Daniel I poked around on this and you have a wow+awesome+woot from me. I love the new UI. My only legitimate concern is the mapping of this to backend REST services - does your program call the backend Python/Perl Steve code directly?
If so, do you have any thoughts on these REST services I put up on the Steve wiki? http://wiki.apache.org/Steve/SteveRESTAPI Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 9:01 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: An idea for an interactive UI for Steve board votes >(sent from wrong address at first, here goes...) > >HI folks, >I've been wondering for some time if it wasn't possible to make board >voting a bit less stressful. >As it is right now, you have to mentally keep a note of letters and >their corresponding names and how that all adds up to a weird string you >are typing into a text field - it can get a bit confusing, especially >when you suddenly change your mind and want to rearrange things. > >So I came up with an interactive UI for managing those sort of votes, >where you can drag'n'drop candidates onto a ballot (as many as you like, >of course) and then rearrange that ballot as you see fit with your >mouse. Not only will i display the candidates in a more friendly manner, >it will also conform to the old Steve methods and generate an STV string >for voting. I've been working with Jim to get some extra features into >it, and it's starting to look real nice. > >You can see a demo with fake names at http://asfcloud.com/steve.html >I have a patch for the perl script so that everything - sans the >statement data - will work out of the box. > >To get to the point; Is this something we would want to implement, maybe >showcase at the next annual meeting? The feedback I've gotten has been >ranging from "I like it" to "wow, that's awesome", so I think we could >really help some folks if we could get this implemented. > >It's tested and should work with the latest versions of FireFox, Chrome, >Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc (anything that will do HTML5). >You can see a patch to cast-vote.pl at https://paste.apache.org/p/n1IU >although it will also require the support files (JS, CSS, PNGs) to work >properly. > >Thoughts? Comments? Flames? > >With regards, >Daniel.
