Chose Anime name in mylist [OLD REQ]

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:24 pm

Another approach (but not easily navigable) is to have a title/acronym tag in the HTML with the alternate name as I used in the html light-blue template, so when you move over a title a tooltip appears with the alternative title (for English, Romanji and for Romanji English).

Post by **fahrenheit** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 1:37 pm

Hmm, good ideia, i was thinking in using the "title pref1 (title pref2)" style, but that looks better and saves screen space in some larger anime title.

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:38 pm

Hmmm... anybody interested in the fact that I am sitting in front of a HP 24" display with a 1900*1200 resolution?

I don't mind if there are additional lines used in my mylist

And it is an _option_ not a preset. You could choose to have both titles displayed, at the moment it seems some variables are already passed on... so _if_ it's no CGI problem... (if it does not use too much additional CPU power) I'd love to have both titles displayed underneath each other.

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:21 am

Skywalka wrote:Hmmm... anybody interested in the fact that I am sitting in front of a HP 24" display with a 1900*1200 resolution?

No, we're interested in the average user... 1280x1024 or even 1024x768.

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 1:59 am

Well the _average_ user can chose not to have the titles displayed

Nah honestly, my 15" Laptop now had 1400*1050 resolution. It's teeny tiny and it kinda sucks because I had to move closer to the screen actually - I don't really get why they increase the resolution without the OS beeing able to adapt automatically (which is virtually impossible because so many programmers don't keep to the Windows XP Standards for they program for multi-windows platforms). So even if I chose to change the font size and layout, everything else looks totally idiotic.

Anyway, my point was just that I and others (who happen to be "blessed" with higher resolutions) could chose to have more displayed. Just the option.

Joe user can have something like the hover option, I won't mind.

Post by **fahrenheit** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:02 am

Well i'm on a 15" screen, capable of 1024x768 (default max), i guess lots of ppl still use this screen res..
hmm maybe exp could grab some logs to see what is the most used screen res from visitors.

More lines per anime?
1024x768 is allready full of info, even at full screen, have pity of us small screen users

Elias · Post by **Elias** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:03 am

Thats why i proposed to place additional title below and not as new column
(for using it with smaller resolutions simply reduce number of displayed titles in profile to fit all on one screen or use scrollbar). And with option to disable it, if someone doesnt want to have it, than can spare some screen size.

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 9:04 am

Elias, but that's what fahrenheit is talking about. He doesn't want to loose half the titles shown in the screen. As we did a non remember password (even when you clicked to remember) for the average user then we can take in account this and not waste half the data they can view because of this. Is not that you will watch the titles every second.

Skywalka · Post by **Skywalka** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:34 pm

I agree to what DonGato says, but I don't think there is an option to have both titles displayed on small screens without losing space.

I think the hover option is idiotic because you won't be able to see the additonal title on first sight. Hovering over a title would be just like simply clicking the title and then be taken to the anime's page.

I really only see benefit of additional titles displayed if they are really displayed. If somebody with a small screen does not want that, then I'll be fine with it but what's the use of additonal titles if you have them not really displayed but hidden somewhere behind the actual text? Then we could simply keep it the way it is now.

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:43 pm

Skywalka wrote:I think the hover option is idiotic because you won't be able to see the additonal title on first sight. Hovering over a title would be just like simply clicking the title and then be taken to the anime's page.

Some people won't agree with that as you have to click, wait and load a page you didn't want, for then to get back and load again the page you were in. So for me is idiotic to ask people to do so instead.

As I said what I proposed has less impact in the mylist design. Don't like it, don't use it as you said.

Post by **fahrenheit** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 2:53 pm

hmm, this is a bit off-topic, but one could introduce aniDB for 1024x768 and lower resolutions and aniDB for 1152x864 and higher resolutions

the code is easy to do with javascript, you just need to check the screen res at page load and then redirect to a diferent page or redraw the page for higher resolutions, though with perl i don't know how easy it is to implement such thing.

but either way it would be more work for exp to do and i don't think he want's more.

egg · Post by **egg** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:08 pm

In the language preferences can have the following:
Default anime title type: Romaji, Kanji, English or Other
Secondary anime title type: None, Romaji, Kanji, English or Other

The default should probably be none, and the formatting is the same as it is now. If the user chooses a secondary language, then that is there choice regardless of how well it fits on their screen.

Also, if would be nice if the secondary language did not show if it was the same as the first.

DonGato · Post by **DonGato** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 6:40 pm

Well, that way exp has to code a preferences option, add a column to a table and store it for every user, without taking in account the design change of mylist. Too much for such a feature.

Post by **fahrenheit** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 1:28 am

I agree with DonGato, it's way too much for a preference, i would also agree that the hover thingie is the best choice in terms of easyness (?) of implementation (?), but anyway i will take any choice of layout, the current one isn't too bad anyway