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The recent changes to the video playlist view looks good but functionally is a step back. The viewer now needs to mouse over each video icon to just view the title, a big waste of time.
There should be a setting/option to have the title visible on or under the icons all the time. Not just during mouseover.
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Hello DSwan34,
thank you for your feedback, our goal here is to really improve the default design of our templates for playlists.
It does make perfect sense to me thought that one template does not fit all situations so we are 1. making other templates available 2. planning to provide documentation on how to create and customise your own templates.
Your suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Martin
Hello DSwan34,
we discussed this further in our team and made some decision.
FV Player 6.2.3 was just released and it will show the captions for mobile devices all the time. For these it’s required as you can’t hover over the playlist items there.
We will be adding a drop down with playlist design presents with option to create your own.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi DSwan,
The new playlists default templates are awesome and modern. The old ones were really dowdy and old school and should have been changed a long time ago. To make sure people actually got something modern, we changed the default style.
On the other hand, our programming team should have the old playlist template available as an alternative (not default) option so that those who prefer it or have it worked into a complex design or specific interface can easily revert to it.
The next step will be to allow easy customisation of the templates. As everyone who wants to customise a template will have very specific requests and requirements, it’s best to let people set them up as they like, not just CSS but also the HTML.
Thanks for your feedback though! It allowed us to make immediate improvements to the new playlist theme and encouraged us to make at least two design themes available ASAP.
Thanks for being part of Foliovision!
Hi DSwan,
The new playlists default templates are awesome and modern. The old ones were really dowdy and old school and should have been changed a long time ago. To make sure people actually got something modern, we changed the default style.
On the other hand, our programming team should have the old playlist template available as an alternative (not default) option so that those who prefer it or have it worked into a complex design or specific interface can easily revert to it.
The next step will be to allow easy customisation of the templates. As everyone who wants to customise a template will have very specific requests and requirements, it’s best to let people set them up as they like, not just CSS but also the HTML.
Thanks for your feedback though! It allowed us to make immediate improvements to the new playlist theme and encouraged us to make at least two design themes available ASAP.
Thanks for being part of Foliovision!
The new style does look good but removing the titles without an option to keep them on was a mistake.
I look forward to having more options like that in future versions.
I’d also strongly suggest making the next and previous arrows an option in multiple styles.thanks.
Hi DSwan34,.
No titles on mobile was not great – my fault as I’m not a big mobile user and didn’t realise right away there is no hover on the thumbnails. We are going to work on having multiple designs rather than a bunch of options for a single design. So there will be a version with titles again similar to the older version. End users will be able to customise the different designs.
We’re experimenting with what will be options for the designs. In my opinion, FV Player is already overbuilt with too many options in too many places, so I’m most interested right now in streamlining. We may start to move some of the more marginal/dangerous preferences into a configuration file. The idea would be to consolidate preferences on current best practices (we’re carrying a lot of legacy preferences that made sense in a pre-HTML 5 world with less capable browsers and lots of flash).
Thanks for your feedback!
