ShiftSpace as platform for Fisheye?

[Geoff Matters]

See shiftspace.org a platform for delivering parallel content overlaid onto web pages. Although the platform would require a few changes to fully support Fisheye, the team is willing to make those changes. In the meantime I spent a few days making a functional FE test client on top of SS. You can try it out yourself, if you are willing to spend a little time setting up the SS dev environment. From http://fisheye.wiki-site.com/ -> Implementation section there are brief instructions on how to get started.

After the next official release of SS, it should be possible to test FE without the need to set up SS dev env.

-geoff

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[Geoff Matters]

I posted a new version of the Fisheye client,
instructions are the same as before or if you already
installed just replace the Fisheye directory with new
version (download from same location)

Features:

* View mode - F icon expands to full view on mouseover
* plugin which will query newstrust.net for real-time
trust ratings of story, and generates direct links to
read/write NT reviews
* plugin for sourcewatch (uses their graphics)
* Edit mode to change category and enter relevant info
* newstrust edit mode requires only NT story id
* default placement is by x,y position in page (drag
in Edit mode)
* Settings mode allows filtering by category, source,
and submitter (submitter filtering disabled because
User support is currently unfinished in the ShiftSpace
0.11 code)
* Help mode was added just to show how new modes can
be added as plugins without touching core FE code

The most significant change is

* support for placement via DOM Range, so that F icons
is placed correctly regardlesss of font size, page
width, how big the banner ads are, etc. To use,
select some text then click "Lock Pos To Sel Text"
button in Edit mode. Right now the icon floats over
text, and position won't follow text if font / window
size changes. Will be placed correctly after page
reload. In future icon will be embedded directly into
text so placement stays correct even as text rewraps
due to size changes.

NOTE: shiftspace platform is in active devel right now
so results may be a little unpredictable... for
instance font colors are weird due to a change
yesterday

ShiftSpace is anticipating release of version 0.11
within the next month. 0.11 may or may not include
all necessary features to support the full FE vision.
At minimum, it will make testing FE simpler (no dev
env required).

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