On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
The following link implements a slider, and I thought such a metaphor would
be a good one for any number of library interfaces:
http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
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I think the idea of a slider is cool as well as kewl. How could I implement
something like this easily?
In the example given, they're using Flash. I'd assume that for most of us
here, we're using HTML interfaces, so JavaScript is probably the best way
to go.
Lots of them exist out there:
http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/slider/slider.html
http://www.softcomplex.com/products/tigra_slider_control/
http://carpe.ambiprospect.com/slider/
(I've most likely missed a large number of possible implementations ...
these are just to serve as examples that such a thing exists)
Also, some of the more encompasing JavaScript toolkits have slider
widgets, either included or as extensions:
http://archive.dojotoolkit.org/nightly/dojotoolkit/dijit/tests/form/test_Slider.html
http://ui4w.sourceforge.net/UI4W/packed/samples/browser.html
http://extjs.com/learn/Extension:Slider
http://www.aldenta.com/examples/script.aculo.us/
...
And not quite a slider, but similar -- a toolkit for making timelines in
JavaScript:
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/
(I've been using it to visualize event catalogs -- it helps to spot
parsing errors when events are abnormally short / long)
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Joe Hourcle
