<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 16px;" lang="x-western">Hi, part of the complexity ofc also comes from putting a 2- or 3-dimensional tree into a line. Which makes me look foreward even more for the vote-space-curtain, which falls down on demand and has enough room to show much more of the vote-space much clearer. (BTW, the circular layout of it is my favorite again, after we had this thread about these centerless pipe-votes, where voters gather around them in circles.) And I have the hope, that coding this curtain is not so much of an effort anymore, since almost all of the functionality of it is now already coded in the track and only the graphics would change - or is this wrong? But about the track: I think, part of the confusion would go away, if there were both names up in the track, if two people are involved in the show, i.e. in position pages with highlighted diffs and diff-pages. And maybe the names permanently coloured accordingly, like it is now when hovered over (or have a colourd frame or background around them). And how, if we make the anchor really the center of the user-experience? So the user always knows, where he is looking from. From this center of his perspective he can look at other drafters, i.e. at diffs (in position-pages and in the diff-bridge). And ofc he can always change his center of perspective, i.e. make another one the anchor. This would only mean: <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">We use colour for cast relations (voter/candidate, co-voter) but the vote track already shows that info and shows it more intuitively. Possible elements of a solution: </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">a) Drop colours. Use shades of grey (light/dark) or single colour (orangish/grey) in all places: bridge, track lighting and draft shadows. </blockquote> Yes, I think, this will help a lot. Just two stabile colours: one for each actor: anchor and the other. <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Add colour (say dull red) for the non-drafters, who are currently distinguished as grey in the track. </blockquote> If we have two colours for the others, grey for the non-drafters is good imo. <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">b) Don't distinguish full cast relation, but only position in regard to anchor. So voters and co-voters *left* of the anchor are lightly shaded, while co-voters and candidate *right* are darkly shaded. This echoes the spatial info of the vote-track *and* emphasizes the anchor more clearly. Easier now to orient. </blockquote> Can't we leave this distinction away? Just have the anchor and the other (no matter if left or right)? <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">The light ones (left) remain on top in the diffs, and the dark (right) below. No change there. </blockquote> How, if the anchor was always on top? <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">c) Tint the user (say blue) wherever he/she happens to appear in bridge, track lighting and draft shadows. </blockquote> Yes. Thomas <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:28, Michael Allan wrote: <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">A quick update. We have a couple new features on the bridge: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/D?a=5339&b=5340&s">http://zelea.com:8080/v/w/D?a=5339&b=5340&s</a> (hit refresh) The first is difference lighting. The vote track (top) now spotlights both authors of the difference, much like in the draft pages. So you can see how the authors relate to each other in local votespace, whether as voter and candidate, or co-voters, or what not. The second new feature is cross-linking of differences. Slide the mouse along the vote track and it spotlights all of the differences in local votespace (again, much like in drafts). Click on one and the bridge link is enabled (top left). So now you can navigate directly from difference to difference. Please report any bugs or other problems you see. We're currently testing on Firefox and Chrome. </blockquote> </blockquote> _______________________________________________ Votorola mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Votorola@zelea.com">Votorola@zelea.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mail.zelea.com/mailman/listinfo/votorola">http://mail.zelea.com/mailman/listinfo/votorola</a> </blockquote> </div> </body> </html>