I thought this was about Raphael-based widgets. If not, and you're
using jQuery, check out jQuery-UI. I'm personally not a big fan of it,
but hey, it's code you don't have to write and it's well maintained.



On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I thought about html5 ranges; however while I don't need to support
> IE, I do have a wider audience than just devs, so I probably need to work on
> Firefox 3.6 at least.
> I might use modernizr to allow for html5 ranges where supported, and fall
> back to a simple text box otherwise; or maybe hack together a slider in
> raphael...
> re: scriptaculous slider - I'm using jquery, don't really want to mix in
> scriptaculous as well.  There are some jquery sliders out there, which I
> might consider.
> re: whoever dissed dials - yep, dials was probably a poor example :)
>  Sliders + standard form elements probably cover most of my needs, now I
> think about it further.
> - Korny
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Lachie <lach...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Korny Sietsma <ko...@sietsma.com> wrote:
>> > Hi - I'm throwing together a page with some Raphael-based graphs and I
>> > want
>> > to add some simple widgets to control the parameters used to draw the
>> > graphs
>> > - things like sliders, dials, simple text boxes to change numeric
>> > values,
>> > etc.
>>
>> Have you considered using html5?
>>
>> http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-number
>> http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html#type-range
>>
>> :lachie
>>
>> > This only needs to work on new browsers (no IE) - I'm wondering if
>> > anyone
>> > has any suggestions for where to get/build these widgets.
>> > Most of the libraries out there seem like overkill; they all feel the
>> > need
>> > to support old browsers, and they tend to assume you want to post the
>> > results as a form back to a server.
>> > I just want to call a javascript callback...
>> > I could build my own in Raphael, but that also seems like work; I'll do
>> > that
>> > if I have to, but I'm hoping someone has already done this for me!
>> > Suggestions?
>> > - Korny
>> >
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