On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:33:53PM -0400, Rob Shortt wrote:
2) TV guide speed: Its too slow!! (loads slow) Yes, I want all the functionality AND speed. Can we do something about this? I think the speed is affected by the amount of data we pass back to the web browser. I have lots of channels and really notice bad load time, I only display 2 hours in by guide as well.
Well, the way we do it now is, well to be frank, completely inefficient. Instead of using DHTML popups, why don't we use a new window popup? i.e. window.open()
I don't know, I really don't like new-window based popups at all and I don't think creating a new window frame is the best way to do what we want. Even then, we will still have to hit the webserver (and recordserver) for every window.
I like how the CSS/DHTML popups blend with the look and feel of everything else on the page, and no window frames.
If there are 50 shows on the screen, we send 50 popups. Instead, we
Well, 50 sets of div tags with all the program info. I agree it is a lot of data.
should just window.open a smaller window. It would make a huge
difference.
Maybe the speed of having a smaller faster tvguide view is worth a hit for each time you want to display a programs info. I would like to try improving what we have now before going the window.open() route.
Jason Tackaberry has some ideas for speeding up the guide. Jason?
3) Genre support: I really like the genre support (genre.rpy and the genre options at the top of the guide) and think we could add onto it a bit. Maybe we can merge genre.rpy and search.rpy with advanced search options. Also most times when I use the genre I would like to see more than the current days worth and the guide loading slow makes me to not want to change the guide date. The genre option list could be an entry to an advanced search with prepopulated fields.
What about color coding genres? At least allowing it be optionally configured so you could highlight "comedy" in red, or "sports" in green, etc.
Sounds ok. Some things belong in multiple genres too but it would be good to be able to visually identify something by skimming your guide. Maybe have a genre-watch setting for ones you are particularly interested in even.
Also is there a good way to search for movies? Is all we have to go by the MPAA rating? It would be awesome to do a search for all movies, or all movies of a particular genre. We could do lots with an advanced search.
Try tv_imdb (included with xmltv) and we could go from there.
tv_imdb works for movies? I'll check it out. I have hear horror storries about tv_imdb bogging down systems though! Now that you mention this perhaps we can cross-check program titles with imdb (ok that would be a bit crazy and insane traffic - maybe a cache? blah, I dunno).
1) Prepopulate edit_favorites.rpy fields. When you edit an existing favorite it loses some of your previous properties.
Probably not too hard; just use the 'selected' in the form fields.
Yep, easy.
2) Confirm on delete file. Yep, I got bit by this one once too. :)
Should we be showing the FXD filename or the raw filename? It seems inconsistent right now.
Yes, it is. Maybe it is worth showing the fxd filename if its there.
-Rob
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