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Masonry/results page tweaks #117

Open mialondon opened 11 years ago

mialondon commented 11 years ago

@amandavisconti now that we're not insanely busy, tell us whose help/what kind of skills you need on this with you!

mialondon commented 11 years ago

Doh, I've just looked in Opera (Mac) and it looks like the default image isn't displaying? For some reason anyway some titles are running their full width and throwing things out. Screenshot attached.

serendipomatic_resultspage_opera

mialondon commented 11 years ago

There's also something odd with the alt text - you can spot it as the results load. The longest I've seen is pasted below but the quality is generally variable so perhaps we should make it generic or alt=" "?

Geo. M. Saville. Alias Lord Ashburton. Alias H. Percy. @ W.J. Hadley. @ C. Bertrand. @ Big Griff. Arr. San Francisco. Chg. Forgery. December 24, 1878. He posed as an Englishman travelling [sic] for pleasure and uttered forged letters and checks on different eastern banks, also in Canada, Captain Lees arr. him in this city on a chg. Forgery and on June 14th. 1880. Sentenced to Folsom, 8 yrs. While in state prison, he dosed himself with pills made of soap, which kept him sick constantly, complained of stomach trouble and pricked his gums, making the blood run; his hope being that he would create the general impression that he was suffering form hemmorage [sic] of the lungs, he played the part so well that he received a pardon from Governor Perkins in 1882. He had introduced himself to Studebake, the wagon manufacturer as an agent for the Standard Co. and thus secured letters of introduction to people of prominence and then swindle them
scottkleinman commented 11 years ago

Based on the screen shot, it looks like an Opera incompatibility with Isotope. This page http://isotope.metafizzy.co/docs/help.html lists a couple of incompatibilities.

The workaround for the overlapping images which then move into columns may be the imagesLoaded plugin listed on the same page.

On 6 August 2013 17:10, Mia notifications@github.com wrote:

There's also something odd with the alt text - you can spot it as the results load. The longest I've seen is pasted below but the quality is generally variable so perhaps we should make it generic or alt=" "?

[image: Geo. M. Saville. Alias Lord Ashburton. Alias H. Percy. @ W.J. Hadley. @ C. Bertrand. @ Big Griff. Arr. San Francisco. Chg. Forgery. December 24, 1878. He posed as an Englishman travelling [sic] for pleasure and uttered forged letters and checks on different eastern banks, also in Canada, Captain Lees arr. him in this city on a chg. Forgery and on June 14th. 1880. Sentenced to Folsom, 8 yrs. While in state prison, he dosed himself with pills made of soap, which kept him sick constantly, complained of stomach trouble and pricked his gums, making the blood run; his hope being that he would create the general impression that he was suffering form hemmorage [sic] of the lungs, he played the part so well that he received a pardon from Governor Perkins in 1882. He had introduced himself to Stude bake, the wagon manufacturer as an agent for the Standard Co. and thus secured letters of introduction to people of prominence and then swindle them]http://images/resize/300/?url=http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf6p3009bf/thumbnail

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amandavisconti commented 11 years ago

I've started working on these issues locally.

amandavisconti commented 11 years ago

Fixed alt tag issue. Going to experiment locally with better layout in general before fixing Opera.

mialondon commented 11 years ago

Great stuff! We never came up with a solution for titles that were bigger than the image, but I suspect it's behind some of the overlapping oddness - do you have any ideas?

scottkleinman commented 11 years ago

I experimented with using tooltips instead of the current overlay, but JQuery UI doesn't allow you to click on the image when a tooltip is open. I tried the much better qtip2 http://qtip2.com/ plugin but couldn't get it to work. If people like the idea, it might be worth trying again; I think the problem could have been something simple like JQuery begin loaded twice. Regardless, copying some of the qtip2 styles http://qtip2.com/demosfor the overlay css might produce something that looks nicer and is more readable.

On 12 August 2013 15:11, Mia notifications@github.com wrote:

Great stuff! We never came up with a solution for titles that were bigger than the image, but I suspect it's behind some of the overlapping oddness - do you have any ideas?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/chnm/serendipomatic/issues/117#issuecomment-22529935 .

Scott Kleinman Professor of English Director, Center for the Digital Humanities California State University, Northridge

amandavisconti commented 11 years ago

Looks like Isotope had a bunch of code improvements right after OWOT, including "added support for responsive layouts with element sizing" (potentially very helpful). I've got the afternoon today to spend working on the results page masonry locally--will see if updating masonry improves it.

mialondon commented 11 years ago

Tagging @mfrazer on this too...

rlskoeser commented 11 years ago

@amandavisconti has done some research on this but won't have time to work on it until late December. She has found some resources for fixing this issue and will hopefully post some links with information about it in case someone else has a chance to look at it.

amandavisconti commented 11 years ago

See http://metafizzy.co/blog/summer-2013-update/ ("added support for responsive layouts with element sizing") and http://isotope.metafizzy.co/docs/help.html#images.