IdeaJam(tm) feed for Kerr Rainey

re: Single Idea Widget

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:02:34 +0000

Author: Rob McDonagh
Comment:

re: Single Idea Widget

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:00:04 +0000

Author: Dwight Wilbanks
Comment:

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:14:43 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment:

Notes Client / Other: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:01:34 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Tags: ImageResources enhancement
Idea:

Enable us to add .png and .svg files as image resources and have them render in the notes client.

re: Repost "Buy Bruce & Matt a Beer" Idea

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:57:55 +0000

Author: Ben Poole
Comment: No-one deserves that :)

re: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:21:08 +0000

Author: Sean Burgess
Comment: Can I get a shout out for .ico files also?!?

re: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:20:02 +0000

Author: Craig Wiseman
Comment: IBM loves standards, right?

re: Single Idea Widget

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:12:42 +0000

Author: Phil Randolph
Comment: Ask and ye shall receive since yesterday! :)

re: Single Idea Widget

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:48:34 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: It's here. Cool!!

re: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:29:50 +0000

Author: Andrew Pollack
Comment: I put these in as file resources, but its not as good.

re: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:39:58 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: @3, yeah, you can use them on the web by putting them in as file resources, but the critical part is "and have them render in the notes client". So it's not just about sticking them in the right bucket.

re: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:10:29 +0000

Author: Adam Brown
Comment: I also just tried to use the Google Charts API which provides PNG's. No good for Lotus Notes and the Notes client won't render the returned PNG. Very sad!

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:12:57 +0000

Author: Richard Schwartz
Comment: I like the idea of a visual representation of the ratio, but I wouldn't do it with background color. How about this:

A few pixels to the left of the box, there's a thin vertical line, the same height as the box. Actually, it's 20 segments stuck together. All segments grey means no votes cast. Starting from the middle and going up, the ten top segments are green for 10% promotes, 20% promotes, etc. Starting from the middle and going down, the bottom ten segments are green for 10% demotes, 20% demotes, etc.

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:06:31 +0000

Author: Slawek Rogulski
Comment: I like Richard's idea of showing both promotes and demotes.

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:04:49 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: I'm not to fussed on the detail of the layout, background or separate, so I'd be happy to see suggestions that people think are more appealing.

@Rich, I'm not sure what your suggestion of splitting the promote and demote sections of the bar achieves. Is it so you can see abstentions? Personally I'd prefer to filter out abstentions from this display, but I'd also prefer something to nothing. The biggest thing is that at the moment I have to look open the idea to have any idea if it's a controversial issue or not.

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:33:53 +0000

Author: Richard Schwartz
Comment: @Kerr, Really wasn't thinking so much about abstentions -- but yes, what I described does do that, though I wouldn't say that they would jump out "at a glance". Anyhow, my primary motivation was to find a way to minimize the amount of color and the different shades of color used to convey the info. I really just envision it as a slim bar graph, showing positive and negative amounts collapsed into a single column.

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:47:08 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: @Rich. Maybe I'm miss-reading you. This is how I've interpreted what you've suggested: Assuming no abstentions / abstentions not included.

We have 20 segments in a vertical line. From top to bottom...

100% promote / 0% demote = 10 green, 10 grey
90% promote / 10% demote = 1 grey, 10 green, 9 grey
80% promote / 20% demote = 2 grey, 10 green, 8 grey
70% promote / 30% demote = 3 grey, 10 green, 7 grey
60% promote / 40% demote = 4 grey, 10 green, 6 grey
50% promote / 50% demote = 5 grey, 10 green, 5 grey
40% promote / 60% demote = 6 grey, 10 green, 4 grey
30% promote / 70% demote = 7 grey, 10 green, 3 grey
20% promote / 80% demote = 8 grey, 10 green, 2 grey
10% promote / 90% demote = 9 grey, 10 green, 1 grey
0% promote / 100% demote = 10 grey, 10 green

You aways get a green bar of size 10, because the vote always adds up to 100%.

I'd go more for something like:

We have 10 segments in a vertical line. From top to bottom...

100% promote / 0% demote = 10 green
90% promote / 10% demote = 9 green, 1 red
80% promote / 20% demote = 8 green, 2 red
70% promote / 30% demote = 7 green, 3 red
60% promote / 40% demote = 6 green, 4 red
50% promote / 50% demote = 5 green, 5 red
40% promote / 60% demote = 4 green, 6 red
30% promote / 70% demote = 3 green, 7 red
20% promote / 80% demote = 2 green, 8 red
10% promote / 90% demote = 1 green, 9 red
0% promote / 100% demote = 10 red

re: Allow .png and .svg image resources

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:55:42 +0000

Author: Michael Sobczak
Comment: And how about .TIFF?

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:12:23 +0000

Author: Richard Schwartz
Comment: Aha! I see the source of confusion! I wrote it up wrong!

I wrote: "Starting from the middle and going up, the ten top segments are green for 10% promotes, 20% promotes, etc. Starting from the middle and going down, the bottom ten segments are green for 10% demotes, 20% demotes, etc."

I meant: "Starting from the middle and going up, the ten top segments are green for 10% promotes, 20% promotes, etc. Starting from the middle and going down, the bottom ten segments are RED for 10% demotes, 20% demotes, etc."

Which is what your latter example shows.

To be more specific, there are 20 segments in a vertical line. Let's say there have been 10 votes cast: 7 promote, 3 demote. Here's your stack of segments:

grey
grey
grey
greeen
greeen
greeen
greeen
greeen
greeen
greeen
red
red
red
grey
grey
grey
grey
grey
grey
grey

re: At a Glance Vote Ratio

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:41:48 +0000

Author: Kerr Rainey
Comment: Yeah, I wondered if that might be the case ;)

Effectively that means the coloured section in your example would be exactly the same as my whole bar. Yours just moves up and down on a grey background.