Awesome Flash World Cup calendar

http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html

by richardw • 16 years ago

130 27 16 years ago

keyle2• 16 years ago

Some bad mouth would say "You can do it in HTML5", but I guess it's flash because it's called World cup, not Apple cup. (oops)

mixmax• 16 years ago

I think I would be able to make it work in IE6 with css and a bit of javascript.

keyle2• 16 years ago

I'd like to see you make it all work like that and with fonts in, not all images ;-)

minalecs• 16 years ago

Ill create a GUI interface using visual basic - link for reference - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU

kilian• 16 years ago

It would be fun to try and do this with CSS transforms, transitions, :target selectors and a bit of javascript.

tomafro• 16 years ago

It's definitely got an interesting UI, but I can't see myself actually using it during the tournament.

On a similar theme, the best ical world cup calendar I've found is here:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/rp57smf89rsb1hgo09abvq1m...

ScottWhigham• 16 years ago

Thanks - hadn't seen that one.

ez77• 16 years ago

This has come full circle for me. I received a link to it from Argentina, even though I live in Spain and Marca is a Spanish magazine. I showed it to my workmates and most had not seen it, and agreed that it was very well designed. Now I see it #1 in HN! It's viral promotion in its best expression.

fabiandesimone3• 16 years ago

If you are on a BB download this one: http://bit.ly/4LgF2K is fantastic!

icefox• 16 years ago

Why are you hiding this binary behind bit.ly? Why not the webpage for this app?

fabiandesimone3• 16 years ago

Because the site is in Spanish. That link was taken from their web page.

A bit paranoid are we?

http://s42.com.ve/s42Mundial/

fabiandesimone3• 16 years ago

Out of curiosity, what's up with the down votes?

davnola3• 16 years ago

This is not awesome, this is merely circular.

One major problem: how can I see the data I want without leaving my mouse hovering over the right segment?

For example, I hover over England (out in the quarters as per usual), move my mouse to foreground a Skype window so I can organise some bevs with my friends (IRL I have none, this is just an example), and lo- I am now seeing Bloemfontein data. Grr.

richardw2• 16 years ago

Alt-tab works. You can alt-tab to your email and still mouse around the UI. It's not perfect but it works.

davnola3• 16 years ago

Yes everyone here knows that. But it's not really the point is it? I mean I can also move my mouse out through the very narrow channel between the different segments of the annulus!

Instead I'm going to use a calendar that doesn't have all the drawbacks of flash, that integrates with existing calendar/pim apps, and that - bonus item - doesn't have a broken ui.

(EDIT: BTW I used to love Tudumo back in my Windows days, cheers)

hackermom• 16 years ago

Doesn't strike me as awesome in any way. What's worse, it's pretty slow and jumpy.

smackfu• 16 years ago

Interesting that the countries are alphabetized in Spanish even though they are displayed in English. Oops.

Spain = Espana USA = Estados Unidos France = France (or something)

bfung• 16 years ago

This is not merely just a calendar, but can be viewed more like a "pivot table". The dimensions are Teams (Groups are just groups of Teams), Cities, and Time. Pick one, and it shows you the intersections with the other two (well, shows matches and places the teams in the matches). Very clever UI design for a traditional "Business Intelligence" report in the Enterprise world. Perhaps something like this is applicable to http://ycombinator.com/rfs2.html. The trick is that this "calendar" has limited amount of items in each dimension.

dejb• 16 years ago

The timezone is an issue. I'd prefer to see the times in my timezone rather than South Africa.

Awesome Flash World Cup calendar

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