NightWind's Card Searcher

Things have changed a bit since these were implemented...

"Do no display card images" was to hide the card itself (i.e. "hide a getcard"), but it would still show who's selling what. It's also in a (somewhat) more neatly formatted - being arranged in a grid like fashion. Plus, it has a column on the side with the stats you searched on. Edit: Also, plus - it has the "Buy from personal stores" button.

"Only return list of card names" was supposed to be an even more stripped down version - only displaying the card names and no store searcher results. But after a while, it was decided to also include the store searcher results in the list only option, thus deeming it moot. It also loads much faster, at the expense of the user having to do a lot of scrolling.

So after quite a number of versions and feature extensions, this has now made one of the two obsolete.

(01-13-2009 03:15 AM)Bubbleman Wrote:  If I'm understanding it correctly, one will still display the cards cost, color, ability, pretty much everything but the card art and the other one will just display names, meaning that they both have their uses. But I could be wrong, I've never actually used them.

The "card image" is actually more like a getcard. Originally, it was exactly calling getcard.jsp, but was later on changed to rely on the info in the database.

(01-13-2009 03:48 AM)NOLDER Wrote:  oh i see
hmmm
i guess the one with no card art is useful for newbies on a slow connection
most vets know everything about a card without having to look (aside from some of the more obscure and/or uncommon ones)
and i think it's more likely that vets use the card searcher then newer players

so if it came to a vote i'd vote to remove "do not display card images"

though i'll bet nightwind can fit the HS checkbox in without removing anything anyway so i'm sure it's not an issue

So far we have the following votes:

Remove "Do no display card images": NOLDER
Remove "Only return list of card names": NOLDER

Voting closes on Friday.