Talk:October 2011 Coding Challenge/Slideshow
State of the Art edit
- GallerySlideshow.js on Wikimedia Commons
- Seb35's Screenviewer − Semo (broken?)
Jean-Fred 08:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks Jean-Fred. The slideshow gadget is already linked from the challenge description page. The screenviewer seems primarily intended for viewing a set of pages? Can you explain how it can be used to render image slideshows?--Eloquence 09:09, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- My screenviewer is intended to display articles or images, depending of the configuration. It’s plenty of bugs and only tested on Opera, but you can display a mix of fullscreen pages and images by clicking on "demo", selecting "Rennes" and configuring "Images plein écran : Toujours" ("Fullscreen images: always"); it should work. ~ Seb35 19:06, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
HTML5 or ... edit
On the one hand "a beautiful, interactive HTML5 slideshow" is requested (HTML5 is still in development), while on the other hand MSIE6 must support this. I am very curious how to set up a beautiful slideshow for IE6. It's a pain with IE6 and a standard, which is not a standard yet. These are just my thoughts about it.
Concerning License and other image related data, (including author, date, geodata, description), I hope that we could have a talk, Erik. From my POV, these should be saved in separate table fields. This could enormous ease the task for tools like slideshows and bots while reducing data-transfer. If you are interested in, we can make a draft-list how the new database-table should look like. Sincerely -- Rillke 14:40, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- No, IE6 doesn't have to support the slideshow. It just shouldn't be broken by it. "It's fine to have advanced standards-based features only available in shiny new browsers if it would be a pain to emulate them, as long as other browsers are still usable."--Eloquence 15:20, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
- Given that jQuery is compatible with IE6 [1] (you will note this link to a MW ;-), no major problem is expected if using jQuery with "well-written HTML/JS", no? ~ Seb35 19:25, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
- Oh it's so easy that UploadWizard had to change how to construct radio-controls (IE refuses creating groups if you try to assign the 'name'-attribute like you normally do with jQuery). Futhermore it is difficult if there are underlaying controls. They tend to shine through, even when using absolute positioning or z-index. No it simply isn't simple, excect you are a highly knowlegable and technical up-to-date expert. It took me at least 6 hours to make the slideshow on commons IE6-compatible. Of course something simple and ugly can be easily constructed. -- Rillke 17:34, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- I knew IE6 was a pain, but I was too naive to think it was easy given IE6 was supported by jQuery. ~ Seb35 21:36, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
- Oh it's so easy that UploadWizard had to change how to construct radio-controls (IE refuses creating groups if you try to assign the 'name'-attribute like you normally do with jQuery). Futhermore it is difficult if there are underlaying controls. They tend to shine through, even when using absolute positioning or z-index. No it simply isn't simple, excect you are a highly knowlegable and technical up-to-date expert. It took me at least 6 hours to make the slideshow on commons IE6-compatible. Of course something simple and ugly can be easily constructed. -- Rillke 17:34, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
- Given that jQuery is compatible with IE6 [1] (you will note this link to a MW ;-), no major problem is expected if using jQuery with "well-written HTML/JS", no? ~ Seb35 19:25, 23 October 2011 (UTC)