VideoPlayer styling update (day 1)

[Novak, Alexey]

Sounds like someone had an extremely productive day yesterday. This is lots of work done in one day, Colin!

I think we can take a look into caption positioning later today since their positioning is calculated dynamically based on how many rows of text should be displayed on the screen. I'm pretty sure that we will be able to place them whenever we want but most likely through the modifications of the captionator.js file.

Will take care of the tests in the uber branch right now, will keep you posted.

Thanks,
Alex

On 2012-02-23, at 9:02 PM, Clark, Colin wrote:

> Hey Video Player team,
> 
> Today was not my best day. Styling the Video Player proved a lot more complex than I had hoped (developers are so optimistic!). After struggling with the various half-finished styling branches that were floating out there I gave up and started from scratch with small, incremental steps. Here's a quick update of where I left it for tonight:
> 
> * the buttons in the controller are positioned as seen in the hifi mockups
> * the controller is now floating over the video and is semi-transparent
> * the scrubber takes up (almost) the full width of the video. I'll need to do a lot more styling to the UI Slider tomorrow
> 
> The biggest issue at the moment is that the scrubber is now hovering over the caption area. Does anyone know if Captionator can be told where to position its captions? A bottom offset or something would be very useful.
> 
> This work is currently in my own fork, but I'd like to merge it into the demo branch as soon as we've figured out how to move the captions around.
> 
> https://github.com/colinbdclark/videoPlayer/tree/FLUID-4596
> 
> Tomorrow, I will:
> 
> 1. style the buttons so that they look identical to the mockups. 
> 2. try to change the UI Slider into the scrubber we've always wanted
> 3. add hover handlers for showing and hiding the controller
> 4. start to wrangle the issue of the menu buttons (captions, transcripts) and the volume button
> 
> Favours I need:
> 
> 1. Can someone look into positioning Captionator's captions in a sane way?
> 2. Joanna, can you slice up the images for all the buttons for me, if you haven't already had a chance to do so? Or if you're super-busy, fire me a layered PS document and I can do it. Up to you.
> 3. I really love good, working unit tests...
> 
> Colin
> 
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> Colin Clark
> Lead Software Architect,
> Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University
> http://inclusivedesign.ca
>