On 12/15/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 05:10:06PM -0500, Dave Grogan
wrote:
Yeah, there are only about 8 good ones that are really
distinctive, and
then after about 20 you can get into some hairy situations. It's not
that bad though because usually an off-green is next to an off-red or
something. It's only bad when a color and two of its off-colors are all
close. I might have it wrap after 10 but add a hover feature that will
pop up the contributor's name.
You've seen the IBM work on this sort of thing, right?
No. Please inform.
In light of your posting today, I guess I'd better get to answering
this. I can't find the link I blogged (I'm too witty for my own good,
clearly), but I spotted it at Metafilter about 8 months to a year ago,
and it was a graphical waterfall style representation of how a
Wikipedia page changes over time. ISTR they weren't releasing the code
at that time, but the details are lost to me.
I don't know that it's directly relevant to what you want to do, but it
might bear investigation. I'll look a little further.