What language/technology should I use?
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I have a really fancy (at least to me) effect I want to use, I'm not sure where to start, what to use, or even if it's even possible. Any help would be great, I mostly need a push in the right direction. The final result I'd like it a Bubble (crystal ball, something like that) with text in it. As the users scrolls (scroll wheel enabled) I want the text to fade in from the bottom then fade out at the top. I don't want a normal fade though, I want it to expand/shrink also so it stays with the curve of the bubble. I would also like it to be HTML compatible so I can have links, pictures, headers, etc. I want the HTML used in the bubble to be changeable on the fly so I can have AJAX update the text as links are clicked. The height/width needs to be scalable so it fills the area no mater what size the browser is. Lastly I want it cross-browser compatible. I think that's it, I know I'm looking for a lot, but as I said I'm just looking for a direction to start in. Currently I'm pretty good in ASP.NET with VB.NET, PHP, Javascript, ASP, CSS, and HTML (duh). I'm thinking the best fix for my problem is Java or Flash, but I'm hoping to stay with what I know. Thanks for any help given, Nick
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I have a really fancy (at least to me) effect I want to use, I'm not sure where to start, what to use, or even if it's even possible. Any help would be great, I mostly need a push in the right direction. The final result I'd like it a Bubble (crystal ball, something like that) with text in it. As the users scrolls (scroll wheel enabled) I want the text to fade in from the bottom then fade out at the top. I don't want a normal fade though, I want it to expand/shrink also so it stays with the curve of the bubble. I would also like it to be HTML compatible so I can have links, pictures, headers, etc. I want the HTML used in the bubble to be changeable on the fly so I can have AJAX update the text as links are clicked. The height/width needs to be scalable so it fills the area no mater what size the browser is. Lastly I want it cross-browser compatible. I think that's it, I know I'm looking for a lot, but as I said I'm just looking for a direction to start in. Currently I'm pretty good in ASP.NET with VB.NET, PHP, Javascript, ASP, CSS, and HTML (duh). I'm thinking the best fix for my problem is Java or Flash, but I'm hoping to stay with what I know. Thanks for any help given, Nick
You might want to investigate the AJAX Control toolkit for ASP.NET... specifically the Animation control... it might let you do what you want to do. http://ajax.asp.net/ajaxtoolkit/Animation/Animation.aspx[^]
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I have a really fancy (at least to me) effect I want to use, I'm not sure where to start, what to use, or even if it's even possible. Any help would be great, I mostly need a push in the right direction. The final result I'd like it a Bubble (crystal ball, something like that) with text in it. As the users scrolls (scroll wheel enabled) I want the text to fade in from the bottom then fade out at the top. I don't want a normal fade though, I want it to expand/shrink also so it stays with the curve of the bubble. I would also like it to be HTML compatible so I can have links, pictures, headers, etc. I want the HTML used in the bubble to be changeable on the fly so I can have AJAX update the text as links are clicked. The height/width needs to be scalable so it fills the area no mater what size the browser is. Lastly I want it cross-browser compatible. I think that's it, I know I'm looking for a lot, but as I said I'm just looking for a direction to start in. Currently I'm pretty good in ASP.NET with VB.NET, PHP, Javascript, ASP, CSS, and HTML (duh). I'm thinking the best fix for my problem is Java or Flash, but I'm hoping to stay with what I know. Thanks for any help given, Nick
I'm not sure the scroll wheel will throw an event in javascript, have you found that out? There is a scroll event for elements but I'm not sure how it works (you might be able to put the text inside a scrolling div and hook into the divs scroll event to shape the text). I've no doubt it could be done with Flash (and take the content as HTML from another source). You could easily get the 'fade' effect by using an image with a transparent ball in the middle (with some nice gradients on the top and bottom of course), and the content underneath that in the z-index order, but it won't resize the content width as it scrolls.
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I have a really fancy (at least to me) effect I want to use, I'm not sure where to start, what to use, or even if it's even possible. Any help would be great, I mostly need a push in the right direction. The final result I'd like it a Bubble (crystal ball, something like that) with text in it. As the users scrolls (scroll wheel enabled) I want the text to fade in from the bottom then fade out at the top. I don't want a normal fade though, I want it to expand/shrink also so it stays with the curve of the bubble. I would also like it to be HTML compatible so I can have links, pictures, headers, etc. I want the HTML used in the bubble to be changeable on the fly so I can have AJAX update the text as links are clicked. The height/width needs to be scalable so it fills the area no mater what size the browser is. Lastly I want it cross-browser compatible. I think that's it, I know I'm looking for a lot, but as I said I'm just looking for a direction to start in. Currently I'm pretty good in ASP.NET with VB.NET, PHP, Javascript, ASP, CSS, and HTML (duh). I'm thinking the best fix for my problem is Java or Flash, but I'm hoping to stay with what I know. Thanks for any help given, Nick
RX Maverick wrote:
I don't want a normal fade though, I want it to expand/shrink also so it stays with the curve of the bubble.
Consider using Flash. HTML really isn't built for this sort of thing (you could probably make it work using canvas, but that doesn't work on IE).
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