Give a more obvious indication when it's the user's turn to act
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This could involve some sort of blinking (<blink> tag is of course the preferred method). Duck noises, Twitter posts have also been suggested. Investigation into using USAF connections to initiate drone "encouragement" should also be done.
Drone encouragement should be default in jQuery this year.
Can you something to make the window/tab flash, like when you get a gChat message and gMail is not the active window?
@PheonixKotori I've never done that before, and after a little research it seems that browsers that support the window/tab flash are just responding to a change in document.title, which is easy enough to implement. I'm also going to add some other visual indication in the hand area.
Is an audio cue still desired? If so, I'll consider that too, but playing audio when the window/tab is active seems like it could be obnoxious.
I'm not in love with an audio cue anymore. It doesn't work consistently in
Chrome with Gmail/Gchat and it's their own browser, so I'd not bother.
In-game visual cuing and manipulating document.title will be swell.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 1:12 PM, JackieChiles notifications@github.com
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@PheonixKotori https://github.com/PheonixKotori I've never done that
before, and after a little research it seems that browsers that support the
window/tab flash are just responding to a change in document.title, which
is easy enough to implement. I'm also going to add some other visual
indication in the hand area.Is an audio cue still desired? If so, I'll consider that too, but playing
audio when the window/tab is active seems like it could be obnoxious.—
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#164 (comment).
A note on notifications: they will only be displayed with the Cinch window/tab is not active. They are also not yet supported in some browsers (IE), but we've established that we're not overly concerned about supporting lesser browsers. Web Notifications are currently a W3C working draft, so they will likely be more fully supported ultimately.
I opted to not go the route of toggling the document.title to make the window/tab flash, because this is non-standard functionality and the code is a lot uglier.
Of course feedback is welcome, as always.