Presentation fixes 18th June '24

[edwardchalstrey1]

• If year from and year to are not recorded for absent/present or categorical vars, substitute in the duration years by default
• Change how the unocded/ no Seshat page for absent/present or categorical vars are handled - Jim's suggestion:

  • In the current variable display you have uncoded as a sort of pink but I too easily begin to think of that as absent (red) without another compelling example at the same time. I propose that you display uncoded in grey like ‘no seshat page’ (but give it a black border to indicate there is a page). Subtle yes but I think less misleading and it tells RAs/experts where missing codes are more easily. The legend should just list ‘Uncoded’; clicking on a grey shape will tell you if you have a seshat page or not.

  • One problem with this could be that having the GADM borders underneath historical polities that both have black borders could look a bit confusing - so give polities a grey border?
  • Solution: Keep the coloured borders for polities, but just make uncoded grey and drop from legend

• I see the ‘coded unknown’ has a black border which stands out well. Why don’t the present/absent/present_to_absent/absent_to_present have a similar black border rather than their (same) color

  • Answer: when you have GADM selected there are already black borders for the current borders
• Improve or comment out the 'Switch to' button

  • ‘Switch to’ button confusing and would drop it for the moment

• The legend clicking is a bit buggy, should we remove it for now and restore it later when we get to #130 ?

  • I would drop The legend altogether in Polity mode.

  • Answer: I don't think this should be removed as it it works well for looking at a selection of polities of interest, especially where colours are similar

• Drop the Opacity slider as this doesn't help

  • Answer: I think this should be kept so the user has max controls over the visuals
• Consider restoring the years/second value in the animation options (the problem before is this won't be very accurate as it slows down when more shapes are displayed)
  • Do this for polity pages too
• > I think you can eliminate the ‘instructions’ since it is easy enough to discover everything except the double-clicking.
• Can we lock the zoom so that you can't go further out than one Earth?
• Make GADM basemap 0.5 white fill instead of blank
  • Can't remember why I said this
• Make world map fonts/themes up to date with the rest of the Seshat site - moved to #110
• #165
• Add increments for the +/- buttons - moved to #110
• Make polity map twice as big
• Tidy world map side panel including adding the selected year in the same font as on the polity map

[edwardchalstrey1]

TODO

• Complete the items above
• Merge #170
• Update the middleware branch and test site
• email Jim Bennett with responses and bug report