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Inventing Situations Is Ready for 2005!

I’ve just unleashed a bunch of updates to Inventing Situations that bring it in line with the state of the art maybe five years ago. For a side project, that’s Not Horrible, I suppose. Some highlights:

  • Navigation free capping: No more shuttling between the gallery and the newest screengrab. Everything’s on one page, the gallery still autoupdates, and now as soon as a new grab is available, a thumbnail appears that you can click to cap.
  • Chat! After years of resisting and arguing against, I’ve finally given in and added chat. In part because I figured out what I think is a sufficiently unobtrusive way to present it that still doesn’t require cappers to switch it on. With things like the favorites gallery making captions available out of context, I should’ve given cappers a way to remove their chat from their captions ages ago. You do need to be mindful of the caption/chat button, and I’m not crazy about it appearing before the gallery, but it was the best compromise I could come up with.
  • The autocappomatic is in a transitional state. I’m tempted to remove it all together, but for now, editing one of its captions means you get full credit.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome. Keep in mind that while I’ve made an effort to make the site usable without javascript, a lot of the new features hardly translate without it.

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2 Responses to “Inventing Situations Is Ready for 2005!”

  1. GersonK Says:
    March 1st, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    I’ve already gotten a few bug reports. We’re working on them:
    – Auto-scroll should be added for the chat & preview grabs real soon [Should be working, although it is a little wonky - GK 3/4/9 2:30 PM]
    – Some FF3 users report they have to hit refresh to see their captions.
    – IE6 users aren’t seeing edits they make to captions. I may have a fix for this. [Fixed some of the cases of this- GK 3/4/9 2:30 PM]

  2. GersonK Says:
    March 6th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    Repairs continue:
    – The site should now work again for Safari users, if any.
    – Double posts: sometimes you’ll see your cap twice. Nobody else will see it twice, and refreshing the page removes the dupe. Working
    on this.
    – Still working on the FF3 issue and the invisible edits (it looks like the edits are being made, but the page isn’t redrawing properly.)

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