Thats a real honor coming from you Karl. Thanks for the the note on jTip. Besides the Mac issues I have seen problems in IE7 with location of the tip. I will soon switch to your ClueTip which is more stable. I hope some other developers here chime in and let me know there impressoins.
Mitch On Aug 29, 4:36 pm, Karl Swedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mitch, > > Your bird search looks fantastic! Congratulations on an excellent job. > > One sad note about the jTip: In FF Mac, the scrollbars of <div > id="match"> poke through the tooltip when it is shown. I don't know > of any workaround for this issue, but maybe somebody else does? If I > recall correctly, not even the iFrame hack will work (as it does with > select lists in IE6). > > --Karl > _________________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Aug 29, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Mitch wrote: > > > > > > > The Mitchies. Rating the Best GUI Plugins > > > My interface is an example of what a novice non programmer can do > > using jQuery and a number of its best plugins. > > > The goal was to build a GUI that contained a large number of web 2.0 > > features, meaning controls that gave a desktop experience inside the > > browser. Besides wanting to upgrade my very popular avian search > > engine (http://www.whatbird.com), I wanted to see how far I could go, > > how many controls could I use to make my GUI inviting and modern. I > > also wanted to see how such a GUI would work in the various browsers, > > such as IE and FF. I wanted to see how fragile javascirpted web 2.0 > > pages were. > > > I stumbled upon jQuery and instantly saw its value. Then I dived in. > > The resulting project was an inspiration to me because of how much I > > could accomplish with so little code. I had to become familiar with a > > large number of topics that were very technical, but I had a lot of > > hand holding and help from thejQuery community. > > > Below I have listed the plugins I have used in the whatbird GUI. Three > > stand out. I have given links to these so you can go get the plugin > > and try it. But you can see how it works right here by just going to > > the tab above calledSearch. > > > I decided to give each plugin my own "mitchie" which is essentially my > > own plugin rating from 1 to 5 like the kind you see on Amazon. The > > winners are cycle from Mike Alsup, tabs by Klaus Hartl and accordian > > by John Resig. > > > You can see the details and winners here: > > >http://www.whatbird.com/wwwroot/Components/Complete_Search_Tab.html > > > Thanks Mike, Klaus and Dan. > > > Mitch- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
