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Significant enhancements to the TV Genius platform

Monday, July 21, 2008, posted by Tom Weiss
We've just deployed a new build with significant enhancements to the platform including:
  • Improved search results paging
    • Now link to next/previous and 10 pages
    • Now page repeats searches
    • Optionally include search navigation both above and below the results
  • Support for show images and links to supporting pages
  • New My settings component
  • New configurable widget for syndicating content across multiple sites
  • Support for Ajax ad proxy
This build also includes the following minor enhancements:
  • Improved Ajax scrolling
  • Increased default Ajax cache size to 10
  • Accessibility component
  • Shows now optionally clickable
  • Support for single channel by channel name
  • Now support all listings, not just subtitled or audio described
  • Option to split search results between exact and related searches
  • New navigation form in search navigation component
  • Support paging of favourite channels in magazine view
  • Support for links in small screen XML feed
  • Support for text only reminders and multiple short codes
  • Support separation of search results into exact and related searches
  • Support for region/time navigation in search navigation component
  • Support for more short codes
  • More configurable Video search component
  • Configurable search sets
  • Configurable default images
We have also fixed the following bugs:
  • Target parameter was being ignored when opening windows
  • Server error messages now hidden from snoopers
  • Strings were not being localised in some situations
  • Now ask the user to wait if the Ajax URL is greate than 2083 characters and there is no Ajax proxy present.
  • Now use channel_logo_long classes in viewreminders component.
  • Limit the number of favourite channels to 15
  • Added additional span to mouseover
  • Broadcaster and thumbnail URL now configurable in video search component
  • Video search component now uses specified pop up style
  • Improved opening of new windows
  • No longer display the add channel pop-up if the maximum number of channels is set
  • Now display buttons in the footer in magazine view if tvgListingsRepeatHeader is set to YesAndButtons
  • Now support category searches
  • Fixed type in class name of tvg_channel
  • Optimised reporting
  • No longer highlight summarise around search terms in search results if they match on the title
  • No longer highlight apostrophes in search results for episodes or repeats
  • Use same classes in magazine view mouseover and EPG view
  • Improved Ajax error handling
  • Handling of favourite channels list boxes now works in all browsers
  • Now add channels to the top of the list box to prevent channels from being hidden
  • Now always write “<script>” and “<scr>” to prevent browser misinterpretation
  • Bug fix: now return English string if no localised string is available
  • Security enhancements: Now hide custom errors in .net 2
  • Various localisation bug fixes where text was previously shown in English rather than the local language
  • Now always update cookies: in some circumstances cookies were previously being lost
  • Use additional classes for long show titles in details component

Previous posts

  1. TV Genius Powers UK's First Guide to Online TV Wednesday, May 21, 2008
  2. New build of the TV Genius Tuesday, April 15, 2008
  3. Office move Monday, March 31, 2008
  4. New build of the TV Genius Wednesday, March 12, 2008
  5. New build Wednesday, January 30, 2008
  6. First release for 2008 Friday, January 04, 2008
  7. Update to TV Genius web components Friday, November 23, 2007
  8. Launch of data warehouse Wednesday, October 17, 2007
  9. New Build of the TV Genius Web Components Monday, October 15, 2007
  10. Minor Build of the TV Genius Web Components Monday, September 24, 2007