On 28.05.2010, at 21:31, Chris Hostetter wrote: > > : Perhaps you could show the 'nr of items left' as a tooltip of sorts when the > : user actually drags the slider. > > Years ago, when we were first working on building Solr, a coworker of mind > suggested using double bar sliders (ie: pick a range using a min and a > max) for all numeric facets and putting "sparklines" above them to give > the user a visual indication of the "spread" of documents across the > numeric spectrum. > > it wsa a little more complicated then anything we needed -- and seemed > like a real pain in hte ass to implement. i still don't know of anyone > doing anything like that, but it's definitley an interesting idea. > > The hard part is really just deciding what "quantum" interval you want > to use along the xaxis to decide how to count the docs for the y axis. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline > http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR
kayak.com uses a double slider to handle the flight departure range: http://screencast.com/t/ZjExMTE5 regards, Lukas Kahwe Smith m...@pooteeweet.org
