[Niki Scevak]

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whats the point of having the hands as a youtube-like player over linear text when timing tells are not conveyed in this format? it seems as if linear text will just be faster if there is no strategical gain.

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Fair enough. The point was to make it easier to follow the hand. The player isn't pretty at the moment, for sure, but I guess in my mind it is a better way.

The point about the portability is that since it is structured in an XML format, we would allow designers to make their own players and even to export to the standard text if that is preferred. Just that the text is kind of sucky for me, at least.