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Awesome Flash World Cup calendar
- keyle 16y agoSome bad mouth would say "You can do it in HTML5", but I guess it's flash because it's called World cup, not Apple cup. (oops)
- mixmax 16y agoI think I would be able to make it work in IE6 with css and a bit of javascript.
- keyle 16y agoI'd like to see you make it all work like that and with fonts in, not all images ;-)
- arethuza 16y agoSVG and JavaScript (using something like jQuery SVG) might not be too bad.
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoThe text in the example isn't selectable, searchable, SEO-able, cut'n'pastable and probably isn't accessible, so why would images of text be worse?
- ThomPete 16y agoI don't think it's about cut'n'paste or SEO but about file size and flexibility.
- niceguy101 16y agoHelps me take a hi resolution print-out without worrying about unreadable text.
- DougBTX 16y agoThe images pixelate even in full screen mode, it's hardly designed for high rez print-outs. Quite hard to print with the hover effect.
- minalecs 16y agoIll create a GUI interface using visual basic - link for reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
- kilian 16y agoIt would be fun to try and do this with CSS transforms, transitions, :target selectors and a bit of javascript.
- tomafro 16y agoIt's definitely got an interesting UI, but I can't see myself actually using it during the tournament. On a similar theme, the best ical world cup calendar I've found is here: http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1mhg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1m...
- ScottWhigham 16y agoThanks - hadn't seen that one.
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- shrikant 16y agoDo it, then, please. Would really like to see it.
- iamelgringo 16y agoFuck Flash & fuck Apple too for good measure. This is HN. Telling us about raphaeljs is good enough. Please keep comments civil.
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- ThomPete 16y agoIm sorry but the demos there as simple as they are running pretty bad on my mac. HTML5 is nowhere near being able to produce something like that anytime soon. It's not just about making it so that it works, it's about making it so that it works smoothly.
- melling 16y agoFair enough so it can't be done in HTML. Is it possible to have a simple HTML version for when Flash is not available? Flash is not available to most mobile users. Android users don't have Flash yet either.
- smokinn 16y agoYes they do. They just don't have flash 10 yet. (Though some with a Nexus One already got Froyo and therefore do have it.)
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- ez77 16y agoThis has come full circle for me. I received a link to it from Argentina, even though I live in Spain and Marca is a Spanish magazine. I showed it to my workmates and most had not seen it, and agreed that it was very well designed. Now I see it #1 in HN! It's viral promotion in its best expression.
- fabiandesimone 16y agoIf you are on a BB download this one: http://bit.ly/4LgF2K http://bit.ly/4LgF2K is fantastic!
- icefox 16y agoWhy are you hiding this binary behind bit.ly? Why not the webpage for this app?
- fabiandesimone 16y agoBecause the site is in Spanish. That link was taken from their web page. A bit paranoid are we? http://s42.com.ve/s42Mundial/ http://s42.com.ve/s42Mundial/
- fabiandesimone 16y agoOut of curiosity, what's up with the down votes?
- davnola 16y agoThis is not awesome, this is merely circular. One major problem: how can I see the data I want without leaving my mouse hovering over the right segment? For example, I hover over England (out in the quarters as per usual), move my mouse to foreground a Skype window so I can organise some bevs with my friends (IRL I have none, this is just an example), and lo- I am now seeing Bloemfontein data. Grr.
- richardw 16y agoAlt-tab works. You can alt-tab to your email and still mouse around the UI. It's not perfect but it works.
- davnola 16y agoYes everyone here knows that. But it's not really the point is it? I mean I can also move my mouse out through the very narrow channel between the different segments of the annulus! Instead I'm going to use a calendar that doesn't have all the drawbacks of flash, that integrates with existing calendar/pim apps, and that - bonus item - doesn't have a broken ui. (EDIT: BTW I used to love Tudumo back in my Windows days, cheers)
- richardw 16y agoAwesome, thanks for the btw! You on Linux/Mac?
- davnola 16y agoLinux, Emacs and Org-Mode http://orgmode.org/ http://orgmode.org/ Anything else is just heresy and witchcraft :)
- benologist 16y agoFor what it's worth it's not a drawback of Flash, the developer's just using the mouse out event to trigger changes. People make bad choices in all languages.
- hackermom 16y agoDoesn't strike me as awesome in any way. What's worse, it's pretty slow and jumpy.
- smackfu 16y agoInteresting that the countries are alphabetized in Spanish even though they are displayed in English. Oops. Spain = Espana USA = Estados Unidos France = France (or something)
- bfung 16y agoThis is not merely just a calendar, but can be viewed more like a "pivot table". The dimensions are Teams (Groups are just groups of Teams), Cities, and Time. Pick one, and it shows you the intersections with the other two (well, shows matches and places the teams in the matches). Very clever UI design for a traditional "Business Intelligence" report in the Enterprise world. Perhaps something like this is applicable to http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html. The trick is that this "calendar" has limited amount of items in each dimension.
- dejb 16y agoThe timezone is an issue. I'd prefer to see the times in my timezone rather than South Africa.