Gauges project on oven....

[JacquesD]

Hi Everybody!

As David says, I try to do simple setup for beginners. As mentionned in earlier message, I wan't to give to the mass with easy add-on. We are "Geeks" and are loving to have some 'juice' for our brain. But i'm on my way to do a complete amateur site based on v1 of meteostours.ca and that base will be purely plain html.

But for all type of users, I dream of flashy to elegant Dashboards. For beginers, it could be some kind of gauges.htm replacements, but for us the same base could be a challenge! Simple xml to parameter the gauges and users sharing their gauges like skins to other software. By those skins, if we "K.I.S.S.", Designers and Graphist wil surely join us! In that way Cumulus will be more adaptable to a larger base... of "taste".

But you know, I've found near a dozen of gauges library free in Java/Javascript/php and others, often black only!. But Bindows is by far the more simple and versatile gauge library. But free things are often coming with some "quirks". We have to work on those "limitations", because Bindows has promise new version since 2009 and nothing on horizon.

But Bindows is not the ONLY answer. I'm working on pure php gauges for expert sites and hate IE immobility for html 5 adoption; because "Canvas" will be THE answer for many of us! I'm dreamer for the mass and I have always done some "Dash" experimentations where a real needle rotate on a real gauge photo!

But, for now, I work with bindows. I saw some rare beauty with those gauges... and I think we can surely do a great job!

Thanks for your comments,

Jacques

[JacquesD]

Hi!

For the browser compatibility factor, I think that we have to do our best to be "more compatible then browsers are", but be realist with the results. I personnaly use browsershots.org to test my pages, as Blind Institute Browser Test... and attempt to be 95% proof.

But I think too that users of "exotix" browsers have allways a "straight" browser beside for those "bad" sites. Personnaly at work, I love my OperaUSB... but I have to switch for particular sites. At home, I love my new iPad... but he hate Flash...

Then nothing's perfect in this world!

Jacques

[Synewave]

Then nothing's perfect in this world! Jacques

Apart from Cumulus of course