On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:26:57AM -0400, Rob Shortt wrote:
> 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.
Well, those are the options... I suppose there is one other option,
which is to dynamically generate the popup on the client side.
Something like this:
function popupwindow (vars) {
document.write('<div...'>)
document.write('<table...');
}
Though I spent this morning wrestling with javascript to get PNG
transparency in IE and I'm pretty damn sick of it right now ;)
> Well, 50 sets of div tags with all the program info. I agree it is a
> lot of data.
>
> 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.
Well, the problem is that it makes browsing excruciating. Even if you
have a good speed (300k on a wireless connection will take a second or
two) it's a lot for the browser to deal with.
Other than a seperate popup, the document.write() option I mentioned
above is the next simplest and most lightweight. CPU used to do a
small javascript thing like I mentioned is cheap on the user end.
> 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.
I dunno; I don't use genres myself. I am very picky about what I
watch...
> 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).
Well, that's what tv_imdb does. It looks for movies (only by default)
and if it exists, it populates a number of extra fields, like genre,
director, top billed actors, star rating, etc.
When you first run it, it dumps 500mb of data on your PC and uses
that. You can update it but it's cached for the most part.
man tv_imdb
might help :)
I don't use tv_imdb myself, but you could generate some pretty cool
browsing information with it.
Aubin
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