LOTRO Item Tooltips, WAR Europe Profiles, and more

Nov 16, 2008 at 07:08 PM in Features

We have a few game specific updates for LOTRO, WAR and WoW this week, along with an enhancement to how we handle external resources.

LOTRO Item Tooltips
Item tooltips for Lord of the Rings Online are now enabled on the site. They work exactly like our Warhammer and World of Warcraft item tooltips. For Bank and DKP items they are automatically enabled, mousing over the item's name will show the tooltip. To enable the tooltips anywhere else on the site you can just type:

Fine Radiant Hat

The item bbcode button has been enabled above Text Fields for LOTRO guilds as well, which you can click and will auto insert the bbcode for you.

WAR Europe Character Profiles
Character profiles for WAR europe guilds are now enabled, pulling data from the european realm war site.

WoW Death Knight Profiles
Our WoW Character Profiles now properly support the Death Knight class, having the proper avatar and talent icons.

External Resource Enhancements
We allow you to connect to a lot of external resources with your guild site; character profiles connect to the armory and realmwar sites; rss blocks connect to their origin site; and ventrilo and teamspeak blocks connect to their server to read their status.

Previously if any of those external resources were slow to respond, it may have caused your site to appear to load slowly, as it waited for the WAR character profile to load, or the RSS feed to be read in.

Now all of these external resources are managed much better. RSS, ventrilo and teamspeak blocks are all pre-cached, and their cache is constantly updated on our server, so the attempt to connect to the external resource never happens while visiting your site. And WoW and WAR character profiles now show your character page right away, and the connection for the profile is made as an ajax request.