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

Re: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-11 Thread neil
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]On Behalf Of neil Sent: 08 January 2008 15:17 To: backstage-developer@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders We've been developing a prototype interface element for the BBC which we'd like to release to the Backstage deve

RE: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-10 Thread Paul Daniel
stage-developer] RSS Sliders We've been developing a prototype interface element for the BBC which we'd like to release to the Backstage developer community for feedback and improvements. HYPERLINK "http://projects.hinterland.nu/bbc/sliders"http://projects.hinterland.nu/bbc /slid

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 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 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

2008-01-09 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

2008-01-09 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 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 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 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

2008-01-08 Thread Christopher Woods
ready adjust the amount display from each category). Good job guys! _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of neil Sent: 08 January 2008 15:17 To: backstage-developer@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage-developer] RSS Sliders We've been developing a prototype

[backstage-developer] RSS Sliders

2008-01-08 Thread neil
We've been developing a prototype interface element for the BBC which we'd like to release to the Backstage developer community for feedback and improvements. http://projects.hinterland.nu/bbc/sliders It's a simple slider widget which allows for four RSS feeds to be mixed down into a singl