"The Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit is a street-based circuit around Albert Park Lake, only a couple of kilometres south of central Melbourne. It is best-known for holding one race of the Formula One season, the Australian Grand Prix."
To give Formula One "Newbies" some background information, I plan to integrate wikipedia links to each track. Here the Melbourne example that will later appear in the "info cloud" on the Google Map.
After the quick success yesterday, I thought about my next steps for my Mini-Project:
- I will create a xml file with all necessary information about all 17 race tracks.
- I will create the layout (my favorite div boxes with CSS... I' love it) for the page.
- Build the HTML/CSS/Layout for the Google Map "cloud" with the race track information that should be displayed.
- I will read chapter 4 and 4.5 (DOM) and maybe chapter 6 (XML requests and responses)
- Requesting the race track xml file via JavaScript and get the xml into the request object (into the xml response property)
- Build a JavaScript loop, that creates for each race track a pin using the xml data in the request object / xml property.
- Build a JavaScript loop, that creates for each race track an entry in the race track list on the HTML page using the xml data in the request object / xml property. (Using insertion functions of the DOM ? ... lets see, how this will work)
- Integrating the RSS feed box (right now: I have no clue about that ;) ... lets see)
Ideas for Iteration 3:
- Maybe building a JavaScript, that highlights the next race track in the list (based on the race date) and focus the google map to this race track.
- Adding weather information for this race track
- Adding a count down until the next race.
So far ... thats the strategy ;)
Let's start with point one ...
-Joern