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Leonidas-from-XIV / floatinghands

A watch, as a CoffeeScript jQuery plugin. Or somethin'
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port to Fabric #10

Closed watchdesigner closed 13 years ago

watchdesigner commented 13 years ago

As indicated previously, of course it doesn't feel good to do something because of IE7, but compatibility with that browser will enable us to deploy floatinghands as a sidebar gadget. Once the porting is done, this will mean adding another platform virtually without added work, but almost doubling the worth of it in the eyes of our (potential) customer.

Scanning over the source, I think there are quite few lines that actually deal with using Easel. So I hope it will not be that much work. The added code for compensating for the lack of registration point functionality will be like 10 lines I expect, fiddling around with sinus, cosinus, and tangens a bit. However if that bothers you too much, we could agree that I crop all images in a way that they have their rotation center in the center of the image. So we wouldn't need registration points any longer.

Leonidas-from-XIV commented 13 years ago

As said in an email, IE7 is irrelevant to sidebar gedgets, therefore rendering your whole point moot.

watchdesigner commented 13 years ago

Sorry it seems I do not understand you correctly. I do not remember the email you are referring to. Also I don't understand why you say IE7 is irrelevant to sidebar gadgets. A sidebar gadget is an instance of IE 7, as you can read here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163370.aspx#S3

Leonidas-from-XIV commented 13 years ago

(Oh sorry, I wrote that in a mail that I haven't sent you yet)

This guy https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sidebargadfetdevelopment/thread/b090de99-fa5d-42ca-a614-36b597bd45e4/ uses canvas in Windows Gadgets. Canvas is not available in IE7, therefore I belive the documentation from Microsoft is outdated.

watchdesigner commented 13 years ago

As discussed via email, you're right; floatinghands does work in a sidebar gadget; no need to change anything.