24Jan

TODO

posted by Roo Reynolds
    A growing todo list for the site. Feel free to add bugs, quirks or suggestions as comments.

  • custom ‘new post’ dialog which takes a youtube/iplayer URL and auto inserts embedded video (and links to source) into the top of the post.
  • support YouTube
  • Support iPlayer
  • support Google Video
  • support Viddler? (this looks tough so far. Not sure the API supports getting embed code. Need to double-check)
  • change header image
  • modify footer text
  • make main page wider. 400px isn’t enough for the iplayer window (urgent)
  • sort out sidebar
  • sidebar: twitter link
  • sidebar: feed link
  • post footer: bookmark in del.icio.us
  • post footer: additional link to BBC programme page (where appropriate)
  • display metadata
  • make metadata prettier
  • sidebar: add feed from http://del.icio.us/tag/watchification to sidebar
  • sidebar: add more links to ‘blogroll’ links (iPlayer, 4OD, …?)
  • tweak presentation of each post to be “watch” rather than “listen”
  • tweak page submission input to have editor, director, etc. TV-specific metadata fields (these are reflected in search)
  • find a way to make it easy to get the unique id from iPlayer pages
  • twitter:@watchification (via twitter feed)
  • feedbuner
  • google analytics
  • make search and archive pages consistent with front page
  • add author info to post
  • sidebar: move search bar underneath intro text (e.g. much higher up the slidebar).
  • add ‘x days/hours left to watch’ text to post (once programmes xml/json makes this easy)
  • provide link to speechification (and from speech’ to watch’)
  • strange para text indent on posts.
  • a hrefs in comments (and posts?) don’t show unless mouse is hovering. Check stylesheet
  • “x comments” at foot of post is not a link to #comments
  • youtube: set width=“480″ height=“395″ (rather than width=”425″ height=”355″) to make embeds bigger. (mwuhuhuh)
  • bug: iPlayer not working for multiple videos on one page (tweaked the javascript to make each one unique)
  • support “other” as source type (e.g. unsupported embed), and show full URL as source. Embed it yourself, and supply full URL as videoID
  • “posted by by x” d’oh. Remove duplicate “by”
  • add meta data fields for writer and producer
  • contributor list
  • tag cloud
  • tag cloud for talent
  • commenting will interrupt the embedded video. Ajax comments to prevent a page reload?

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  1. Posted by Andy Piper on Monday 18th February

    What do you want to do in terms of supporting Viddler? Did you see Maria Langer’s series on using Viddler with WordPress?

  2. Posted by admin on Monday 18th February

    I did see that (I didn’t know Viddler did so much!).

    The support for YouTube and iPlayer is there to make it easy for Watchifiers to not have to worry about how to embed, so the blog does the work. Viddler doesn’t have a direct relationship between the URL and the embed code, so it’s harder to auto-embed based on URL (though I can think of a couple of ways to approach it).

  3. Posted by Andy Piper on Monday 18th February

    Ahh, the mysterious “admin” :-)

    Suggestion – at the moment it looks like your stylesheet makes visited links the same colour as the body text, which is a bit confusing. (hmm, I think that’s your last point in this list)

  4. Posted by roo on Monday 18th February

    Oops. (I like having an admin user and an author user, and I’ve obviously been logged in a admin a lot lately).

    Re visited links: yep. That needs fixing. Bit of a usability killer at the moment.

    (Update: should be a bit better now. I’m adding to this list as things gradually improve)

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