RE: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-08 Thread Christopher Woods
That's rather handy. :D Seems to work just fine in Opera Kestrel too. My only suggestion for (a minute) improvement would be a toggle to progressively display WIL and News as opposed to interleaving them WIL/News/WIL/News (some strange people - like me - prefer grouped, even if you can already ad

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-09 Thread Davy Mitchell
I like it! Pretty cool stuff - might use it on Mood News! When /how are you planning a release? Davy -- Davy Mitchell Blog - http://www.latedecember.co.uk/sites/personal/davy/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/daftspaniel Skype - daftspaniel needgod.com - Sen

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-09 Thread James Cridland
On Jan 8, 2008 3:16 PM, neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Questions include: Is this intuitive? Does the data shift as you might > expect? Are two sliders too complex? Is a slider appropriate here, or should > something else be used? Is the sorting algorithm right? What should we do > about dupl

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-09 Thread Matthew Cashmore
As this is the developer list I¹d like to keep it quite technical here before we open it out to the main list for general feedback... However... In this instance I was really interested in this work (which came out of the last labs) because it solves a specific problem for N&R ­ that being if you l

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-09 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 9 Jan 2008, at 15:37, Matthew Cashmore wrote: But as you say... It would be very interesting to see how many people would actually use them. I think they are great idea - but they are quite bulky, so would probably need most/all of a page of their own rather than fitting into a regu

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-09 Thread Michael Sparks
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 15:37:41 Matthew Cashmore wrote: > That's an interesting point actually ­ should 'useability' be part of the > developer list or is that something that should be kept to the main list? In my opinion, yes, absolutely - usability is a major part of any software system.

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread neil
Hi Davy [and all others who have posted comments]. We're going to tweak it based on this round of feedback, and hopefully then build a production version for Nations and Regions. At that point the code should be ironed-out and ready for general release. Word from the BBC is that they plan t

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread Matthew Cashmore
Just had a thought - what if you could use the sliders to create your page and then that generated a custom RSS feed based on those settings? Would that be useful? m On 10/1/08 11:09, "neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Davy [and all others who have posted comments]. > > We're going to twe

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread O
>Would that be useful? Yes, much much more so. If I can't use Google Reader to read something, I don't read it, and I suspect I'd not that abnormal.

RE: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Daniel
I'm not seeing a replacement of items when I move the slider just a reduction. Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Maxthon 1.6.3 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of neil Sent: 08 January 2008 15:17 To: backstage-developer@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage-deve

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-11 Thread neil
Hi Paul, The granularity of the slider is determined by the number of elements in the lists - hence feeds with few numbers of items [e.g. Cornish Features] will only change with a greater movement of the slider. Currently the slider itself returns values between 0 and 100, which allows fo

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 09/01/2008, Matthew Cashmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As this is the developer list I'd like to keep it quite technical here > before we open it out to the main list for general feedback... However... > In this instance I was really interested in this work (which came out of > the last la