Something else for the web interface: Client-side switching between the views of text/small/large artwork. Seems like this should be doable client-side, without requiring a trip to the server.
I was thinking that client-side sorting would also be nice, but it's really not doable in a paged interface. Pretty much all items need to be in view. I tried a small experiment and edited server.prefs to set itemsperpage to 1000000 (essentially "all") but it's not very usable. Browsing albums, the page generated quickly enough, but the browser appears to choke on it. The framework used to generate these pages appears to churn out terribly over-complex HTML. One thing I notice is an insane amount of white space in these pages that doesn't need to be there, but mostly it's the deep nesting of CSS styled blocks that looks unnecessary. There are some other usability issues with all-items-on-a-page, as well. I've mentioned before how Chrome doesn't return to the same place within a frame on Back. When you have a frame displaying 3500 albums, browse into the 2000th one, then hit Back and end up at the top of the page, it's just not workable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101248 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
