[jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy
Thanks, Andy (and Rick Faircloth). Glad you like it. I've passed the kudo's on to the team: much appreciated! - Jack Andy Matthews wrote: Hot damn... Just saw this plugin, and this is fantastically done! Kudos to you and your team. andy *From:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Jack Killpatrick *Sent:* Monday, March 02, 2009 3:36 PM *To:* jquery-en@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy Thanks, glad you like it. 3000 is a heap: the main bottleneck I found is IE's slow javascript capabilities. I spent a lot of time tuning it to work with IE, but the other browsers just totally smoke it. I haven't tried 3000 nodes, though. Let me know how it goes. Even if the speed is OK, though, that's like ~100+ items per submenu, which would make for a pretty 'tall' menu, I suspect (part of which might go off the bottom of the view port, depending on number of cols, font sizes and height of each list item). You might want to check out the listnav plugin, which keeps the list on the page, rather than putting it into a menu, too. I'll be announcing a new rev of that shortly, but it's up: http://www.ihwy.com/labs/jquery-listnav-plugin.aspx Thanks, Jack brian wrote: Very nice. I just recently put together letter-based navigation for an app, though each "letter request" uses ajax to fetch the appropriate results. The complete set, though, is something over 3000 items and growing. All the same, I think I'll write a quick script to dump everything to listmenu and see what the performance is like. Nice work! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Killpatrick wrote: Hi All, Today we released the iHwy listmenu plugin, which allows you to convert a basic 'list' of HTML elements (UL, OL or any set of child elements) into a snazzy dropdown menu with letter-based navigation (ie: A | B | C | etc). The plugin is very easy to use. In most cases all you will have to do is create the list of elements and then use one line of jQuery code to convert the list into the navigation menu. When a user hovers over a navigation letter in the menu a submenu appears containing all of the items from the list that start with that letter. The items in the submenu are arranged in nicely balanced columns. If the list was an ordered (OL) list, numbering starts at 1 for each letter and is maintained across the columns (top to bottom, left to right) for that letter. There are options to control the number of columns and the 'gutter' space between them, among other things. The HTML generated by the plugin is designed with CSS styling in mind and a starter css file is included to help implement the plugin. We tuned this plugin for speed and tested it in FF 3.x (Win/Mac), IE 6/7/8rc, Opera (latest), Safari (Mac 3.2.1, Win 4beta) and Google Chrome (Win) using jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 (1.3.2 is faster, probably because of sizzle). This is great plugin for big product lists, address books, contact lists, etc. It makes a hard to navigate plain old list into something really compact and very easy to visually skim that's only visible when you need it. Full info: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx Demos: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/demos/current/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx This project grew out of the jquery listnav plugin that we released in late 2008. We'll be releasing a new rev of that today, too. Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy the plugin! Thanks, Jack twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ihwy_jack
[jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy
Very nice, Jack! Rick -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Killpatrick Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:05 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy Hi All, Today we released the iHwy listmenu plugin, which allows you to convert a basic 'list' of HTML elements (UL, OL or any set of child elements) into a snazzy dropdown menu with letter-based navigation (ie: A | B | C | etc). The plugin is very easy to use. In most cases all you will have to do is create the list of elements and then use one line of jQuery code to convert the list into the navigation menu. When a user hovers over a navigation letter in the menu a submenu appears containing all of the items from the list that start with that letter. The items in the submenu are arranged in nicely balanced columns. If the list was an ordered (OL) list, numbering starts at 1 for each letter and is maintained across the columns (top to bottom, left to right) for that letter. There are options to control the number of columns and the 'gutter' space between them, among other things. The HTML generated by the plugin is designed with CSS styling in mind and a starter css file is included to help implement the plugin. We tuned this plugin for speed and tested it in FF 3.x (Win/Mac), IE 6/7/8rc, Opera (latest), Safari (Mac 3.2.1, Win 4beta) and Google Chrome (Win) using jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 (1.3.2 is faster, probably because of sizzle). This is great plugin for big product lists, address books, contact lists, etc. It makes a hard to navigate plain old list into something really compact and very easy to visually skim that's only visible when you need it. Full info: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx Demos: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/demos/current/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx This project grew out of the jquery listnav plugin that we released in late 2008. We'll be releasing a new rev of that today, too. Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy the plugin! Thanks, Jack twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ihwy_jack
[jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy
Hot damn... Just saw this plugin, and this is fantastically done! Kudos to you and your team. andy _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jack Killpatrick Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:36 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy Thanks, glad you like it. 3000 is a heap: the main bottleneck I found is IE's slow javascript capabilities. I spent a lot of time tuning it to work with IE, but the other browsers just totally smoke it. I haven't tried 3000 nodes, though. Let me know how it goes. Even if the speed is OK, though, that's like ~100+ items per submenu, which would make for a pretty 'tall' menu, I suspect (part of which might go off the bottom of the view port, depending on number of cols, font sizes and height of each list item). You might want to check out the listnav plugin, which keeps the list on the page, rather than putting it into a menu, too. I'll be announcing a new rev of that shortly, but it's up: http://www.ihwy.com/labs/jquery-listnav-plugin.aspx Thanks, Jack brian wrote: Very nice. I just recently put together letter-based navigation for an app, though each "letter request" uses ajax to fetch the appropriate results. The complete set, though, is something over 3000 items and growing. All the same, I think I'll write a quick script to dump everything to listmenu and see what the performance is like. Nice work! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Killpatrick <mailto:j...@ihwy.com> wrote: Hi All, Today we released the iHwy listmenu plugin, which allows you to convert a basic 'list' of HTML elements (UL, OL or any set of child elements) into a snazzy dropdown menu with letter-based navigation (ie: A | B | C | etc). The plugin is very easy to use. In most cases all you will have to do is create the list of elements and then use one line of jQuery code to convert the list into the navigation menu. When a user hovers over a navigation letter in the menu a submenu appears containing all of the items from the list that start with that letter. The items in the submenu are arranged in nicely balanced columns. If the list was an ordered (OL) list, numbering starts at 1 for each letter and is maintained across the columns (top to bottom, left to right) for that letter. There are options to control the number of columns and the 'gutter' space between them, among other things. The HTML generated by the plugin is designed with CSS styling in mind and a starter css file is included to help implement the plugin. We tuned this plugin for speed and tested it in FF 3.x (Win/Mac), IE 6/7/8rc, Opera (latest), Safari (Mac 3.2.1, Win 4beta) and Google Chrome (Win) using jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 (1.3.2 is faster, probably because of sizzle). This is great plugin for big product lists, address books, contact lists, etc. It makes a hard to navigate plain old list into something really compact and very easy to visually skim that's only visible when you need it. Full info: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx Demos: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/demos/current/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx This project grew out of the jquery listnav plugin that we released in late 2008. We'll be releasing a new rev of that today, too. Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy the plugin! Thanks, Jack twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ihwy_jack
[jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy
Thanks, glad you like it. 3000 is a heap: the main bottleneck I found is IE's slow javascript capabilities. I spent a lot of time tuning it to work with IE, but the other browsers just totally smoke it. I haven't tried 3000 nodes, though. Let me know how it goes. Even if the speed is OK, though, that's like ~100+ items per submenu, which would make for a pretty 'tall' menu, I suspect (part of which might go off the bottom of the view port, depending on number of cols, font sizes and height of each list item). You might want to check out the listnav plugin, which keeps the list on the page, rather than putting it into a menu, too. I'll be announcing a new rev of that shortly, but it's up: http://www.ihwy.com/labs/jquery-listnav-plugin.aspx Thanks, Jack brian wrote: Very nice. I just recently put together letter-based navigation for an app, though each "letter request" uses ajax to fetch the appropriate results. The complete set, though, is something over 3000 items and growing. All the same, I think I'll write a quick script to dump everything to listmenu and see what the performance is like. Nice work! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Killpatrick wrote: Hi All, Today we released the iHwy listmenu plugin, which allows you to convert a basic 'list' of HTML elements (UL, OL or any set of child elements) into a snazzy dropdown menu with letter-based navigation (ie: A | B | C | etc). The plugin is very easy to use. In most cases all you will have to do is create the list of elements and then use one line of jQuery code to convert the list into the navigation menu. When a user hovers over a navigation letter in the menu a submenu appears containing all of the items from the list that start with that letter. The items in the submenu are arranged in nicely balanced columns. If the list was an ordered (OL) list, numbering starts at 1 for each letter and is maintained across the columns (top to bottom, left to right) for that letter. There are options to control the number of columns and the 'gutter' space between them, among other things. The HTML generated by the plugin is designed with CSS styling in mind and a starter css file is included to help implement the plugin. We tuned this plugin for speed and tested it in FF 3.x (Win/Mac), IE 6/7/8rc, Opera (latest), Safari (Mac 3.2.1, Win 4beta) and Google Chrome (Win) using jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 (1.3.2 is faster, probably because of sizzle). This is great plugin for big product lists, address books, contact lists, etc. It makes a hard to navigate plain old list into something really compact and very easy to visually skim that's only visible when you need it. Full info: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx Demos: http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/demos/current/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx This project grew out of the jquery listnav plugin that we released in late 2008. We'll be releasing a new rev of that today, too. Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy the plugin! Thanks, Jack twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ihwy_jack
[jQuery] Re: ANNOUNCE: jQuery ListMenu plugin 1.0 from iHwy
Very nice. I just recently put together letter-based navigation for an app, though each "letter request" uses ajax to fetch the appropriate results. The complete set, though, is something over 3000 items and growing. All the same, I think I'll write a quick script to dump everything to listmenu and see what the performance is like. Nice work! On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Jack Killpatrick wrote: > > Hi All, > > Today we released the iHwy listmenu plugin, which allows you to convert a > basic 'list' of HTML elements (UL, OL or any set of child elements) into a > snazzy dropdown menu with letter-based navigation (ie: A | B | C | etc). > > The plugin is very easy to use. In most cases all you will have to do is > create the list of elements and then use one line of jQuery code to convert > the list into the navigation menu. When a user hovers over a navigation > letter in the menu a submenu appears containing all of the items from the > list that start with that letter. > > The items in the submenu are arranged in nicely balanced columns. If the > list was an ordered (OL) list, numbering starts at 1 for each letter and is > maintained across the columns (top to bottom, left to right) for that > letter. There are options to control the number of columns and the 'gutter' > space between them, among other things. > > The HTML generated by the plugin is designed with CSS styling in mind and a > starter css file is included to help implement the plugin. > > We tuned this plugin for speed and tested it in FF 3.x (Win/Mac), IE > 6/7/8rc, Opera (latest), Safari (Mac 3.2.1, Win 4beta) and Google Chrome > (Win) using jQuery 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 (1.3.2 is faster, probably because of > sizzle). > > This is great plugin for big product lists, address books, contact lists, > etc. It makes a hard to navigate plain old list into something really > compact and very easy to visually skim that's only visible when you need it. > > Full info: > > http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx > > Demos: > > http://www.ihwy.com/Labs/demos/current/jquery-listmenu-plugin.aspx > > This project grew out of the jquery listnav plugin that we released in late > 2008. We'll be releasing a new rev of that today, too. > > Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy the plugin! > > Thanks, > Jack > > > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ihwy_jack > > >
