[backstage] BBC iPad application usability

[Brian Butterworth]

The Lord Jakob Nielsen has tested the iPad for usability and found it
wanting of Affordances .

Of the BBC iPad application:

"Unfortunately, apps aimed at browsing, such as... BBC do not provide a
search box on the iPad.

Several users had trouble finding the health or the sports section of BBC:
those topics unfortunately were accessible only in landscape mode... the
within-page navigation bar is transformed into a left-side panel."

http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/ipad/

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Re: [backstage] A Five year retrospective

[Brian Butterworth]

On 10 May 2010 16:18, Soulla Stylianou  wrote:

> Jon/Phil great stories.
>
> can anyone trump?
>

I once went to IBC in Amsterdam and back with a friend's passport.  I only
realised it wasn't mine when I went for a pre-flight coffee.  The security
people only checked that I had a passport, and at the gate the flight
attendant was doing training and the trainee was checking the tickets and
the other staffers passports, not that they were in the same name (and yes,
this was after 911).  At Schiphol, again the check was for the passport, not
the travel document name.  On returning to the UK, all I had to do was fill
in a form at passport control.

Another time I lost my passport between the hotel and airport in Barcelona.
 It turned out if you went to the police station next to the airport,and
filled in a A4 form, someone just rubber stamped it and the airport let you
get on the plane with no check on your actual identity.  They probably try
harder these days.


>
> Soulla
>
>
> On 10 May 2010 15:57, Phil Lewis  wrote:
>
>> I managed to get into a private corporate champagne buffet at InfoSec
>> Europe/London a couple of years ago by just speaking on my mobile while
>> I walked past the security reception. Wouldn't be quite so funny except
>> that the reception was for invited CISSP members only and I wasn't a
>> member or invited. The champagne always tastes better this way.
>>
>> - Phil Lewis
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:14 +0100, Soulla Stylianou wrote:
>> > fantastic story. Made me giggle. Great. How long ago was that? What
>> > did you come to see?
>> > Wonder if anyone can better it.
>> >
>> > Soulla
>> >
>> > On 6 May 2010 12:59, Jon Knight  wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 4 May 2010, Soulla Stylianou wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> hmm. I could see a challenge in the offing if it wasn't likely to
>> cause
>> > >> security breaches. How far can one person go on either
>> > >>
>> > >> a) a bbc backstage lanyard
>> > >> b) a bbc backstage t-shirt.
>> > >
>> > > No BBC connection but a mate and I once blagged our way into a show at
>> the
>> > > NEC with a walkie talkie, a large cable crimping tool and a reel of
>> old
>> > > thick Ethernet cable.  He walked ahead looking official and "chatting"
>> on
>> > > the walkie talkie whilst I plodded along behind with the tool in hand
>> and
>> > > the cable slung over my shoulder.  Security held the barrier open for
>> us and
>> > > we just smiled and nodded as we walked through... :-)
>> > >
>> > > The best bit was the look one the face of one of the "barcode wander"
>> who
>> > > frequent such shows when he realised we had no barcodes for him to
>> scan and
>> > > thus no way for him to send us pointless spam. :-) :-)
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Re: [backstage] iPad and iPlayer

[Paul Webster]

While the method below is still working fine - it remains a bit of a pain to 
use.
Any chance that someone in BBC could make the change that I suggested nearly a 
month ago - namely to add the iPad as an
alias for the iPhone (user-agent strings below).
If BBC makes special format for iPad in the future then fine ... simply remove 
the alias at that point.

Paul Webster

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:34:42 +0100, you wrote:

>Ah - good idea.
>I guess that means that the Apple webkit is statically linked - so it picks up 
>the iPhone version.
>Just tried it by using the iPhone Facebook app - and became a "fan" of one of 
>the BBC iPlayer pages ... which has a link
>in the info section. Worked well.
>
>
>Paul
>
>On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:11:26 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>If you use an iPhone app with a built in browser ("Files" works well for me), 
>>you can access the iPhone iPlayer on the iPad.  It looks reasonably good in 
>>pixel-doubled mode.
>>
>>Jamie.
>>
>>On 15 Apr 2010, at 12:33, Paul Webster paul-at-dabdig.com |BBC Lists/Example 
>>Allow| wrote:
>>
>>> Ok - I admit it ... I have one.
>>> Any chance of adding iPad Safari user-agent to the list of things that look 
>>> like an iPhone so that iPlayer works?
>>> 
>>> Here are examples:
>>> iPad:
>>> Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) 
>>> AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4
>>> Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10
>>> 
>>> iPhone:
>>> Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) 
>>> AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0
>>> Mobile/7E18 Safari/528.16
>>> 
>>> I realise that it could be optimised for the display characteristics - but 
>>> right now it is useless because BBC site asks
>>> for Flash.
>>> 
>>> Paul Webster
>>> 
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[backstage] BBC World Cup video

[Kieran Kunhya]

I see that the new World Cup site is up: 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/video/

Is the new 6mbit 1024x576 VP6 video (why VP6 not H.264?) on the first page 
going to be the standard for World Cup video?

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RE: [backstage] BBC World Cup video

[John O'Donovan]

Hi Kieran - no, this is not the standard we will be using. 

The video is being changed to a standard format soon as it looks like it
has been uploaded in the wrong format in error...

Cheers, 
   
John O'Donovan
Chief Technical Architect

BBC Future Media & Technology (Journalism)
BC3 C1, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London

http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/


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Subject: [backstage] BBC World Cup video

I see that the new World Cup site is up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/video/

Is the new 6mbit 1024x576 VP6 video (why VP6 not H.264?) on the first
page going to be the standard for World Cup video?

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[backstage] android ahead of iphone in US

[Vladimir Harman]

Fyi,

http://www.slashgear.com/android-ahead-of-iphone-os-in-q1-2010-us-smartphone-market-1084950/


  

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[backstage] iPlayer and Nokia N900

[Alex Cockell]

Hi folks, 

Any idea when or if the N900 could have a native iPlayer client?  Just
that Flash is VERY sluggish...

Also - has there been any update on how alternative clients could be
evaluated for whitelisting?  Just that there is a massive open-source
community out there... and I for one would love to be able to use
high-def on Intel Atom-based kit running Ubuntu... to catch iPlayer
stuff...

XBMC would be good to finally get running - how about the Beeb review
the source code... and work with Dink and all that... get it reinstated?


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[backstage] Re: BBC iPad application usability

[Brian Butterworth]

More on this at

http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Usability-expert-faults-iPad-user-interface-calls-it-whacky/1273592091

On 11 May 2010 08:11, Brian Butterworth  wrote:

> The Lord Jakob Nielsen has tested the iPad for usability and found it
> wanting of Affordances .
>
> Of the BBC iPad application:
>
> "Unfortunately, apps aimed at browsing, such as... BBC do not provide a
> search box on the iPad.
>
> Several users had trouble finding the health or the sports section of BBC:
> those topics unfortunately were accessible only in landscape mode... the
> within-page navigation bar is transformed into a left-side panel."
>
> http://www.nngroup.com/reports/mobile/ipad/
>
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> Brian Butterworth
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> follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist
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Re: [backstage] iPlayer and Nokia N900

[Ian Stirling]

Alex Cockell wrote:
Hi folks, 


Any idea when or if the N900 could have a native iPlayer client?  Just
that Flash is VERY sluggish...

IF you click 'pop out' - in the iplayer to take it to fullscreen, it's 
not bad - with the low bandwidth version.
Slightly jerky, and a much lower fps than the device can do natively, 
but it's a whole lot better than normal.

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