Talk:October 2011 Coding Challenge/Slideshow

State of the Art
Jean-Fred 08:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * GallerySlideshow.js on Wikimedia Commons
 * Seb35's Screenviewer − Semo (broken?)


 * 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 ...
On the one hand [//www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=445774#Slideshow_Challenge "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 (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)