On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Daniel Gruno <[email protected]> wrote: > (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.
You can put me down in the "wow, that's awesome" category. > 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. Given our user community, I think it is fair to assume that everybody has access to a HTML5 capable browser. Furthermore, the specific feature seems to be widely supported: http://caniuse.com/#feat=dragndrop Finally, it seems to me that this page would degrade gracefully; Daniel Shahaf can visit it with JavaScript disabled and he won't have access to the fancy features but he can enter his candidates and click Cast Votes. > Thoughts? Comments? Flames? +1 > With regards, > Daniel. - Sam Ruby
