Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Release 0.16

Change History
When you build a Choosle together with your friends, you may want to know who has done what and when.
A protocol of saved actions shows you what's going on.

Note: Changes made before February 2012 were not recorded!

Options in Search Results
A short list of options in a search result helps you to find the right Choosle more easily.
The first few options, compared in a Choosle, are enumerated on one line per search result.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Release 0.15

Killer Arguments
Sometimes one argument can kill the whole option. A price of $101 for example might force you to exclude a product from consideration completely, when your budget is strictly limited to $100. Still in the other factors the option might be the winner (likely for an expensive product).

Like it would have been deleted, a killed option is excluded from scoring, only representing it's existence for documentation purposes. Later the "killer" argument might change and the option is included in the scoring again.

Import Bookmarklet
A Bookmarklet is a special "Bookmark" on your browser, allowing you to work with the information you see on a currently open Web page.
The Choosle Bookmarklet allows you to transform a HTML table into a new Choosle.
Drag the Bookmarklet link from the Import dialog (manage - Import) into your bookmarks toolbar, browse to the Web page with the HTML table to import and click on the Bookmarklet. Then click on any table cell containing the title of an option. Next click on another table cell with the title of another option (=> selects the row or column with the options). Last click on a table cell containing the title of a factor (=> selects the column or row with the factors).
On Wikipedia the options are often listed in the first column
 and the factors in the first row.
A click on the Import button creates a new Choosle with the selected options, factors and fills in the arguments from the HTML table contents.

5-Star Input Controls
Instead of having to switch between the 5-star and the +/- slider rating modes, the +/- slider ratings now show a 5-star control on mouse-hover, allowing you to quickly input a rough rating value with one click.
The slider position automatically moves with your star selection.

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Release 0.14

This release shows itself mostly on the front page.
The 5 most popular (mostly viewed) Choosles are listed above the featured Choosles.
And right beside you can play a video to get a short overview of some basic features of Choosle.

Several other, smaller changes are included in this release, but not directly visible to the user.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Release 0.13

More than 5 Options
Even though we thought of Choosle focusing on the last ~3 options to have a chance of winning, you have quickly collected more "potential" options. Even if it's only to remember, they are there and have no actual say in the decision.
You could add more than 5 options to a Choosle in older releases, but scrolling horizontally to finally discover them all... there must be a better way.
A list at the side of the comparison matrix now shows you all the options compared. The list items correspond directly with the columns of the matrix.
To keep the comparison matrix small only the 3 highest-ranked options are visible by default.
With a simple click on a title in the option list you can show or hide the according option columns in the matrix.



While the option list allows you to handle up to about 20 options (depending on your screen size), you will see an additional scrollbar, if the number of options becomes even higher (not recommended).






Score Icon
Instead of the score value (weighted sum of all attribute ratings) being displayed in the top-right corner of the option title box, a small icon now shows this value relative to the others.
Since the winner option is marked already, it's score icon in the option title box is omitted.
The icon is also shown in the option list.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Drink Mineral Water!

Drinking plenty is healthy. Some bottled waters provide natural minerals valuable for the body.

Even though tap water is often "healthy" enough... the water from my tap could taste better.