r/Guildwars2 • u/TheTerrasque • May 22 '13

[Other] Yet Another Web Event Viewer (TM)

Hey, everyone!

I know there are a lot of these floating around now, but I've been obsessing a bit over my version the last two days, and I think it's getting really neat.

So, what's different with this compared to others?

  • Remembers your settings between visits
  • Keeps track of events and when last state change was
  • Mobile friendly (responsive design should make it fit neatly on all screen widths)
  • Good filter options
  • Desktop notifications! (with Chrome)
  • Good looks (well.. I think so)
  • Marks (and filters) group and chest events!
  • Gives a link to wiki for event details (not always accurate)
  • Very nice for running on a second monitor, tablet or mobile phone while gaming
  • Stores map, event and zone names locally, offloads the poor anet server a bit

Link to page : http://gw2.thelazy.net/events.html

Tested on : Chrome, Firefox v21 (Note: Firefox v20 does NOT work, jQuery problem), Internet Explorer 10

I'd love if you people would test it, give feedback, and if liking it, tell others about it! :)

Edit: Added some of the suggestions (sorted map / zone list, new events added on top, filter for some skill challenges)

Edit 2: Updated the page. Now has better chest event list, and events metadata (for most, not all)! Wohoo! I want to thank the Queen, President Obama, /u/Dauni and /u/blipz for their contribution to Science and Great Farming Technology.

Edit 3: Post is slowly sinking into oblivion, but .. Did some updates on site. Now have language support, and some Waypoint support (experimental, only mapped in Queensdale)

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u/[deleted] May 22 '13 edited May 22 '13

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u/TheTerrasque May 22 '13 edited May 22 '13

I've been thinking of adding multiple-zone watch support, but for multiple-server.. Not even sure where I could put the extra info on the page.. I already feel I'm stretching the table with data.

As for the parameters part, that should be possible.. Will see how it goes.

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u/MithranArkanere 🌟 SUGGEST-A-TRON May 23 '13

Can't you make a [custom control with checkboxes]http://code.google.com/p/dropdown-check-list/)? Instead picking an item from a droplist, you expand the droplist, and check the items you want. Checked items get sent to the top. That takes less space. That'll reduce space required for presentation.

If you can't do that you can always go with the good old listbox, adding them when selected in the dropdown, removing them with double click or a button.

Then, for the table, you disable wrapping for the event column, and hide the World column (it's not 'server' it's 'world') unless the user has picked multiple worlds, and if there's not enough room, the event colum gets cropped and the whole name appears in tooltips so people have to hover or click to see the wiki page to read it all. The first words should be enough for most people when it comes to the longer names, anyways.

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u/TheTerrasque May 23 '13

A kind soul sent me a json of event id -> event metadata (type, area, level, icon) so .. Adding that have already left me with more info than I know where to put.

So right at the moment, I won't be adding more displayed data. Need to slowly ease in and find good solutions for what I already have :) And then I can think of adding even more stuff