[Qgis-developer] Visual changelog and animated gifs

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 06 Jul 2016, at 1:11 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> On 06-07-16 12:06, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>> Webpages with too many animations let me freak out. It distracts from
>>> the content the user is focusing on.
>>> 
>>> Any other opinions on this?
>> 
>> As always please file issues at in the changelog tracker and we will
>> happily implement good ideas...
> 
> Note that the 'final destination' of the Visual Changelog is not so much
> the tracker, as it is the website. So probably it will end up at a page
> like:
> 
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog214/index.html
> 
> of which the sources are here:
> 
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Website/tree/master/source/site/forusers/visualchangelog214
> 
> No use to update the tracker I think?

I meant to say above that if you need the changelog authoring site to do something different, it is better to file a ticket there (https://github.com/kartoza/projecta/issues). That could also cover issues relating to how the RST export is managed.

> 
> We could off course add libraries to the website templates, but I would
> prefer to add only animated gif's to changes if they are REALLY
> benefitting what you want to show....

OK, I'll put more static images and less GIF's. We could also make the RST exporter just export static images from the GIF's - only thing then is that we need to be sure a relevant frame is used for the snapshot. For now lets bias ourselves towards static images and for the next release cycle we can figure out a 'best of both worlds' approach...

> 
> But as said: IF those are really needed please find a small library (or
> just a few lines of javascript) which is safe to add to the javascripts
> in the website.

Ok thanks lets keep that as an option too for the few GIF's we do include.

Regards

Tim

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
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