[Scummvm-devel] Fwd: Demos page overhaul

[Tobia Tesan]

Il 31/12/2013 13:57, Filippos Karapetis ha scritto:
>
> I agree that we can use the demo name to group the demos together. 
> Wonderful idea :) We can split the demo names in two: the demo name 
> itself (e.g. "Freddi Fish 1: The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds"), and 
> its variant (e.g. "Windows demo"). We could either split the title in 
> the XML itself, or do it in Javascript (however this is slower and 
> more error-prone). The entries have been grouped by target name 
> because it was easier to use the target name as a unique ID. It should 
> be straightforward to change that grouping by the target description 
> rather than the target ID, but we'll probably need to do that in the 
> XML to keep it simple and non error-prone. That way, we can avoid 
> having the first entry as a recommended download too, if we want. We 
> can just make a clickable first entry (e.g. "Freddi Fish 1: The Case 
> of the Missing Kelp Seeds") which will show a submenu/subfolder with 
> all of its variants.

Hate to be Captain Obvious, but what about going a step further and 
adding separate fields for platform /and/ language?
As a bonus, you /could/ (not sure if it would bloat everything up, 
though) display icons for platform and language /and/ sort and filter.

If the problem is that nobody wants to do the grunt work of doing the 
data entry for the platform/language field I'll happily do it next week, 
just hand me the XML (although I suspect some apt sed magic could even 
avoid doing it by hand altogether).

My 2 useless cents.

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