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1 year ago Sherlock Group- WOW I am just in love with the way your website is coming along. The animation of the different stories is absolutely incredible!! I am wondering how on earth you did this. Just curious. It looks so good, is so fun, and interactive. Even though the links aren't all perfect yet, my jaw dropped when I saw the book move! 👍 Also, good progress on the reading view, it looks great. My team is getting close to tackling ours as well, so it is cool to see yours as an example. We are also going to use java script to do this, and you guys are as well I assume? Excited to see how it turns out!!
Week 9 Update
This week, we had a slightly truncated meeting because several group members were ill on the day of the meeting. However, we still discussed a few important issues, including the markup freeze, website design, case choice clarification, and plans to create a reading view.
The Freeze 🧊
Per our decision last week, we deferred the planning of the markup freeze to this week. At our mentor @cdornn's suggestion, we elected to enact the markup freeze on the night of Friday, Nov 11th, at roughly midnight. This means that, by Saturday morning, all of the XML documents will be solidified and we will agree not to change anything about the files for the rest of the project (barring any significant issues that may arise). All documents must be fully marked up for actions and quotes before the freeze takes place, and absolutely must be valid against the schema.
Our Website 🚧
@Sean-Shmulevich has made even more great progress on our website this week, and it is beginning to settle into a visual style. While there are still more pages to be created, and some issues yet to be ironed out (see #8 for the checklist of website-related goals), the site is looking solid and is nearly ready to accept XSLT-created documents for the reading view.
Case Choice 🔤
We briefly went over a discussion we had previously regarding case choice (that is, the different ways we could write a value in our attributes for maximum readability and validity across programs). We reaffirmed our decision to write all names in camel-case, which means that a name like Sherlock Holmes would be written as
sherlockHolmes. The one exception to this is the occasional unnamed characters we've encountered, who are to be named in the format ofu_Description, wherein the "Description" would be replaced with a word indicating who the person was in the story (like Landlord or Driver).Reading View 📖
Because this week's classes have focused on XSLT-made HTML views, and specifically because Friday's assignment was regarding creating sample XSLT on project data, we decided that it made sense to appoint people to focus on creating a reading view. Though the entire group will be involved in certain aesthetic choices, we decided that @AlyssaUnderwood and I (@CarolineMcDonough) would work together to combine ideas from our sample XSLT projects into a reading view for the texts on our website.