Bram said:I've been playing around with the HTML code a bit and have changed the look of the plugin. It looks like this right now....
I just used simple 'colors' not matching any skin. But I haven't used very much images also. So the colors will be easy to alter from the css file. If the plugin was written in PHP I could have been a lot more creative, with Ajax for example. I don't have any knowledge ASP or C#. I understand what it says based on my PHP programming experience, but haven't touched the scripting in Default.aspx very much.
If anyone is interested in the files I'll post them as a preview. I'm not finished yet. I'm using a <marquee> i.a. which I realy don't like. When I find the time I'll do some DHTMLling to make thinks look more fancy.
Too bad Mozilla doesn't support Stylesheets for scrollbars, as you can see, I'm looking for the best crossbrowser way to write a DHTML scrollbar.
Also....somehow Internet Explorer doesn't seem to like "overflow-x: hidden;" in a DIV. It simply doesn't seem to work. I'll try to figure that out to. It meeses up the layout a bit from time to time....
Some things I've noticed....
- It seems like the stop button needs to be pressed twice to fully execute the stop command.
- skipping to the next song doesn't work
- Mediaportal crashes completely roughly one out of four times when the page is being loaded or refreshed. Haven't been able te track the bug as it seams to apear kind of random.
- It would realy be fantastic if the functionality Ajax offers could be used. It's much cleaner and more efficient. Also, scrolled parts of the page wouldn't be scrolled to top when using a link.
- The "Back" button in the "Browse-part" is gone somehow. I didn't delete anything to do that. Can't figure out where it's gone... Any tips....?
Some nice extra features would be (if at all possible)...
* Volume control
* FF en RWD
* Statusbar
* Tracklenght displayed (in playlist and realtime, realtime could be faked if the server sends a signal when a new song has started).
Again, Ajax would be great because a statusbar en volumecontrol could be realized without having to refresh the page. I could write a DHTML slider that ajusts the volume "onChange" without refreshing. Possebly I'm suggesting things you already thought of
I'd love to help developing where possible.
Hi Bram,
thanks for the good work. I played around with many remote tools and mediacenters for the last few weeks. So maybe I can share some ideas which I had on this topic.
- Did you have a look at Xlobby and the HTML interface for this - they did a great job maybe your tool can profit from that with a bit reverse engineering :wink:
- what about showing the coverarts - also it is not an absolutley necessary feature but in my opinion it adds some value to the GUI
- in my opinion all the html based remotes and most of the others also have a big problem: The unexperienced user (like my girlfriend) is left alone for setting up the connection. For WLAN this is somehow easy preconfigureable but the real killerfunction would be remote control via your mobile. Ideally we should have a tool/plugin that automatically connects to the Mobile phone via BT(PAN-Profile as soon as MediaCenter starts and the device is in range)
So all the rest can be done via the mobile phone browser and a link.
- maybe for older mobile phones a wap version could also be of value
- The website should be always optimized depending on the browser and the platform. In my opinion this should be MSIE 6 platform NT 5.1 (800x600), MSIE 4.01 platform windows CE (320x240), maybe some mozilla, and maybe wap
Cheers,
Florian
Netherlands
