Aggregator Beta Up

Submitted by kebernet on Thu, 03/17/2005 - 18:48

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Usage Note: After you log in, go up to the address bar and hit "return" (like you typed the page in manually) before you start using configure page. User registration still gives no feedback if it works. here.

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RE: Aggregator Beta Up

Submitted by atrox (not verified) on Thu, 03/17/2005 - 18:56.

thats very very cool stuff man, looking more polished already (and loads of cool functionality). i will swoop in at the last second and make one commit and then we can call it ready ;).

RE: Aggregator Beta Up

Submitted by cooper (not verified) on Thu, 03/17/2005 - 19:19.

Yeah. It was actually a good exercise for me doing a clean set up. I found a couple more things. I also discovered I need to work around stupid years. You will notice the BBC in the "Science" section for the guest user puts a year of "5" in their feed. Jackasses. Also, I figured out what the strangeness was with the page configure when you get started, and it was really the fact that your browser still thinks the page your are on is /profile/login.action, even though the address bar shows /. That is why you have to hit return. I am working around it in the page configurator, but that will be in a patch. There is also some strangeness with the admin permissions I gotta work out :/

RE: Aggregator Beta Up

Submitted by Andy (not verified) on Fri, 03/18/2005 - 01:39.

I love it. I think the interface is slick with the client-side tabs and expand/minimize. I especially like how the tabs go to multiple rows if you add enough of them. One small thing I noticed: Let's say I create my own non-composite cluster and add two valid feeds to it. No problem; they show up in tabs with data. But if I remove one of the feeds, the other one suddenly says "no data available for this feed". If I then go back and add a feed again, both show data no problem. This might happen for >2 feeds, but I haven't checked. Just thought I'd throw that out there...it still kicks ass though.

RE: Aggregator Beta Up

Submitted by cooper (not verified) on Fri, 03/18/2005 - 08:56.

Thanks for the good words, and double thanks for bug reports. I have that fixed on my desk. I will push up the change later tonight. I am still not 100% happy with the way the tabs work. I have now tried about 6 different ways to do them, and haven't been 100% happy with any of them. Really what I would *like* to happen is specify the [li] tags that contain them as "position:relative; white-space: nowrap" and let them fill as needed. The problem is, none of the browsers actually BREAK the block box at the border between lis. I am going to try and hack it a little more and see how good I can do at "guessing" how many tabs will span the screen before it wraps. I would also like to do something like have them "cycle" around counter clockwise when you click on a tab from a rear row, rather than just flip the rows around. Originally I did a little DHTML scrolly that worked like a "traditional" tab widget so you would scroll around them left to right at window width, but I just found it too annoying. The thing I like about this design over almost any other web aggregator layout I have seen is you can put a SICK quantity of information on the screen and get through it all quickly. I don't want to break that with too much chrome. Gotta run.