item popup availability for other sites

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Jun 11 2007, 06:49 PM
Acacia

item popup availability for other sites

The lorebook uses a nifty popup on item mouseovers and I was wondering if that would be available for kinship websites or others to use on their sites?

Here's an example for folks who have no idea what I'm talking about: mouseover 'butter' or 'common mushrooms' pictures

http://lorebook.lotro.com/index.php/...ried_Mushrooms
Jun 12 2007, 05:34 AM
Cherubina

Re: item popup availability for other sites

Similar popups are already available on other sites. They are done with JavaScript. They are not images, but rather new windows, the contents of which are defined individually.

Anyone with adequate knowledge can create them on a website. ;)
Jun 13 2007, 04:38 PM
Acacia

Re: item popup availability for other sites

yeah, but it's always nice to know if a prepackaged script is already freely available before embarking on redundant development.

...so I shall take that as a no...
Jun 20 2007, 06:15 PM
Aylwyne

Re: item popup availability for other sites

Currently, there's no support or API for including data from the lorebook on other sites. We've certainly discussed the idea internally, however, there's currently so much we have on our list that we consider core functionality required by our own website (character data, maps, etc.) that it's not something we currently have planned.
Jun 24 2007, 11:37 AM
Shianjin

Re: item popup availability for other sites

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cherubina

Similar popups are already available on other sites. They are done with JavaScript. They are not images, but rather new windows, the contents of which are defined individually.

Anyone with adequate knowledge can create them on a website. ;)

Im looking into doing this on one of my websites (not LOTRO related), would you mind providing a website that has some what of directions on this?
Jun 26 2007, 01:37 PM
jshanman

Re: item popup availability for other sites

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aylwyne

Currently, there's no support or API for including data from the lorebook on other sites. We've certainly discussed the idea internally, however, there's currently so much we have on our list that we consider core functionality required by our own website (character data, maps, etc.) that it's not something we currently have planned.

So... would it bother you guys if *someone* wrote an api to extract data from the lorebook and made it available to anyone via an api?

If it does bother you and *someone* does this, it wasn't me...
Jul 22 2007, 03:09 AM
windsage

Re: item popup availability for other sites

I do not think the old itemstats code from WoW would be difficult to modify; however, for the code to work it needs an XML listing of item names vs item numbers to work against. Other sites have done this by creating their own database of Lotro items, a cumbersome task to say the least.

Since the lorebook has tooltip functionality already, I would assume that an XML listing would be easy to make available for others to write the actual code.
Jul 28 2007, 01:43 PM
ElennaHart

Re: item popup availability for other sites

jQuery (www.jquery.com/) has been used to make popup thumbnails of other web pages (for example, a small image of a site's home page is shown when you hover over a link).

Might be useful!
Feb 11 2009, 07:15 AM
Lofarr

Re: item popup availability for other sites

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aylwyne

Currently, there's no support or API for including data from the lorebook on other sites. We've certainly discussed the idea internally, however, there's currently so much we have on our list that we consider core functionality required by our own website (character data, maps, etc.) that it's not something we currently have planned.

I know necro post. But any latest word?