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Awesome Flash World Cup calendar

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130 pointsrichardw36 comments

This is not merely just a calendar, but can be viewed more like a "pivot table". The dimensions are Teams (Groups are just groups of Teams), Cities, and Time. Pick one, and it shows you the intersections with the other two (well, shows matches and places the teams in the matches). Very clever UI design for a traditional "Business Intelligence" report in the Enterprise world. Perhaps something like this is applicable to http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html. The trick is that this "calendar" has limited amount of items in each dimension.

This has come full circle for me. I received a link to it from Argentina, even though I live in Spain and Marca is a Spanish magazine. I showed it to my workmates and most had not seen it, and agreed that it was very well designed. Now I see it #1 in HN! It's viral promotion in its best expression.

It would be fun to try and do this with CSS transforms, transitions, :target selectors and a bit of javascript.

This is not awesome, this is merely circular.

One major problem: how can I see the data I want without leaving my mouse hovering over the right segment?

For example, I hover over England (out in the quarters as per usual), move my mouse to foreground a Skype window so I can organise some bevs with my friends (IRL I have none, this is just an example), and lo- I am now seeing Bloemfontein data. Grr.

Alt-tab works. You can alt-tab to your email and still mouse around the UI. It's not perfect but it works.

Yes everyone here knows that. But it's not really the point is it? I mean I can also move my mouse out through the very narrow channel between the different segments of the annulus!

Instead I'm going to use a calendar that doesn't have all the drawbacks of flash, that integrates with existing calendar/pim apps, and that - bonus item - doesn't have a broken ui.

(EDIT: BTW I used to love Tudumo back in my Windows days, cheers)

For what it's worth it's not a drawback of Flash, the developer's just using the mouse out event to trigger changes. People make bad choices in all languages.

Awesome, thanks for the btw! You on Linux/Mac?

Linux, Emacs and Org-Mode http://orgmode.org/

Anything else is just heresy and witchcraft :)

It's definitely got an interesting UI, but I can't see myself actually using it during the tournament.

On a similar theme, the best ical world cup calendar I've found is here:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1m...

Thanks - hadn't seen that one.

Interesting that the countries are alphabetized in Spanish even though they are displayed in English. Oops.

Spain = Espana USA = Estados Unidos France = France (or something)

The timezone is an issue. I'd prefer to see the times in my timezone rather than South Africa.

Doesn't strike me as awesome in any way. What's worse, it's pretty slow and jumpy.

If you are on a BB download this one: http://bit.ly/4LgF2K is fantastic!

Why are you hiding this binary behind bit.ly? Why not the webpage for this app?

Because the site is in Spanish. That link was taken from their web page.

A bit paranoid are we?

http://s42.com.ve/s42Mundial/

Out of curiosity, what's up with the down votes?

Some bad mouth would say "You can do it in HTML5", but I guess it's flash because it's called World cup, not Apple cup. (oops)

I think I would be able to make it work in IE6 with css and a bit of javascript.

I'd like to see you make it all work like that and with fonts in, not all images ;-)

The text in the example isn't selectable, searchable, SEO-able, cut'n'pastable and probably isn't accessible, so why would images of text be worse?

I don't think it's about cut'n'paste or SEO but about file size and flexibility.

Helps me take a hi resolution print-out without worrying about unreadable text.

The images pixelate even in full screen mode, it's hardly designed for high rez print-outs. Quite hard to print with the hover effect.

SVG and JavaScript (using something like jQuery SVG) might not be too bad.

Ill create a GUI interface using visual basic - link for reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

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Fuck Flash & fuck Apple too for good measure.

This is HN. Telling us about raphaeljs is good enough. Please keep comments civil.

Im sorry but the demos there as simple as they are running pretty bad on my mac.

HTML5 is nowhere near being able to produce something like that anytime soon.

It's not just about making it so that it works, it's about making it so that it works smoothly.

Fair enough so it can't be done in HTML. Is it possible to have a simple HTML version for when Flash is not available? Flash is not available to most mobile users.

Android users don't have Flash yet either.

I have Froyo , and can confirm that the calender works fine on N1.

Hrmm... how do you switch between views since they're triggered by hover on the desktop? It might actually work better on a mobile device since the hover switching is actually annoying, and would have been much better implemented on click instead.

I am not sure I understand what you mean?

Is it possible to have a simple HTML version of an iPhone app or an iPad app?

Sure it is but but what is the point. I am pretty sure this is not made to be for everyone. Lowest common nominator obviously has it's merits. But let's not kill experimentation in the name of standards.

Yes they do. They just don't have flash 10 yet. (Though some with a Nexus One already got Froyo and therefore do have it.)

Do it, then, please. Would really like to see it.

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