Monday, 8 October 2007

WebWideWord - New Updates

Some minor updates to the WebWideWord came over the weekend. These are: -
  • Display the link associated with the word in the tooltip box.
    I was planning on displaying this in the browser status bar until I discovered that this isn't accessible in Javascript within IE7 with the default security settings. Someone asked for the URL to be shown as they were cautious to click on a link when they had no idea where it may take them.
  • New headline messages
    I've added three new headline messages to the page. These are to indicate how long it is since a word was clicked, what the last word clicked was and the character dimensions of the word grid (Thanks to Andrew for the last suggestion).
  • Sponsor Links
    The site now has two sponsors.
    These are FlightSimX (http://www.flightsimx.co.uk/) which is a wonderful resource for those of you who are interested in flight simulators and MJ Artworks (http://www.mjartworks.co.uk/) who can provide, from a photograph, a hand drawn pencil portrait of your pet.
    Thanks to both for your support.

One problem that has been highlighted is that the word grid is a fixed size. I intend to look at generating the grid in a size that will fit into the browser window space that is available. I will also aim to make it resize if the browser window itself is resized.

Watch this space .....

..... and remember "Spread the WebWideWord"

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