Oh, that's very interesting! Thank you, Xavier!
Hum... maybe I will have a jQuery-only version after all! ;-)
Sean
xavier dutoit wrote:
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> Looks promising...
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>> Other feature ideas I find interesting are:
>> - Allowing users to specify the height of their element, or the columns,
>> and
>> then paginate the text (I'd include links/buttons that allow you to page
>> through the text). This would be good so that your columns don't get so
>> tall that the user has to scroll up and down to read the text
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> That's a key usability requirement indeed.
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>> Now that I think about it some more, perhaps it is a good idea to
>> integrate
>> this into jQuery, because users can apply the behavior to elements of
>> their
>> choosing. However, having users specify column options in a Javascript
>> call
>> seems a little awkward (e.g. $(".MyColumnedElts").columns({width:
>> "250px",
>> gap: "15px"});). What do you think? I'd do it all with CSS, but
>> Firefox/Mozilla seems to remove CSS attributes that it doesn't apply;
>> originally, this library did use CSS (e.g. "column-width: 250px;"), but
>> when
>> I iterated my elements in Firefox, they were gone.
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> I like the idea of having that in the css as well. Have a look at the
> metadata plugin, the syntaxt is
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> class=" {col-width: '250px'}
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> (the plugin takes care of the parsing, of course)
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> X+
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