[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-22 Thread Mika Tuupola
On Oct 17, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Michael Geary wrote: I click in the middle of the screen. A message appears up at the top - where I'm not looking - AND another bouncy message appears at the BOTTOM of the screen, so it tries to draw my eye in two directions at once. I agree place of message

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-18 Thread Guy Fraser
Michael Geary wrote: > 1) It displays messages at the top and bottom of the screen at the same > time, fighting for your attention - and the less important message - the one > at the bottom - is more eye-catching because of the animation. > Yeah - it would be nice if it the message log was tur

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-18 Thread Michael Geary
I think this kind of approach is a great idea, but this implementation has serious usability problems: 1) It displays messages at the top and bottom of the screen at the same time, fighting for your attention - and the less important message - the one at the bottom - is more eye-catching because

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-18 Thread Pyrolupus
I'm thinking of this as a drop-in for alert() messages, and we already have no say where alert() places its dialog. Impromptu, mentioned earlier in this thread, does a great job of improving the basic JavaScript dialogs, already, and I'm thinking of supplementing those dialogs with these "Humaniz

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Sean Catchpole
Very Cool. ~Sean

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread SterlingK
That's actually pretty cool. I like it. With regards to Sean O, I gotta say I'm really getting to the end of caring too much about ie6 anymore - it's been long enough and makes us miss out on too many fun apps like this.

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Michael Geary
> http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2007/10/15/humanized-messages-for-jquery/ Ugh. Am I the only one who doesn't like this user interface at all? I click in the middle of the screen. A message appears up at the top - where I'm not looking - AND another bouncy message appears at the BOTTOM of the

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
:47 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages I think the cool thing about it is how it fades out on mousemove. It's less obtrusive than the usual native browser alert popup. And, having a log of messages could be useful in some implementations I su

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Josh Nathanson
f Rick Faircloth Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:53 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages It's an interesting app, but I'm not sure what the practical applications may be. ??? Rick From: jquery-en@googlegroups.co

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Sean O
Looks great in FF, but is hosed in IE6. Too bad, it would make a great 'update confirmation' for a few of my web apps. I do like the Humanized site, which served as the inspiration for this... ___ SEAN O http://www.sean-o.com Jeferson Koslowski wrote: > > Found a new jquery plugin: > ht

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Whatever. please share with us some of your visions, Andy. :o) From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Matthews Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:55 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages That&#

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Andy Matthews
That's only because you're just not visionary enough Rick. :) _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Faircloth Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 8:53 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
It's an interesting app, but I'm not sure what the practical applications may be. ??? Rick From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Matthews Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:12 AM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery]

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Andy Matthews
That's fairly nice. I like the message log at the bottom. Nice touch. _ From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeferson Koslowski Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:09 PM To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com Subject: [jQuery] [NEWS] Humanized Messages Found a n

[jQuery] Re: [NEWS] Humanized Messages

2007-10-17 Thread Mika Tuupola
On Oct 17, 2007, at 1:09 AM, Jeferson Koslowski wrote: Found a new jquery plugin: http://binarybonsai.com/archives/ 2007/10/15/humanized-messages-for-jquery/ From the authors blog: "(...) It's simply a large and translucent message that's displayed over the contents of your screen. (...)"