Mike
In my opinion (that's what you asked for) the same thing can be
accomplished, better, with frames:
+-----------------+------------------------------------+
| | |
| Products/ | Shopping Cart |
| | |
| Categories | |
| | |
| +------------------------------------+
| | |
| | |
| | Selected Product Detail |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
+-----------------+------------------------------------+
Each Frame is scrollable
fewer browser compatibility issues
much less bandwidth
no need to download unchanged frames
Product Selection updates Product Detail Frame (only)
Product Detail selection Updates Cart frame (only)
much more pleasant user experience
screen never goes blank for reload
things remain in fixed locations (comforting}
faster
I find it unsettling, when gadget repositions after scrolling the screen.
I find it irritating when I move the gadget and its position is reset with
the next display.
The Floating gadget really has problems if its height is
larger (or grows to be) than the window/screen size... you can never
see or get to the items at the bottom (or top) of the gadget.
On some browsers (NN), if you resize the window to a smaller size,
the gadget will
automatically scroll right by you, and off he window, altogether.
A similar problem exists with DHTML approximation of dropdown menus...
they don't work for long lists.
You can probably correct both these problems by changing the DHTML display
based on window size... probably not worth the effort.
Dick
At 12:50 AM +1100 11/7/00, Mike Kear wrote:
>What do you people think of the floating gadget in the Tack2 Example store
>that comes with CF4.0+?
>
>I know there's an issue about whether you want to use HTML4 floating layers
>and DHTML and we're going to decide about that soon, but leaving that
>aside, do you guys think that's a good idea?
>
>I think it looks cute and it allows the user to have the shopping cart in
>view all the time, regardless of where he/she is in the shopping process.
>
>Are there any issues with this thing that I haven't seen yet? I haven't
>seen any real stores using this technique, and I'm wondering why.
>
>Your thoughts people?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mike Kear
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>www.afp.zip.com.au
>Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
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