On Sat, Feb 04, 2012 at 04:30:38PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
(Another request - could this mailing list be set to reply-to-list? Sorry for the duplicate reply, Dom.)
I'm going to leave the list as it is, I think, because I've seen so many strong opinions on both sides of that particular debate that changing it probably isn't going to gain much (and I've seen plenty of mistakes, both replies off-list that should have been on-list and the more embarrassing converse).
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:51:57PM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
- Remove the recent changes display from the front page. It's always full of spam.
On Thu 02 Feb 2012, Dominic Hargreaves dom@earth.li wrote:
Easy: done!
Thank you! Might be worth including the navbar on the front page now, instead?
Good point, done.
- Switch from this style of locale/category page: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?id=Locale_Central&version=1 to this: http://oxford.openguides.org/wiki/?id=Locale_Central&version=2 This would involve (a) editing existing pages,
Ticket created: http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/279
I'm happy to do these bit by bit as and when I get a free moment - is that how you're envisaging it happening, or would you like me to look into writing a bot to do it?
I would not object to either approach :)
- Switch to the most recent version of the Google Maps API. Version 3 of the API is much smoother and also optimised for mobile browsing.
Hmm, I'd prefer to see core OpenGuides updated for this.
Me too! I seem to remember that what's stopped us upgrading in the past is that URLs would have to change (the zoom levels used to go in the other direction) and people didn't want that to happen. This is
why I wrote the RGL addon, because I wanted to go to v2 of the API (and later I changed it to use v3).
Thanks, that's a useful explanation.
When you say smoother, do you mean the coding process or the user experience?
I was thinking of the user experience, but actually I think the coding process is simpler too.
It seems like only yesterday we upgraded to v2...
OpenGuides is still really on v1, isn't it? It loads the v2 JavaScript, but then uses the GMap object rather than GMap2. Judging by Trac: http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/93
we did this in order to have a smaller JavaScript download, but without changing the actual JavaScript calls.
Ah, right.
- Add more categories to the sidebar (see the Cambridge Guide link for an example).
Oh, good idea.
Added ticket: http://dev.openguides.org/ticket/280
Does this need a lot of discussion, or can I just suggest some and see what people think?
It's... a wiki. Suggesting some will be fine :)