arf, well, search engines would link to it directly in any case. So better indeed put a link back to the main project page :)
LAb[au] _ *lab*oratory for *a*rchitecture and *u*rbanism Alexandre Plennevaux Lakensestraat 104 Rue de Laeken Brussel 1000 Bruxelles België _ Belgique _ Belgium tel: +32 (0)2 2196555 fax: +32 (0)2 4266986 mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lab-au.com VAT: BE0475.210.720 On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:55 AM, Jack Killpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Alexandre. I wondered how long it would take for someone to extract > the demo url from the modal window and post it bare.... :-) ... I guess it's > time for me to add a link to that to take folks back to the main info page. > > Thanks for the writeup! > > - Jack > > > Alexandre Plennevaux wrote: > > veeeeeeeeery nice ! > > http://www.pixeline.be/blog/2008/listnav-jquery-plugin-_-really-nice-ui/ > > > > On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Jack Killpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Today we released our first jQuery plugin, which provides an easy way to >> add alphabet-based navigation to any UL or OL list. Here's a link to our >> announcement blog entry: >> >> >> http://blogs.ihwy.com/dev/post/jQuery-listnav-plugin-version-10-released.aspx >> >> And below is the info from the blog entry to save you the click. Thanks to >> Mike Alsup for his docs about creating jquery plugins, and a shout out to >> Liam Byrne, who helped me (via this list) a few months ago with some jQuery >> for isolating text inside of list items. >> >> - Jack >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> blogged.... >> >> Today we're releasing a jQuery plugin that we created for the business >> directory section of a pet project site of ours, >> http://www.hwy9.com/Directory/boulder-creek.aspx. We'd always wanted to >> have a javascript-based control that we could easily apply to long lists of >> items to allow quickly navigating around the list. Since most lists are >> alphabetically sorted, we came up with a plugin that allowed us to have a >> long list and then, by binding the list to our jQuery listnav plugin, an >> alphabet-based navigation bar would magically appear above the list, showing >> all of the letters from A to Z. Clicking on a letter dynamically filters the >> list, so you can, for example, click on C and the list changes on-the-fly to >> show you only items beginning with C. >> >> There are lots of neat little features to the control. We've posted full >> information and demos here: >> >> http://www.ihwy.com/labs/jquery-listnav-plugin.aspx . >> >> A couple of the interesting features worth calling out are 1) that when >> you hover over a letter in the list navigation bar, a count appears above >> the letter, telling you how many items will appear if you click that letter >> 2) letters that don't have any items under them appear looking "disabled", >> as a visual clue that there aren't any items starting with that letter (so >> that the user doesn't have to find out by clicking the letter). >> >> One of the demos (demo 4) also shows using the listnav plugin on a list >> that has floated items in it. In the demo, each list item looks like a box >> and they are arranged left-to-right, row by row. Clicking on a letter shows >> only the boxes that have wording that starts with that letter. This could be >> handy for making an address-book like layout on a web site: click the letter >> in the navigation to see the contacts that start with Y, for example. Each >> box can contain anything you want it to: the listnav control pays attention >> only to the first letter of the first text in the list item. >> >> The control has been optimized for speed. It's able to handle binding to >> lists with hundreds of items in them very quickly. Any jQuery selector can >> be used to bind to your lists, so you can bind it to multiple lists on a >> single page using just a CSS class name, if you want to. It works with UL >> and OL (numbered) lists. If you use an OL, the numbers restart themselves >> for each set of list items that appear (ie, if you click on 'C' and that has >> 5 items, they will appear numbered from 1-5). >> >> We hope you enjoy the jQuery listnav plugin. We enjoyed creating it. >> >> >> > >
