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My goals for this year

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SirPoonga:
Now that summer is coming up I am going to get busy again.  I have two goals for the project this summer.  Get Tag's data into the project and add color support.

Next winter I plan on redoing the website as a whole.  I haven't decided exactly how I am going to do that.  Right now I am leaning towards an HTML 5 remake.  Internet Explorer fans won't be happy then.

There are two parts of the website that need the most attention right now.  The submission wizard is old and archaic.  It could use an ajax overhaul, make it more graphical and dynamic.  The reports page could all be combined into a single HTML 5 page.  It would just be a list of games with filters to produce the same set of pages.  I am imagining something like MAWS.  A filter along the left side.  The right side will have two panes.  The top pane will be a graphics representation of the game that is selected from the list of games int he bottom pane.

The top pane can be a stand alone webpage for mobile devices also.  Just put in an url into your mobile device like the following and it will display the controls:
http://controls.arcadecontrols.com/controls/report.php?theGame=88games

I would need to put some smarts into that so it will support any rom name - look up the parent's control info if the child has none.

Talking parent-child rom relationships.  It is about time we take the child filter off of the submissions so children games can be submitted.

Howard_Casto:
I'm not sure why you want ot go with html 5 as there isn't any real benefit, but html 5 works just fine in internet explorer.  You just have to define it manually.

See this article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(v=vs.85).aspx

Now I think html5 doesn't work on anything earlier than ie8, but why in the world would anyone be running something below ie8?

SirPoonga:
There's some cool things html5 supports.  IE has the worse support for html5.  The best browser is chrome and safari mobile.  Google and Apple are pushing it though to get rid of flash.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 12, 2011, 01:26:15 am --- The best browser is chrome and safari mobile. 
--- End quote ---

I think that puts the nail in the html5 option then. 

Chrome and Safari are easily the least popular browsers.

Mind you I like chrome, but I can count the number of windows users I know that use chrome on my one finger (me and only occasionally). 


It's your baby and all, but it seems like a bad move to finally update the page only to make it inaccessable to the majority of users.  Then again I don't think flash is a good choice either.  Doesn't work on mobile devices and has similar compatability issues.

SirPoonga:
Well, Microsoft will come around I'm sure.  But that's why it is only a possibility now.  This won't happen until next winter.  IE does support html5, just not as good as other browsers.

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