October 29, 2009

New release – show rating, top shows, rss, and further SEO

We have just deployed a new release of the TV Genius platform including the following new functionality:

  • Show rating in search and recommendations components, including Storing of rating against user profiles and use in recommendations
  • A new show widget, providing details for a specific show.
  • A new top shows component that displays the top shows on TV over the next few days
  • A new channel view displaying one channel at a time with navigation to other channels
  • Full RSS support for searches and email reminders
  • SEO support: link from the listings grid to full details for a particular channel with a SEO friendly URL
  • Initial support for semantic HTML in accessible and show details components

This release also includes the following bug fixes:

  • Improved accessible component with enhanced structure for screen readers, new navigation options, and improved performance
  • Support within the listings component for advertising or other content within the grid
  • New day navigation options for the listings grid
  • Added option button pop-up option for changing region and broadcaster
  • New lightbox functionality to allow greying out of background when pop over functionality is displayed
  • iTunes affiliate tracking support
  • Now support top shows in clips component
  • Now changed hour drop down to a range of times.
  • Added support for pixel tracking to german out of the box
  • Now rename package “Sky & Cable” to “Satellite & Cable2
  • Added some additional structure to the accessible component to ease navigation using screen readers
  • Optimised the performance of localised Javascript
  • Fixed situation where some episode and repeats searches started on page 2.
  • Deprecated tvgHighestRank parameter
  • Deprecated explicit search for flagged listings from small screen XML feed – now only uses enhanced search syntax
  • Deprecated channel zoom div from the listings component
  • Improved Ajax error handling
  • Added extra classes for search slices to ease styling
  • Fixed some bugs in cache handling
  • Now support tvgClockStyle in accessible component
  • Fixes to SSO integration to ensure support for storing tvgContact and tvgPasswordHash in a cookie
  • Improved performance of XML channel list
  • No longer show repeats links if repeats:on
  • Improved day handling in search nav component
  • Improved handling of parameters in querystrings
  • Updated formatting for search component when sorting scheduled shows by start.
  • Updated new reminder component to support tvgContact not being set
  • Now include search phrase in quotation marks
  • Changed encoding for all Javascript to UTF-8 to prevent problems with foreign characters
  • Optimised channel list and now use local time not UTC time when displaying days
  • No longer include empty episodes links in show details component
  • Now localise All Channels / My Channels button
  • Added localisation support to new reminder component
  • now clear the listings category when setting the channel genre
  • Listings component now retains the visible time frame in magazine view when scrolling between channels
  • Support for channel logos in xml feeds
  • Now link previous/next weeks buttons to primetime
  • Added a span to the recommendations title
  • Added flags to small screen XML feed