thanks to everyone for the great ideas. i'm going to take all of this and see what i come up with.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 7:49 AM, frank d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've tried this and it works.. > Two issues we ran into though: > 1. make it close itself after max 2sec. Don't make the user have to klick to > close it. It should even close on ESC and on a click anywhere outside the > div. > 2. like you mention: the div must be positioned relative to the middle of > the screen, regardless of the amount of items/lenght of the page. > This is doable but it does'nt work the same way in all relevant browsers. > You have to code it differently i firefox and ie. > > frank > > ------- > > > > Could you use a floating div positioned to the center (or top) of the > > current view? > > > > Jack > > > > > > On Mar 6, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Matthew Nish-Lapidus wrote: > > > >> The biggest issue is that on a page with 15 items, the user could be > >> scrolled half way down the page, so putting the messages at the top > >> (like gmail) doesn't really work. > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- Matt Nish-Lapidus work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.bibliocommons.com -- personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help