Dear World of Warcraft raiders,
as promised, the new Dragon Soul raid is now fully supported by my extension. Please download it from the usual extension downloader now! If you don't remember your Transaction ID, please don't hesitate to send me a support request!
Dear World of Warcraft raiders,
I've started today to update the extension in order to support the new raid. Unfortunately Blizzard hasn't already updated its API, so we have to wait untill the developers update it (I think it will be matter of days!). As soon as the API is updated, I'll release the version 5.1.0.
Stay tuned!
~elegos
Dear World of Warcraft gamers,
today I'm releasing the 5th version of WoW Progress Tracker. Here is the changelog:
Dear raiders,
in these days I focused on scratching a new WPT version starting from the ground. I've opted for a javascript implementation for different reasons, I hope you'll enjoy them all:
I'm using jQuery as I used in the past, and I decided to use vTips for the tooltips this time. The counter side effect is that the user browsing your website must have javascript enabled, otherwise he/she won't see the progress.
Also HTML5 and CSS3 are being used more and more in new world wide websites and in new templates. I've thus decided to make usage of them, introducing browser-generated gradients (ok, it's not THAT usage of new technology, but anyway). I'm unsure whenever to create backward compatibility layers, but I'll for sure try to make things work on all the LATEST versions of every browser I can test.
With the new API I'm even able to get the detailed progress of heroic modes, switching back to a character-bound logic (from a guild-logic one). In the settings thus you'll have to set a single character instead of a guild. This has two effects, good or bad they can be:
This is again a Battle.net limitation, as there is no API for the guild progression at all. I've opted to look for one single character 'cause of JavaScript: parsing more than one character may result in slow calculations and bad performance browser-side, which I don't want.
5.x will most probably NOT compatible with J! 1.5, as I'm pointing to the latest (stable) version of the CMS for this work.
Hello dear World of Warcraft gamers,
during the Holidays, Blizzard released the official (still uncomplete) WoW API, based on JSON. I've already took a first look at them and this may really change the way we currently look for our guild's progression (easier, faster!). I'm posting this news now due to a blue post appeared on the EU forums, here it is:
HTML Datamining and You (by Takralus, World of Warcraft -> Forums -> Gameplay -> General)
Now that the API is live, we want to make you all aware that HTML datamining (via eu.battle.net/wow or any of the other regional wow sites) is not acceptable. Within the next 7 days, we will start to blacklist users that are making excessive requests to our regular community sites. If you are currently in the process of porting over to the API and have not requested a key yet, please do so. We do not want to interrupt service for community sites that are following that path. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with specific questions/concerns, or reply to this thread with any general comments. Thank you for your cooperation :-)
As the current tracker (4.0.3) uses the HTML datamining technique in order to grab the data, I want to advise you about the possibility battle.net may temporarly or permanently ban your website, if it's highly visited, suggesting you thus to disable the module in this case.
I'll work on a 5.x version of the module, still for Joomla! 1.5 (portable to 1.6 this time), in order to grab the data from the new API (and re-introducing the heroic boss-per-boss progression!).
Stay tuned!
Giacomo 'elegos' Furlan