In the real world, things dont always happen instantly. A sliding door (like on Star Trek) opens with a whoosh. I am sure they "could" have built a door "shield" that was opened instantly rather than a whooshing door. Especially with their futuristic technology. However, people like the whoosh. It's possible to have it too long, like whooooooooooooooooooooooooosh. In which case you bump into the door with your nose (i.e. Supermarket Doors) or "whsh" in which case it feels like the "power" it turned up too high, which is jarring.
The perfect effect is timed to the Goldilocks principle. Not too quick, not too slow, not the instant the user puts their mouseover, not waiting too long to fire, not too much bounce, not too robot-like. It should be "just-right". Glen On 8/30/07, Erin Doak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my opinion (and only my opinion) i think that it is kinda disturbing > if we hover on one item and immediately if we hover on another item, the > accordian doesn't open for the second item. > > > I think that the interface should always be responsive to the user. If the > mouse is over a menu it should activate. The animation is really just an > 'extra'. The ability to navigate a web site by accessing the menu items is > of paramount importance. > > One possible solution might be to offer either behavior as an option. > > Erin > > > > > On 8/26/07,* Jörn Zaefferer* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ganeshji Marwaha schrieb: > > Jörn, this is fantastic... very re-usable as well.. > > > > I have a question/suggestion though... When i hover over one of the > > items, and before the animation completes if i hover over another > > item, the animation for the second item doesn't occur. Now, i will > > have to move my mouse out of that item and hover over it again to get > > the other item to expand. Is it something that can be fixed, or is it > > a known limitation that we will have to live by... > > Well, so far that was intended to be a feature, not a bug. The > combination of long-running animations with hover is annoying, right. > But it is also annoying when the accordion keeps changing on each mouse > move, even when you didn't intend to get a different chunk. "Fixing" it > isn't difficult, but it is difficult to decide what the right fix > actually is. Your help is appreciated. > > -- Jörn > > >
