New Webinterface (2 Viewers)

[Chris84]

Before discussion about features we should end up with decissions about the basics, other ways this here gets confusing, cause we are talking about to diffrent things.

And to this webguide, seems to use a lot of AJAX Elements and i'm not sure it's running so nicly with other browsers than IE.

 

[jawbroken]

Most AJAX stuff works across browsers? AJAX scripts work fine here on Opera.

 

[Chris84]

Well this is up to the developer. You can write AJAX Scripts working fine on the public browsers, but you also can write Scripts incompatible to such browsers.
To design a site looking and working identical on every browser, taking much more time. Some features even will never be possible with all browsers.
It's a bit like in the time of netscape 4.x.

 

[idioteque]

firefox support is a must for me, I don't care about supporting old browsers , IE

 

[j1nx]

firefox support is a must for me, I don't care about supporting old browsers , IE

I Agree, if the latest work it fine by me. I use this one;
www.ie7.com

 

[Bram]

If written carefully AJAX will be supported by all important browsers. But it won't function properly on a mobile device.

The following plugin works in most browsers and is fully AJAX driven. I can't share it yet because since the new music engine it doesn't function properly anymore. I haven't had the time yet to figure out what's the problem.
Next to that it isn't finished yet. I hope to have it finished for the 0.3 release.

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/showthread.php?t=9768&highlight=php

 

[idioteque]

and I dont use IE period .

 

[jawbroken]

Yes, but usually you have a different version for mobile devices anyway as the small screens dictate a radically different layout, in most cases.

 

[Chris84]

nice, we are discussing about details, but the basics are still open.

I'd prefer to build this bottom up and don't starting with the roof, without having a fundament.

Is there something against this procedure, then let me know.

 

[samuel337]

Geez, looks like I've opened up a new can of worms with my links.

Like Chris84 said, can we please bring this thread back to talking about new Web interface architecture. By architecture I mean how the web interface will communicate with MP, and possibly what language and web server to run it in. Features, what to implement etc. will be decided later, but we need the framework first.

And if we're all motivated and knowledgable enough, it shouldn't be hard to get AJAX, CSS and whatever else working on all browsers, the most painful one being IE6 (as IE7 is a lot better). But then again, IE7 is being pushed out as an 'important update' so IE6 *should* soon be gone forever

Sam
p.s. Chris84, IIRC you started this thread so maybe you could change the topic of this thread to include the word framework or architecture; maybe people will better understand the thread.