TimeSpace Known Issues and Bugs

UPDATED: 12/18/08 4:55 a.m. EST

Currently, TimeSpace plots the publication time and the geographic location (Country, State/Province, City) accurately 97.4% of the time. Throughout the day there could be a few items that are displayed in the wrong location or at the wrong time. We are enhancing the processes that recognize and plot locations and working towards 99.9% accuracy.

TimeSpace is currently a beta version of a news and multimedia presentation technology from washingtonpost.com. We invite and appreciate your feedback as we work to make this a great user experience. Please email bugs, problems or questions to webninjas@wpni.com. Please provide as much detail as possible including the name of your web browser (Firefox 3, IE7, etc.) when explaining the problem.

Thank you for your help. The development team is working diligently on these issues.

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Known Issues/Bugs:

  • A.M/P.M. discrepancies
  • Items not loading on map after dragging off the timeline on Internet Explorer for Windows
  • Video Ads not removing and allowing video to play full size.
  • Search box does not work in fullscreen mode.
  • Some items displayed under timeline when zoomed in
  • In fullscreen mode, map does not draw correctly
  • When only one item is displayed on the map, the item will not spawn the display bubble/window
  • Long captions not fully displayed
  • Control Zoom level when viewing clusters for best possible view.
  • Better compatibility with Google Chrome browser
  • Server errors starting around 2 a.m. (Fixes in place but will continue to monitor this problem)

Enhancements

(suggested or in progress)
  • Pagination/saving of previous day's content allowing users to move back in time
  • Better recognition of places in text items
  • Add "Locate" button for photos and video to take you to the place on the map
  • Selective loading of image assets to allow faster start
  • Search by location (City or State)
  • Improve Search capabilities.
  • Full Site Search Version
  • Improve load time and responsiveness
    • (Near peak efficiency but always looking for improvements)
  • TimeSpace: World TimeSpace:World version (12/03/08)
  • TimeSpace:Sports version (1/09)
  • TimeSpace:Entertainment version (2/09)
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