Progress for GeckoBoard Rip
Progress so far with the Geckoboard Rip:
1440x1000 layout:
Moveable - The Dashboard is rearrangeable. Take a look at the screenshots provided. Snaps to a grid, so you can keep everything clean.
Rearranged:
Responsive Design - Dashboard has a default setting of 1440 for now. Each column is a perfect 240px, so the dashboard can be adjusted without huge CSS knowledge. Just make the adjustment divisible by 240px (240, 480, 720, 960, 1200, 1440, 1600, 1920, etc). Take a look at the screenshots provided.
Responsive:
Mobile / Tablets - You will be able to adjust it relatively easily for mobile. You can have it so the mobile always zooms in, or you see the big version on the mobile. (It's currently impossible to actually drag the boxes on mobile - something to do with the touch, bla bla.)
Dashboard runs on Jquery's Ajax function, So you can call literally anything. I've got an RSS feed of Wickedfire, built in Perl running, then I have a couple of php scripts also being called.
Each box has a countdown timer in the lower left corner. Once the time is up, it refreshes the box/ajax call with content, according.
Currently built on: HTML 5, CSS3, Jquery, Highcharts (but I might remove it in favor of CSS3 graphics). Oh great news, the movability is being provided by Jquery UI, so you people can go crazy with customization, since it has the library installed.
There is are two last thing I am working on, for the barebones section, One is saving the positioning of the boxes in cookie format. Otherwise movability is completely useless once reset. The 2nd is Adding more design, css based, so you can call all the fancy up and down arrows that geckoboard has.
Side note: Geckoboard doesn't know what it's doing. A lot of bullshit. For the barebones, you are going to need a little programming knowledge, like creating ajax calls, but it's okay, since I already have plenty of examples running.
Getting the barebones to read JSON is on my list for tomorrow. If anyone is interested in getting a quick preview and helping me test a couple of things, PM me or respond here.
Total size: 239K, with 12 http requests when loading. Adding the wickedfire icon, took up an http. I'm a minimalist, so the lighter I can make it, the easier it will be for everyone to build on. 93K of the size is simply the Jquery library, 54K going toward highcharts library. That's 61% of the actual size just in those 2 libraries. I am sure I am being anal, since the total size is only 239K with 12 http requests, but if I remove highcharts, that reduces the size by 23% - All this shit means it, it's going to be fast as fuck.
Almost there, Good night bros.