Yes, you have that exactly right. I think, especially regarding "previous," that your description is what the user would expect to see happen.
Very specifically, here's the use case: The user comes to a page which shows a random cycle of "teasers." Each teaser links to a biography of a faculty member. Let's say the random cycle first displays Joe, then Sarah. (And say the HTML code contains teasers for Larry, Sarah, and Joe in that order.) The Joe teaser caught the user's eye, but by the time the user grabbed her mouse and pointed to the teaser, it had already transitioned to Sarah. So ideally, the user would click the "previous" link on Sarah to transition back to Joe so she can click the link to Joe's bio. I guess this calls into question what would happen if the user clicked "previous" a number of times greater than the number of times random elements have cycled at that point. Frankly, any behavior in that case is fine with me. The key improvement I think would be the ability to return to the previous random element that the user just saw, but missed clicking before the next transition. Many thanks, Mike, for your response, and for all your work on Cycle! Jon On Jul 9, 10:10 pm, Mike Alsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a link to an example: > > >http://www.udmercy.edu/apply/ > > > You'll see that the div blockscyclein randomized order (and it looks > > very nice), but if you use the next/previouslinks, they will advance > > to the next div as ordered in the HTML, not as they appeared in the > >randomorder. > > > (The divs are ordered by alphabetical school then by alphabetical > > name.) > > > Using jquery 1.2.2, andcycle2.22. > > > Thanks! > > Jon > > > (And again, sorry for the reposts!) > > > On Jul 7, 11:43 am, Jon Whitener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've come across aproblemwith Mike Alsup's very goodCycleplug-in. > > > This occurs when using both therandomfeature and a "previous" link. > > > "Previous" will go to thepreviousitem as it is ordered in the HTML, > > > regardless of what appeared previously to the user in therandomorder. > > > > For example, if I have elements to be cycled which appear in the page > > > code in this order: > > > > A, B, C > > > > But when randomized appear to the user in this order: > > > > A, C, B > > > > Then, if the user clicks the "Previous" link with B showing, thecycle > > > will go to A, not C as the user would expect. > > > > Is there any way to achieve the expected behavior? > > > > Many thanks, > > > Jon > > So are you saying you want the 'next' image to be random, but the > 'prev' image to be that actual previous image (for any number of > clicks on the prev link)? Do I have that right?
