's description section?

may be too much (graphically heavy)

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

• Include ranking and commenting mechanisms
• iPhone:Fancybox with big (how big?) images fail to load...
• British/American English. I believe I'm using British English but I "realise" that I could say "realize" and it would still be British (right?). Yet the speller in suggesting me the former (should double check this and possibly try another one British English speller).
• Old images with QR-Code, including the logo, need to be updated (in same cases they should be hacked to always point to the same page)

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

• 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...

• Printable output of the all site