(firstly, that search works fine and returns very quickly! Now that I know it's client side, I've been able to do a few searches of my own to see how it works. It works well! The ones I did earlier were looking at a large channel "PBS Newshour" for various news topics over "All time")
(secondly, DO consider putting your email address on your HN profile!)
Whoa! Client side!?! Far out man, far out. To be honest, I was a little unimpressed before -- but didn't feel like "your idea is _brilliant_, but implementation leaves a lot to be desired. makes me want to try my hand at writing my own." would be a constructive comment. ;-)
But, knowing this is all done client side?? I tip my hat, that's *clever*! The whole site could be a static and local set of files? I had no idea things like this could even be done without a server or other real program to do the work. (though now that I think about it, I have an idea how, duh. YouTube exposes a JS API I bet, so you can have the client call it each time, do the searching work, &c.)
That avoids scalability issues and probably legal ones as well! What a game changer...
Was there an existing framework used for building client side web apps like this, or did you roll your own?
While I've got you, and I admit that graphical UIs are ... an area where my opinion should carry no weight (I'm the sort who.. doesn't use icons, and when writing personal tools, the "user interface" is positional parameters to a command line program ;-)), here are some suggestions:
* The UI, while clean and unbusy (yay!!), feels BLOATED with white space. Why do the results occupy this tiny narrow column, forcing me to scroll way more than I should need to?
* In addition to the narrow column, the entries IN the column take up too much space, the UI could be arranged to be much more efficient.
* Since search results are within a channel, don't put the channel name after each entry, there's no point.
* Might be nice to have the time offset visible to the left of the text excerpt. I can see it on mouseover, but still. Might be nice to see.
* Can the videos be made to play inline, without redirecting to youtube, then navigating back, and redoing the search?
* Perhaps, after searching for a result, we could see a graph at the top showing all the videos containing that term over time, and easily click on it to go directly there.
(secondly, DO consider putting your email address on your HN profile!)
Whoa! Client side!?! Far out man, far out. To be honest, I was a little unimpressed before -- but didn't feel like "your idea is _brilliant_, but implementation leaves a lot to be desired. makes me want to try my hand at writing my own." would be a constructive comment. ;-)
But, knowing this is all done client side?? I tip my hat, that's *clever*! The whole site could be a static and local set of files? I had no idea things like this could even be done without a server or other real program to do the work. (though now that I think about it, I have an idea how, duh. YouTube exposes a JS API I bet, so you can have the client call it each time, do the searching work, &c.)
That avoids scalability issues and probably legal ones as well! What a game changer...
Was there an existing framework used for building client side web apps like this, or did you roll your own?
While I've got you, and I admit that graphical UIs are ... an area where my opinion should carry no weight (I'm the sort who.. doesn't use icons, and when writing personal tools, the "user interface" is positional parameters to a command line program ;-)), here are some suggestions:
* The UI, while clean and unbusy (yay!!), feels BLOATED with white space. Why do the results occupy this tiny narrow column, forcing me to scroll way more than I should need to?
* In addition to the narrow column, the entries IN the column take up too much space, the UI could be arranged to be much more efficient.
* Since search results are within a channel, don't put the channel name after each entry, there's no point.
* Might be nice to have the time offset visible to the left of the text excerpt. I can see it on mouseover, but still. Might be nice to see.
* Can the videos be made to play inline, without redirecting to youtube, then navigating back, and redoing the search?
* Perhaps, after searching for a result, we could see a graph at the top showing all the videos containing that term over time, and easily click on it to go directly there.