Nice work Chris!
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Thanks for the comments Jim. I added it because I was sick and tired of trying to navigate from an article to the main sections via the homepage or section Table of Contents. I designed it so that it was slim and out of the way, and I was actually wondering if people would even notice it (as I said, it's kind of a quiet test). Is it really getting in the way that much? I could add a timer that waits for a 1-2 second hover before it moves over. Just let me know how many bugs you want with that extra piece of code :D Other options are that I could just trash it, or move to a fixed menu, or have a setting in your Settings page that allows you to disable it. Lemme know. cheers, Chris Maunder
Hey Chris. Frankly, I like the slide in bar, but another option that you may give some thought to (if enough people complain about the menubar that you want to remove it) would be using a top-bar menu system (http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/dhtmlmenu/menu.html). This particular menu is dockable, and looks and acts just like a Windows menu. It only works for IE4 and up, so you'd have to check browser versions, but it looks very cool. I recently used this menu on a project that I did, and my client loved it. Just a thought. Jamie Nordmeyer Portland, Oregon, USA
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What is "Netscape?" ;) "das leid schlaft in der maschine" -Einstürzende Neubauten
The people who thought they knew what web browsers are.!!! And read this, Netscape: We're not a browser company :) ;) ;P :-D :cool:
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I've got my fonts at 150% and the scroll bar when minimized is covering the the left side of the article so I can't read the first few characters of each line. Also I find that it takes too long for the scrollbar to slide away on a 850Mhz P3. The rate used to expand is nice, why not retract at the same rate? I tried locking it and it jumped back to retracted in the locked position. Otherwise I like the idea. On the subject of larger font sizes this edit field I'm typing in is 125% as wide as the screen which makes it kind of hard to use.
I think it 'd be cool if the sidebar would scroll vertically, to follow the current view of a page (should be easy to do). Also, i'd like it not to "animate", but popup immediately. What about implementing all (or some) of the users' suggestions and let'em change the appearance of the sidebar (My Settings)? It seems most users liked the sidebar, and I think it's here to stay. Maybe have a poll about it? :-D
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Hey, Just thought I drop a note to say how cool your sliding sidebar is! Nice work! > Andrew.
As cute and interesting as it is, having something slide into view simply because you move the cursor onto some "magic" location is poor UI design. There should simply be a button of some type to toggle the side bar on and off. If you want it, you got it, if you don't, its gone.
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As cute and interesting as it is, having something slide into view simply because you move the cursor onto some "magic" location is poor UI design. There should simply be a button of some type to toggle the side bar on and off. If you want it, you got it, if you don't, its gone.
What you're describing is like the "View Workspace" button in DevStudio, which is fine except for one thing: turning it on causes everything else to shift (to the right usually). So it's meant to be used more to set things up permanently. I think Chris's intent was to have a quick way to navigate to other places through a temporary popup. What you describe would have taken an extra button push and possibly a refresh of the whole page (to fit on the smaller space). You have to agree that the way it is now makes it very quick and the "magic" place also happens to be where the mouse would need to eventually go anyway. Still, I see how having a toggle button would also be nice for people who want the menu displayed all the time. Regards, Alvaro
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Is sure do wish I knew what you guys were talking about.... If you mean the seeing the sidebar from the main page while viewing the forums (scrolling out) that isn't working here. I don't see the sidebar no matter where I move the mouse.
It's an IE5+ only gimmick. :( cheers, Chris Maunder
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It's an IE5+ only gimmick. :( cheers, Chris Maunder
I'm running IE 5.50 with Windows 2000 SP2. Matt
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I'm running IE 5.50 with Windows 2000 SP2. Matt
Hmmm. Javascript enabled? cheers, Chris Maunder
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Thanks for the comments Jim. I added it because I was sick and tired of trying to navigate from an article to the main sections via the homepage or section Table of Contents. I designed it so that it was slim and out of the way, and I was actually wondering if people would even notice it (as I said, it's kind of a quiet test). Is it really getting in the way that much? I could add a timer that waits for a 1-2 second hover before it moves over. Just let me know how many bugs you want with that extra piece of code :D Other options are that I could just trash it, or move to a fixed menu, or have a setting in your Settings page that allows you to disable it. Lemme know. cheers, Chris Maunder
Hi Chris, Nice work for sure! :) Few suggestions (only if you don't mind): 1) When the Lock is clicked, it locks OK, but docks over the bitmaps next to the download links, the placement needs a little adjusment. 2) If the article is way longer in height than the Sliding Bar, the sliding bar does not show when you are lower than the height of it (The Bar), especiallywhen on the comments at the bottom of articles. 3) What about letting the bar slide while scrolling even when unlocked? Cheers! :) -- Time, you can race it, never reverse it. --
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Hmmm. Javascript enabled? cheers, Chris Maunder
Everything's enabled... my security is set pretty low right now because of a project I'm working on. This problem holds true both here and at home... identical software configurations (2000SP2, IE 5.5).
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Thanks for the comments Jim. I added it because I was sick and tired of trying to navigate from an article to the main sections via the homepage or section Table of Contents. I designed it so that it was slim and out of the way, and I was actually wondering if people would even notice it (as I said, it's kind of a quiet test). Is it really getting in the way that much? I could add a timer that waits for a 1-2 second hover before it moves over. Just let me know how many bugs you want with that extra piece of code :D Other options are that I could just trash it, or move to a fixed menu, or have a setting in your Settings page that allows you to disable it. Lemme know. cheers, Chris Maunder
Okay, I admit it might have a few downfalls. I think it might be more useful perhaps (and I do like it already as I said before) if you either added the timer, or made it so you had to click on the 'slimt' bar rather than point to it to make the menu appear? > Andrew.
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Oi, I think it's very cool! But it would be cooler :-) if I could enable/disable it from my prefs. Thx, Chris! /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com
