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["Will Hawkins" <>]

On Saturday, February 8, 2014 08:44 EST, Tiziana Refice 
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> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Aaron Brown 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> >  Hey Sebastian,
> >
> >  On Feb 7, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Sebastian Kostuch 
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > after comparing flash and java clients I have prepared some initial list
> > of suggestions/improvements which could be done to make the flash one
> > better. Please check them and let me know which one are worth/not worth
> > doing. Also if you have something to add feel free to announce it in
> > response :)
> >
> > Flash client improvements:
> > 1. Add some basic options at start page (for example prefered IP protocol,
> > server name)
> >
> >
> >  I'd prefer these options be hidden in an "advanced" button that would pop
> > up a dialog box allowing you to set them. The groal, of sorts, should be 
> > to
> > make the default 'view' simple, and with as little jargon as possible.
> > Basically, just a "Start Test" button, and some text like it is now. Also,
> > it'd be great if the text could be set via the HTML so sites could
> > customize it.
> >
> 
> About the protocol, I am not sure whether it's possible to select IPv4 or
> IPv6 from within Flash.
> (Flash gives very limited access to the TCP/IP stack).
> 
> Just FYI: About the server selection, I will commit shortly a JS snippet to
> automatically select the closest NDT server (among all the NDT servers
> hosted on the M-Lab platform).
> 

Hey Tiziana!

I posted a patch to some of the code related to this: 
https://code.google.com/p/ndt/issues/detail?id=111 I hope that it works. Let 
me know if you have feedback!

Will

> 
> > 2. Add possibility to re-run test after first completion
> >
> >
> >  Seems reasonable.
> >
> 
> SGTM
> 
> >
> > 3. On Results/Details/Errors/Debug views add appropriated title (or just
> > highlight somehow active button)
> >
> >
> >  It'd probably be good to make it easy for a site to disable the DEBUG
> > button. Also, ERRORS should probably just be merged into results somehow.
> >
> > 4. Maybe add ability to download results as file
> >
> >
> >  You'd probably need to save the results that are already there since you
> > can't re-request results from NDT; it throws them out after its done with
> > the test.
> >
> > 5. Add some basic progress bar during tests (indicating how many tests are
> > completed/left)
> >
> >
> >  That would be good, though it'd probably be good to leave it as a
> > percentage instead of a "number of tests remaining".
> >
> 
> 
> AFAIK, any UI animation can only be done outside Flash (for example in JS),
> because Flash is single threaded.
> 
> >
> > 6. Make some changes in text result presentation (for example errors will
> > be in red color, date will be bolded etc)
> >
> >
> >  Seems reasonable.
> >
> 
> SGTM
> 
> >
> > These of course are only proposals so feel free to comment
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Sebastian Kostuch
> >
> >
> Thanks!
> 
> >
> >
> >  Cheers,
> > Aaron
> >
> > Come visit the new www.internet2.edu
> >
> >